spring cabbage at last

My greyhounds have done excellently, as they did last year, and the year before. A nice taste too..

After a slow start, several rot losses, a battering from the usual suspects and a month of rather dry and too hot weather, my round/spring/primo cabbages have made a comeback I thought they wouldn't make.  Which is more than I can say for the cauli and calabrese. I think those two might well be the brassicas to get the chop next year. Too much useless growth with little quality eating for the space, netting and nutrients allotted. Give me PSB every time.

Quote from: mumofstig on August 02, 2013, 08:21

Quote from: devonbarmygardener on July 28, 2013, 15:34

That's a darned good cabbage

That looks great, I agree  but unless you have a huge family, what is the point?

Is it just bragging rights 

MOS do you not love the fact that these huge cabbage can feed a family for a week. My reds usually get to this size almost by accident, i forget to look at them and then when i do they have taken over. I made 50 jars of pickled red cabbage from one plant, that i find is just comical and amazing especially when we grew it.

Have you used it all yet before this year's is ready?

Huge brassicas is a man thing    I like my cabbages compact!  I don't want to be eating it for a month.


My mate grew some humungous cabbages even after his wife had threatened him    He asked me if I could offload them as his wife would go nuts if he took yet more giant cabbages home. We took them into town and sold all but two to the Chinese takeaway and the remaining two to a woman waiting at the bus stop. What she did with them once she got off the bus I would have liked to have witnessed

I love Hispi's and the very small savoy "Samantha".

Get the seed packets out and get swotting up. I dug mine out yesterday and found Pixie and Hispi 

The Hispi will be sown in October in a tray and transplanted to the cold frame in Jan to crop in spring. Well, that's the plan

Quote from: Sweetpea C on August 08, 2013, 09:29

So, is now the time to sow spring cabbages? I was going to put them in my first early beds but start them off in modules first ....have I got a clue or not?!

Yes, now is the time to sow spring cabbage such as April or Durham Early in modules. Transplant outside as beds free up, or into pots if they outgrow the modules before the beds are free

Thanks Mum.....I'll do it in about an hour when I get home :-)

When do the butterflies give up?  I sowed some cabbage and left the modules unprotected and the baby plants turned into skeletons.  I guess I thought they wouldn't notice such little plants.  Do they need fine net even in sept/oct?