Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: Deborah1 on May 05, 2021, 12:02
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I would be interested to know opinions on the best cabbage to grow for summer and winter coleslaw. They don’t need to be monsters - although I’m often not successful so maybe if a monster sized one was puny that’d be ok too ;) Thanks in advance! I have seed of Kalibos, Primo and Langedjiker but would like recommendations of other/better.
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For years, I've started with Hispi for early sowings and followed on with Minicole, though seed for both is getting harder to find each year :(
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I'm with mum for Minicole, plus we also use plenty of Cabbice which are slightly bigger. I've also grown Langedijker which are very good, but much larger.
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Kalibos is one of my favourites and I grow it every year. Not too large and always eaten as a salad veg in our house.
I also grew Sarmarsh last year and am again this year. It is a Japanese style flat cabbage and does get fairly large. Really sweet and juicy for eating raw. I made lots of shredded salads with herbs from the garden and a simple dressing, plus coleslaw. No trouble here eating it all :)
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I have had great success with Red Drumhead if you don't mind the colour. Nice for coleslaw with plenty of hearty flesh and good steamed / boiled too; we don't eat much cabbage so its good for us.
Wayne
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Red rodeo or Primo do a good job for me.
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Excellent. Thanks everyone!