Rapeseed seed Brassica napus

LATIN NAME: Brassica napus

COMMON NAME: Rapeseed

The rapeseed is the bright yellow field of the cool spring, and the four-petalled flowers cover the crop in the great, golden sheets. The upright, branching, annual or biennial plant carries the blue-green leaves and the clusters of the four-petalled, bright-yellow flowers through the spring, to be followed by the long, narrow pods of the small, round, dark seeds. The seeds have a long record as the oil crop of the cool fields, and the plant is a fine, generous presence of the field and the vegetable garden. It is a plant of the open, sunny, well-drained ground.

Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology

The rapeseed is a fruitful subject of the plant science, and the golden sheets keep showing up in the work on the oilseed crops. The breeding of the rapeseeds for the oil quality has been studied steadily, and it keeps appearing in the studies of the oilseed genetics, the cool-season brassicas and the members of the cabbage family. The blue-green leaves and the upright, branching habit have also made it a fine field plant, and the rapeseed is a regular subject of the work on the golden oil crops of the cool world.

Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications

The rapeseed is a fine, generous plant of the cool field and the vegetable garden. The small, round, dark seeds have a long record as the oil crop of the cool fields, pressed into the mild, golden oil of the kitchen and the salad bowl, and the young leaves come to the table as the tender greens of the spring garden. The bright-yellow flowers cover the fields in the great, golden sheets of the spring, drawing the bees, and the plant is one of the fine choices for the field, the cool vegetable garden and the oilseed plot. It has been written about in the agricultural and the culinary papers for the golden sheets and the long record of the oil, and it is a fine, generous plant of the open, sunny, well-drained garden.

The rapeseed is one of the golden oil crops of the cool fields, and the small, round seeds press into the mild, golden oil. The young leaves come to the table as the tender greens of the spring garden.

To grow the rapeseed from seed, sow the small, round seeds a little under the surface of a pot of fine, free-draining soil, keep the pot in a bright, open spot and water gently, then set the young plants out after the last frosts. The seedlings show themselves within a week and grow on steadily. With the sun and the well-drained ground, the golden sheets will open through the spring.

NAME: Dwarf Essex Rape Kale

SCIENTIFIC NAME: Brassica Napus

COLOR: Green

PLANT SEEDS: Outdoors after frost / Indoors weeks before last frost

HARVEST: 30 Days

PLANT HEIGHT: 12 – 15″

PLANT SPACING: 9 – 12″

LIGHT REQUIREMENTS: Sun

SOIL & WATER PREFERENCES: Average