A hardy annual vegetable grown for its superb, uniform cylindrical button development and long standing ability. An early cropping variety that provides high yields with mild tasting sprouts that can be harvested from September
0.5-1 metres
0.1-0.5 metres
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Grow in fertile, moist but well drained, non-acid soil in full sun. Sow indoors from February or sow direct in March at a depth of 1cm and a distance of 30cm between rows. See vegetable cultivation
Propagate by seed. See sowing vegetable seeds or sowing seeds indoors
No pruning required
May be susceptible to birds, cabbage caterpillars, cabbage gall weevil, cabbage root fly, cabbage stem flea beetle, cabbage whitefly, cutworms, flea beetles, mealy cabbage aphid, slugs and snails, swede midge
May be susceptible to black rot, club root, downy mildew, foot and root rot, leaf spot, white blister