Reply To: Cabbages Hearting and Calabrese forming tight flowers

[Karen]

Hey Charles,

I grew 10 varieties of cabbages… I checked and it´s these varieties that are not or forming rather lose heads (sparse leaves)

Filderkraut from a common countrywide brand Kiepenkerl (have sowed some in May from Bingenheim)
Rodynda (Bingenheim) (have sowed some again in May too) red variety
Red Lodero F1 (King Seeds) Red pointed variety
Tinty F1 (King Seeds) red pointed variety

Hey Don, you may be right… my cabbages were planted rather closely, about 30-35cm… moreover we had very little rain. The heads from all the cabbages are rather uneven. Some rather big, medium and tiny. Oddly, the Red Lodero have more space as they are growing on the outer side of the bed of cabbages. I have also removed the lower yellowing leaves and hopefully they will receive more rain. (Don, I giggled when I read you wrote you hate calabrese… Am guessing it´s similar to hating perhaps eating broccoli… or did you mean just growing them…lol)

Will try to allocate more space (40-45cm) for the next batch and see how it goes.

Ok Charles, I have sowed some F1 Calabrese just last week. Fingers crossed.