Vegetable
Jade Cross
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Jade Cross is an early hybrid Brussels sprout known for compact plants and relatively quick buttoning—useful where seasons are short. Buttons are green and solid when grown cool; flavour is standard modern hybrid mild-brassica. Home gardeners with limited frost windows lean on early types like this. Harvest early for tender small sprouts; roast or steam. Not the latest midwinter standing type. Space well for air flow against disease.
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Characteristics
Preparations
Early Harvest RoastHome HybridQuick CropShort Season GardenSteam Small
Traits
CompactCompact PlantEarlyEarly HybridShort SeasonShort Season FitSolidSolid Green Buttons
History
JP
Jade Cross hybrid sprouts were developed and later widely distributed.
US
American gardeners used Jade Cross for earlier sprout crops.
Jade Cross remained a catalogue early hybrid reference.
Short-season growers still sought Jade Cross-type early hybrids.