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cabbage Cabbage Brassica oleracea

How to sow cabbage: Direct seed indoors, transplant seedlings outside after hardening off.

Sun requirement for cabbage: Plant in Full Sun

Cabbage has been planted 33 times by Growstuff members.

Cabbage is a member of the Brassica family and related to kale, broccoli, brussels sprouts, and cauliflower. It's dense, layered heads grow on stalks and are surrounded by looser outer leaves. It's leaves can be green, white, or purple in color, and smooth or crinkly in texture. Depending on the variety, the head can be round, oblong, or flat. Cabbage prefers cooler temperatures and is best planted in the spring or fall.

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Predictions

Annual

living and reproducing in a single year or less

Median lifespan

18 weeks

First harvest expected

26 weeks after planting

Last harvest expected

30 weeks after planting

Height

30cm

Spread

40cm

Row Spacing

60cm

Companions

blue lake bean blue lake bean cumin

Photos

Cabbage crops

Cabbage plantings

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Double headed cabbage
Double headed cabbage
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Cabbage harvests

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Sunniness

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Varieties

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choy sum

Brassica rapa var. parachinensis
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January king cabbage

Brassica oleracea var. sabauda
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kohlrabi

Brassica oleracea (gongylodes)
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red cabbage

Brassica oleracea Capitata group
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Savoy cabbage

Brassica oleracea var. sabauda

Crop Map

Only plantings by members who have set their locations are shown on this map.

What people are saying about cabbages

In a Pickling Pickle

by CloCkWeRX,

This year I accidentally produced approximately 6 billion cabbages. This immediately lead to problems, as not wanting to waste anything and reading that all parts are edible, I set about home canning, freezing and doing about every variation of stuffing something into a cabbage…

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pandemic baking - use for those eggshells

by shiny,

There's so much baking going on here, stuck at home under the nationwide pandemic lockdown – and when we can get eggs we end up with many eggshells. These can be crushed and placed around the base of brassica like cabbage and broccoli. Snails and slugs don't …

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The nets are up

by shiny,

Due to the pandemic lockdown, I can't go to the hardware store to get things. I've been in semi-isolation since the start of march, and we've been in nationwide lockdown since last week.

I needed to set up the nets to keep out the white butterfly. I've had to be creative and i've had to recycl…

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Planting outdoors & fruit trees

by maco,

Today I transplanted the cabbage and onion seedlings outside and planted seeds for: arugula, garlic (well, cloves, not seeds–forced in the fridge), mesclun salad mix, kale, cauliflower, and …

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Getting ready for spring!

by maco,

I've got seeds either on-hand or ordered for just about everything I'm starting from seed this year. I've been working out what I want to plant, and this is the plan I've come up with for the 72 square feet of my backyard raised beds:

![garden plan](http://mackenzie.morgan.name/tmp/garden_plan…

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