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    Cabbage

    I may regret asking this
    I'm after recommendations on varieties.
    It's one crop I've never experimented with! I always grow red drumhead, savoy ( standard, summer type I think ) and golden acre.
    Don't get me wrong they are all very good varieties and I'm going to take some persuading to try something new, but I feel I should.
    Is there anything else I should be considering as well as or instead of ?
    I was wondering about a winter variety. I'll still have sprouts in the ground so why not cabbage as well.

    Before anyone suggests I grow 52 varieties so I can pick a different one every week all year round...............NO
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    "Tundra" is a very frost hardy cabbage, sown April to May stands well over winter for a solid heart

    "Duncan" is another reliable cropper, again stands well over winter to provide nice fresh greens come spring

    And two I keep threatening to try have a stab at and have rave reviews are "Kilaxy" and "Marabel" maybe this year?
    "Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad"

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    • #3
      After some rather poor brussels last year, I have a hankering for some winter cabbage too, I only grew golden acre primo, though even as summer cabbages, there's still 3 small ones frozen into the ground.

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      • #4
        Oh and "Offernham 2" is another I've grown, and a good allrounder for both summer and winter!
        "Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad"

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Small pumpkin View Post
          Before anyone suggests I grow 52 varieties so I can pick a different one every week all year round...............NO
          Is that a Challenge??
          Its sow a different one every month of the year - that's simple!!
          Now name a Cabbage beginning with A...........................



          VC grabs her coat......................

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          • #6
            "Autumn Queen" n I ain't going there!!!!!!! ...................
            "Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad"

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            • #7
              Here you go VC

              Alaska
              Bourbon
              Candisa
              Duncan
              Excel
              Filderkraut
              Greyhound
              Holland winter white
              I
              January King
              Kilaxy
              Lodero
              Marabel
              Nantais hatif late summer early autumn
              Ormskirk
              Picador
              Quintal de alsace large winter white
              Ruby
              Sweetie
              Tundra
              U
              Vertus
              Winter Jewel
              X
              Y
              Z

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              • #8
                Duncan is a variety I have grown through winter which seems to do well at my friend's. I grow Hispi in the summer, which seems to be fashoinable at the moment as I noticed it got several mentions on Masterchef this year as part of various dishes - "Hispi cabbage" rather than just "cabbage".
                A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP. - Leonard Nimoy

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                • #9
                  Very good alphabet, SP.
                  I have cabbages that can be sown each month from January - Sept - but stuck on Oct, Nov & Dec. Just have to stretch their sowing dates a little.

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                  • #10
                    If you want a big....and I mean big cabbage, try Brigadier

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                    • #11
                      Just read that a good cabbage to sow now is Golden Acre Primo for early cabbages in April. I know its already been mentioned but don't know whether sow them now? My packet says sow Feb - May & harvest June - October.
                      I'll start a few in Leaves week (22nd Jan)

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                      • #12
                        I started some in mid December in a cold greenhouse, all up and just getting their first leaves

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                        • #13
                          I may have to join you in the early cabbage sowing

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Small pumpkin View Post
                            Here you go VC

                            Alaska
                            Bourbon
                            Candisa
                            Duncan
                            Excel
                            Filderkraut
                            Greyhound
                            Holland winter white
                            I
                            January King
                            Kilaxy
                            Lodero
                            Marabel
                            Nantais hatif late summer early autumn
                            Ormskirk
                            Picador
                            Quintal de alsace large winter white
                            Ruby
                            Sweetie
                            Tundra
                            U
                            Vertus
                            Winter Jewel
                            X
                            Y
                            Z
                            From the list you have posted I can highly recommend January King, Duncan, Greyhound, Ruby and Tundra all of which I have grown and were lovely!

                            And adding to the wanna try wish list would be.......Holland winter white and Filderkraut

                            Coz these two have rave ratings too!

                            But am walking toward the light and away from this thread, as my plot would just be a sea of sprouts n cabbages! ........................
                            "Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad"

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Small pumpkin View Post
                              Here you go VC

                              Alaska
                              Bourbon
                              Candisa
                              Duncan
                              Excel
                              Filderkraut
                              Greyhound
                              Holland winter white
                              I
                              January King
                              Kilaxy
                              Lodero
                              Marabel
                              Nantais hatif late summer early autumn
                              Ormskirk
                              Picador
                              Quintal de alsace large winter white
                              Ruby
                              Sweetie
                              Tundra
                              U
                              Vertus
                              Winter Jewel
                              X
                              Y
                              Z
                              I can fill in two of those gaps with Czech varieties - Unikat F1 and Zora.

                              Oh, there's a Slovak summer cabbage called Inter. Now we just need X and Y.
                              Last edited by Zelenina; 09-01-2018, 07:11 PM. Reason: More cabbages

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