14 Quality Cabbage Varieties [Slideshow]
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Caraflex
Extremely uniform, small heads with good wrapper leaves. Inner leaves are tender, crunchy, and have an excellent, sweet and mild cabbage flavor. Perfect for summer salads, slaws, or cooked dishes. In the UK, they are harvested early in the season, before they have fully headed, and sold as "spring greens". Choose 109G (Organic) or 109 (Nonorganic) seeds. Available from Johnny's Selected Seeds.
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Garnet
This mid-early fresh market red cabbage features healthy foliage and market-leading heat tolerance. Available from Harris Moran.
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Squadron
This highly productive and uniform dual purpose cabbage has excellent internal structure, high productivity and recovery, long storage ability and is perfect for boxes or bags. Available from Harris Moran.
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Thunderhead
This fresh market blue-green cabbage has a uniform frame with a very compact, dense head and intermediate resistance to Black Rot and Thrips. Available from Harris Moran.
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Ruby Queen
Ruby Queen, a hybrid red cabbage, matures 75 to 80 days after transplanting and has good size potential. Vigorous plants have an upright habit producing round, bright purplish-red heads. Recommended harvest season is fall to winter. Ruby Queen has good heat and cold tolerance and has intermediate resistance to black rot. Available from American Takii.
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SuperElite
SuperElite is a fancy variety with thick, tough, high, tight wrappers, making it a great shipping cabbage. It holds its quality in the field and has excellent internal quality with a very sweet flavor. It is a popular and widely adapted variety with resistance to Fusarium Yellows, tip burn, and black speck. SuperElite matures in 85 days. Available from Reed's Seeds.
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SuperStar
SuperStar is a high-quality fresh market hybrid green cabbage. It has excellent holding ability in the field and after harvest. This cabbage is adapted from Florida to Canada, has excellent flavor and is Fusarium Yellows resistant. It matures in 85-88 days. Available from Reed's Seeds.
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Grand Vantage
Grand Vantage is a uniform, very dense, dark-green, hybrid cabbage with excellent holding ability. It has a good disease package, with resistance to Fusarium Yellows and tolerance to thrips and tip burn. Grand Vantage matures in 78 days, making it an excellent companion variety with SuperStar. Available from Reed's Seeds.
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Storage Hybrid #4
Growers are now harvesting Storage Hybrid #4 in 85 to 90 days for fresh market. Solid, upright heads, with very fancy, tough, waxy wrappers, make this a great shipper with an excellent shelf life. For best storage results, this variety should be planted later in the season. For storage purposes, Storage Hybrid #4 matures in 105 days. Available from Reed's Seeds.
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SC100
SC100 is a very uniform savoy with solid heads that mature in 100 days. It is finely savoyed, has a nice dark color, and does well for fresh market and storage. Available from Reed's Seeds.
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Super Red 80
Super Red 80 is a mid-season, uniform, medium height variety with fancy, thick, tough wrappers. It has excellent uniformity and round solid heads with a nice dark color. This variety holds very well in the field, giving some flexibility in harvesting. This variety matures in 80 days. Available from Reed's Seeds.
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Super Red 115
Super Red 115 is our first yellows-resistant storage red hybrid cabbage. It has upright plants, very good vigor, very good yield, dark-red color, and is thrips tolerant. This variety matures in 115 days. Available from Reed's Seeds.
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Thunderhead
Thunderhead is a uniform, dark-green, fresh market cabbage. It has excellent holding ability and stays very clean in the field. Thunderhead has a good disease package with yellows resistance and high tolerance to black rot and thrips. Thunderhead matures in 74 days. Available from Reed's Seeds.
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SuperStor 112
SuperStor 112 is a high-yielding, clean-growing storage variety with a vigorous upright growth habit. It should be planted a little earlier for best results. It matures in 112 days. Available from Reed's Seeds.
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Caraflex
Garnet
Squadron
Thunderhead
Ruby Queen
SuperElite
SuperStar
Grand Vantage
Storage Hybrid #4
SC100
Super Red 80
Super Red 115
Thunderhead
SuperStor 112
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Alexander is a former associate editor with American Vegetable Grower® and currently a contributing writer in Denver, CO. See all author stories here.