Vegetable Description: Purple Vienna is standard home garden and market variety with deep purple skin and crisp greenish-white flesh. Mild flesh is great cooked or fresh. Bulbs become fibrous as they mature, so for best quality, harvest at 2 to 2 ½ inches in diameter. Approximately 55 days from sowing to mature bulbs.

Vegetable Botanical Name: Brassica oleracea var. gongylodes

Other Common Names: Early Purple Vienna

Vegetable Duration: Biennial

Vegetable Days to Maturity: 55

Vegetable Seeds Per Oz: 8600

Vegetable Height: 12” to 18”

Vegetable Spacing: 18” to 24”

Vegetable Planting: Direct sow outside in early spring. Can be fall planted. Plant about 6” apart and 1/4“ below soil surface. Rows can be spaced at 18”-24” apart.

Vegetable Seed Saving: Allow seed heads to dry on plants; then remove heads, break them open, and collect seeds. Clean and dry the seeds before storage in cool dry conditions.