Cabbage 

Companion planting:
Likes: beans, chamomile, celery, coriander, cucumber, dill, marigold, lettuce, marjoram, mint, nasturtiums, onions, peas, potatoes, tomatoes
Dislikes: strawberries

Large Savoy and large Red (late cabbages):
Sow from January to March, harvest May to September
Varieties used:
Mammoth Red Rock (The Lost Seed)
Try:
Savoy King Hybrid (New Gippsland Seeds)

Sugarloaf (spring or overwintering cabbages):
Sow mid-March to mid April, harvest September/October
Also sow in greenhouse in April, then separate seedlings, keep in pots, plant out end of August
Varieties used:
Early Jersey Wakefield (The Lost Seed)
Sugarloaf (Mr.Fothergill’s)

Small Savoy and small Red (early cabbages):
Sow September to February, harvest December to June
Varieties used:
Vertus Savoy (The Lost Seed)
Red Drumhead (The Lost Seed)
Red Acre (The Lost Seed)
Try:
Super Red Hybrid (New Gippsland Seeds)
Red Dutch (Eden Seeds)

Sow four or five seeds in a clump, space clumps at least 60 cm apart. Place late cabbages 100 cm apart. Then gradually thin out seedlings. Thinning should be completed when the best seedling has made three true leaves. Side-dress, but not too much for winter brassica after the end of February. 

All brassica are attacked by the cabbage moth and the cabbage white butterfly. Companion-planting with marigold, dill, celery, sage, oregano helps, also scattering crushed eggshells around the plants. If infestation is heavy spray with Dipel (try mixing in a drop of detergent to help the droplets to cling to the leaves).

We don’t preserve any of the Brassica as we have a steady supply throughout the year.