Tah Tsai is a non-heading Chinese cabbage that looks like endive or escarole. Cut the entire plant at ground line when the heads are compact and firm. Harvest before the seedstalks form in early summer and before hard freezing temperatures in the fall. Instead, it sends up an early seedstalk. A. Chinese cabbage quickly goes to seed during warm summer days.
Dry weather accelerates the process.
For best results, choose early varieties, start plants in individual containers and transplant after the last hard frost in the spring. Late spring-seeded Chinese cabbage will also go to seed. A. Chinese cabbage describes several greens which differ considerably. Like cabbage, they are cool-season crops and bolt or go to seed in long days of late spring and summer. They grow best as a fall or early winter crop in most areas of Arkansas.