With time running out to donate seeds, the cabbage grex that I signed up to steward still needs more donations. Homegrown seeds are the best, of course (particularly if they have been allowed to cross freely) but for this first year I would be happy to receive donations of left-over commercial seeds so long as they are open-pollenated, particularly of more unusual or rare varieties.
The only cabbages that ever put on a head for me (zone 5 2,500ft) were a red cabbage that came in the GTS Fukuoka mix! I’m overwintering a couple to make lots of seed next year, so I’m on it, alas a year behind schedule.
Whoever put that red cabbage seed in the Fukuoka mix, please do it again And all other cabbage growers, have a heart for us cabbage-challenged folks and send some of your good genetics our way
Sounds great! I’m glad to hear that you’ve got them in the ground.
That’s sort of the problem with cabbage and the other biennials; there is a longer lag between planting or seed harvest. I have six or seven varieties in the ground for seed next year.
I am in that category. been here 13years and have yet to get a cabbage to grow.
I can send 20 grams of golden acre. Are you aware of that variety in your mix already?
Also, this has got me thinking about planting more cabbage. I was thinking about planting some this weekend. Our average first frost is mid November. Does anyone have experience planting cabbage so late in a climate with mild frosts? I am in zone 8a or 8b.
I have never grown cabbages until now. I guess these are cabbages of some unknown variety. I planted a bunch of seeds when it was really hot maybe 6 weeks ago. This is all that came up for me on cabbages as far as I am aware.
Since this is all that came up in the heat, I suppose these are special in some way and will hopefully get seeds next year.
Hi Austin,
Thanks for the offer, but I already have lots of Golden Acre seeds; I bought a bunch a couple of years ago and was going to ad some to the mix. it is a nice variety for early cabbages here, though it struggles in the Fall.
And yes, those plants look like cabbages!
In the maritime PNW, classic cabbage-overwintering territory, though few OP cultivars exist to handle our combination of wet and cold, we typically seed overwintering cabbage mid-June. For transplanting the final couple of weeks of July. In climes far more northern than us (the UK) they get at it notably earlier.
Yes, I start cabbage in October, zone 10 Arizona. Seeds dont appear until late spring as temperature rise above 95 degrees.