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'Rosé' Pink Cabbage Variety
'Rosé' cabbage was bred by Dr. Phil Griffiths at Cornell University and as you can see right here with these two heads, it's a pink cabbage. It's intermediate between a green and a red.
A few things to note about this. Green cabbages, particularly in hot weather, tend to have sweeter, more juicy flavor than red cabbages. Red cabbages in the summer can be a little dry and can be a little strong but Rosé, when it's grown in the summer or even in the fall, has more of a green cabbage flavor than a red cabbage would.
What's good about that is it makes ‘Rosé’ really good for fresh use such as slaws or salads. Also we've cooked it in wedges and grilled it on a cookie sheet like you might roast other vegetables. It's really good that way.
It's nice stir-fried. It really can be cooked any way you would cook another cabbage.
It makes a particularly nice kraut. When you make kraut out of ‘Rosé’, it tends to have this really beautiful pink color and it'll hold that pink color for quite a while and the kraut itself has a really good flavor.
A couple other things of note. The heads can vary from round to oval as you can see in these two examples here. These are heads I cut ahead of time. We got some of them to look at here. And you can see these couple of heads are a little bit oval. This one's a little oval. And then these ones are round. So this is really an accurate representation of what you would expect to get in a crop of these cabbage, that variation.
Now we'll harvest the plant. Look how pretty that is.
Here's the cabbage with a little bit of the wrapper leaf on it. This is an oval shaped head. I'll take a few more of these off here. The further you go into the head, the pinker it'll get.
Now I'm going to cut a head so that you can see what the interior looks like when it's cut. It's really pretty on the inside as well as the outside.
Another thing, it has intermediate resistance to black rot. If black rot is a problem where you live and grow your cabbage, this is a good choice for that.
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