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Updated: February 20, 2023

Growing Leafy Greens in a Home Garden

Grow leafy greens including kale and collards, mustard greens, turnip greens, and pac choi. They are called leafy greens because the leaves are the part of the plant that is eaten.
Healthy collard greens
Updated: July 22, 2024

Imported Cabbageworm on Vegetables

Large holes in the leaves of cabbage, broccoli, Brussel sprouts, cauliflower, collards, kale, turnip, and radish could be due to feeding by cabbageworms.
Imported cabbage worm with frass
Updated: February 20, 2023

Harlequin Bug on Vegetables

These orange and black bugs are pests on broccoli, cauliflower, and kale.
Two harelquin bugs
Updated: February 20, 2023

Cabbage Looper on Vegetables

Ragged holes in the leaves of cole crops, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, collards, kale, turnips, etc.
Mature cabbage looper larva. Early instars scrape leaf surfaces; later instars chew pprogressively larger holes. Credit: Russ Ottens, University of Georgia, Bugwood.org
Updated: February 20, 2023

Flower Stalks Form or Bolting of Vegetables

An issue in the summer vegetable garden on certain crops is bolting or when crops develop flowers and set seed before the vegetables are ready for harvest.
spinach forming flower stalk