A vigorous cabbage variety that will grow in any free draining soil and stand up until the first hard frost of Autumn. It has an intensely sweet flavour and produces thick, crisp leaves that can be used as an alternative to iceberg lettuce in late Summer and Autumn
0.1-0.5 metres
0.1-0.5 metres
| Season | Stem | Flower | Foliage | Fruit |
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| Spring | ||||
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Grow in fertile, moist but well drained soil in full sun. Sow indoors between March to May and transplant when seedlings have 5-6 true leaves, or sow direct from late March at a depth of 1cm and 23cm between rows. See vegetable cultivation
Propagate by seed. See sowing vegetable seeds
No pruning required
May be susceptible to birds, cabbage caterpillars, cabbage gall weevil, cabbage root fly, cabbage whitefly, cutworms, flea beetle, mealy cabbage aphid, slugs and snails, swede midge
May be susceptible to black rot, club root, downy mildew, foot and root rot, grey mould, leaf spot, white blister