Kohlrabi
Kohlrabi Logo
Kohlrabi Logo: Sowing, planting and harvest calendar
Kohlrabi 'Logo' is a cultivar of Brassica oleracea, in the Gongylodes Group and the cabbage family. It belongs to the same cultivated species as several other cabbages, but its most recognisable part is different: a section of stem thickens above ground. It is therefore neither a turnip nor a swede, whose harvested parts develop differently.‘Logo’ is an early white kohlrabi, used particularly for baby vegetable production in Europe. White refers here to the kohlrabi type with a pale outer covering, rather than a stem that must be pure white. Inside, the flesh is pale. Its appeal concerns a still-tender stem rather than an ever-increasing size. Young specimens suit a different use from giant kohlrabi selected to form much larger stems.The plant stays low, with a habit quite different from a headed cabbage. Leaves on elongated stalks emerge around the swollen part. Their surface can have the waxy, slightly bluish appearance…
