[jimpojimpo]

Hello everybody

I'm very new to all this and i was wondering about spring cabbages.

do you need to buy a certain variety of cabbage to grow for the spring or will any cabbage be a spring cabbage if sowed at the correct time.

my plot has mainly been a building site and was going to sow some spring cabbages just to give something a go really

I've got some seeds called greyhound

any advice would be helpful thank you

[BabbyAnn]

you need a spring cabbage variety - they are winter hardy and come spring, they will not bolt to seed as soon as it starts to warm up.  That is providing we don't have a mild winter followed by a heatwave in early spring ... kind of mucked up things this year 

There are lots of varieties available, the most common ones are April, Wheelers Imperial or Durham Early.

Most important tip - pigeons over winter descend on brassicas so make sure they are well netted and protected 

[jimpojimpo]

thank you ever so much thats brilliant

[viettaclark]

Greyhound is an Autumn cabbage and it's too late to sow. Mine are well established now along with the red cabbage which will stay in over winter..
I forgot to sow the other winter cabbage (Tundra and Savoy) last month but I shall do that this week-end along with psb (purple sprouting broccoli) and fingers crossed it will be ok!
I sow my spring cabbage in late summer/autumn and I've found a smashing French one I grow every year...."Precoce de Louviers" which I get from Real Seeds.
So technically you can have cabbage all year round!!
Yum!