Growing Cabbage

Brassica sp. : Brassicaceae / the mustard or cabbage family

Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
	S	S					S	S
			T	T					T	T

(Best months for growing Cabbage in New Zealand - cool/mountain regions)

S = Plant undercover in seed trays
T = Plant out (transplant) seedlings

Easy to grow. Grow in seed trays, and plant out in 4 weeks. Sow seed at a depth approximately three times the diameter of the seed. Best planted at soil temperatures between 41°F and 64°F. (Show °C/cm)
Space plants: 20 - 30 inches apart
Harvest in 11-15 weeks.
Compatible with (can grow beside): Dwarf (bush) beans, beets, celery, cucumber, onions, marigold, nasturtium, rhubarb, aromatic herbs (sage, dill, chamomile, thyme)
Avoid growing close to: Climbing (pole) beans, tomato, peppers (chili, capsicum), eggplant (aubergine), strawberry, mustard, parsnip

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13 May 23, (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Dwarf grow to 60cm - climbing grow to 1.2-2.4m.
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08 May 23, Anonymous (Australia - sub-tropical climate): A climbing bean could shade cabbage and it would not produce much. Depends where you plant the climbing bean in relation to the sun's position in the sky. Plant tall plants on the southern side of the bed.
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04 Mar 23, Sue (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Which variety of cabbage grows best in qld?
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27 Apr 23, Lee (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Red Dutch, Sugarloaf, Wombok.
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23 Mar 23, Peter Myers (Australia - sub-tropical climate): Copenhagen do well in the subtropics; I have grown them for years. When harvesting, cut below the cabbage, then new smaller cabbages grow from the same root. This year I am trying Primo. I plant seed mid-Feb to mid-Mar, after rain. Transplant a month later. I will be transplanting Primo soon. Got Kale (Blue) out yesterday.
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28 Mar 23, EMMA-LOUISE PARRY (Australia - sub-tropical climate): hello. when do you plant your cabbage seeds please? also what area are you from? im struggling to get cabbage to grow.
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07 Mar 23, (Australia - sub-tropical climate): They will all grow good if looked after. Also depends what you want to do with it.
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06 Mar 23, Rob (Australia - temperate climate): The variety you like eating the most
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08 Feb 23, Ian (Australia - temperate climate): Cabbage and Colliflower can they be grown on tubs in hot house
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19 Jan 23, Theresa (USA - Zone 8a climate): Planting cabbage this weekend hopefully does not get too warm too quick.
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I´m from a farm that grows a lot of cabbage and we observed this aswell in some parts of the arable. We explained it, that the cabbage defines its biggest state at an early point in its life. It seems to depend on how much water is avaiable in that state. So to prevent it from breaking you need to water it in the early stages more than in the later stages. If it has not enough water when it begins to grow it and to much later on it will break.

- Vincent

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