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"Preserving the future,
one seed at a time."
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Cabbage
(Brassica oleracea L.
L. Capitata group)
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Cabbage seed can be direct sown in the garden but this is not the
typical method. Early varieties are started indoors, four to
six weeks prior to your last expected frost date.
Two weeks before transplanting into the garden, the seedlings
should be
hardened off to acclimate the tender plants to the
conditions outdoors.
Late
varieties are planted in summer for fall harvests and in some
areas, allowed to over-winter. (Sampler will sow a 25
foot row and the packet a 100 foot row.) Click here for seed saving information.
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All
Seasons
90 days
Also known as 'Vandegaw',
'Succession' and 'Wisconsin Yellows Resistant,' this variety is
heat resistant, fine-flavored and produces good, hard heads that
are ten inches in diameter, average about 12 pounds in weight, and
are round but flattened on the top. One of the first yellows
resistant varieties, it was
released in 1920.
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Brunswick
70 days
A large drumhead-type
cabbage. It is a cold hardy, late-season variety that is good for
fall/winter harvest and stores very well. 'Brunswick' is and old
German variety dating back to the 18th Century.
It is an excellent market variety that is becoming rare.
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Chinese
Michihli
90 days This is a heading Chinese
cabbage that produces cylindrical heads that are upright, four inches
in diameter and fourteen to twenty four inches in height. The interiors are
self-blanching. Plant in July for a fall crop. This
variety is the most common Chinese cabbage grown in America.
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 Copenhagen
Market
100 days One of the largest early
maturing roundhead varieties. The solid, round heads are six
to eight inches in diameter and average three to four pounds in weight.
Keeps well.
Developed by Hjalmar Hartmann & Co. of Copenhagen, Denmark and first
introduced in 1909. The exact parentage is not known but is
believed to be the old German variety, 'Ditmarscher'.
W.
Atlee Burpee introduced 'Copenhagen Market' into the
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 Danish
Ballhead
110 days 'Danish Ballhead' has been a
standard storage-type variety since it was introduced by
W.
Atlee Burpee in
1887. It has been a dependable variety, resisting bolting
and splitting and keeping until late spring. Produces round,
blue-green, seven to eight inch diameter heads weighing five to
seven
pounds. Adapted to the Northeast and does well in
mountainous areas.
Although
known as 'Danish Ballhead' in North American, it is actually a
short-stemmed strain of the old Danish variety called 'Amager'.
Danish records date 'Amager' as being developed by Dutch colonists,
on the island of the same name, in the fifteenth century.
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Drumhead
100 days
The heads are blue-green in color with good wrapper
leaves, flattened and large. Can reach twelve pounds under ideal
growing conditions.
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 Early Jersey
Wakefield
75 days Introduced into the U.S. by Francis Brill, then living
in New Jersey. Originally grown by Mr. Brill and a few
neighbors, 'Early Jersey Wakefield' began as a natural cross between
'Wakefield' cabbage from England and other varieties being grown in
the area.
According to Mr. Brill,
Peter Henderson was the first to introduce this variety
to the general public in the 1850s.
An
early variety, it is generally grown for a summer harvest but does
over winter well. The plant is short stemmed and yields
conical, seven inch in diameter green heads with a fine tender
flavor.
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 Glory
of Enkhuizen
100 days The heads are blue-green in
color and can reach nine inches in diameter and ten pounds in
weight. It is a good early variety, a good keeper, ideal for
storage, and for kraut.
Developed by N. V. Sluis en Groot's Koninklijke Zaadteelt en
Zaadhandel of Enkhuizen, Netherlands
(an old seed house). The parentage is reportedly two old
German varieties - 'Glόckstadter' and 'Ditmarscher'.
Originally selected in 1899, the seed was simultaneously released in
both Europe and America in 1902. The first company to offer it
in the United States was the J. C. Vaughan's Seed Store, Chicago,
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Golden
Acre
64 days The heads are tightly
folded, solid, five to seven inches in diameter, round, gray-green in
color and weigh three to five pounds. This is not a long standing
variety but is Yellows resistant.
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 Late
Flat Dutch
110 days The flattened oval heads are about seven inches deep by
ten
to twelve inches in diameter. A good keeper, they are one of the best
late fall and early winter cabbages.
The exact origins of this variety will never be known. It is
an old Dutch variety dating as far back as 1846. Some believe it to
be a selection of the old German variety, 'Brunswick'.
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Mammoth Red Rock
(Red Danish)
100 days It is well adapted for most growing conditions and
yields large (four to seven pound), red, solid, round heads that have fine flavor
and keeps well. Great raw, cooked or pickled. Nice deep color.
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Perfection
90 days Savoy-type cabbage with deeply crumpled, dark
green leaves. Very tender with an excellent flavor.
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 Red
Acre
100 days Compact plants with short
stems produce solid, five to seven inches in diameter, round, flattened,
red-purple colored heads weighing two to four pounds. Stands well
and is one of the best varieties for storage. Yellows
resistant.
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