All About Growing Cabbage

By Barbara Pleasant
Published on July 6, 2012
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by Keith Ward
Green, Asian, pointed and red cabbages all make beautiful additions to your garden as well as nutritious options at your table.

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Dependable, nutritious, and delicious raw or cooked, both green and red cabbage are among the most productive cool-season crops. Gardeners growing cabbage in cool climates can grow huge, blue-ribbon heads. Where hot summers divide the cool seasons, fast-maturing varieties do well in spring and again in fall. All types of cabbage are at their best in late fall, after exposure to light frosts.

Types of Cabbage

  • Green cabbage varieties vary in their earliness and mature size. Smaller varieties can be grown at close spacing.
  • Red cabbage provides higher levels of vitamins A and C than other types of cabbage do, and its bright color is always beautiful on the plate.
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