All year Round Cabbages!

The cabbage group of vegetables is so diverse, that it is possible to have fresh cabbage from your garden at any month of the year.

There are Spring Cabbage, Summer Cabbage and also Winter cabbage varieties.

You can also encourage 'cabbage tops'. - See separate article.

Listed below are a range of cabbages suitable for sowing so that you do indeed get cabbages all the year round!

Spring cabbage, should be sown outdoors in late July or early August. You then transplant them where they are to grow in September. Good varieties will include ‘Harbinger’, ‘Durham Early’, and ‘Offenham’. Seed catalogues will have the latest offering of varieties suitable for spring cabbage. They will be ready to crop between March and May.
Summer cabbage You should start to sow these in April and May, then transplanting from May to June. Varieties are suitable for summer cabbage will include ‘Hispi’, ‘Stonehead’, and ‘Minicole’. These will be ready to harvest from July to October.
Winter cabbage, are normally sown in mid - May. They are then transplanted towards the end of June. Good varieties are savoys, ‘January King’, or ‘Celtic’. These will be available for the kitchen from December through to February.

There you are! Cabbage all the year round!