Grow your own Christmas Challenge 2020

[veggiechicken]

Lol will have a look at the list!

Recommendations on red cabbage varieties to grow?

#23 Red cabbage
A late-autumn cultivar (not easy to find!) Granat, Langedijk Red Late 2, Lodero.

[veggiechicken]

On your marks!!

Leeks (variety for mid winter cropping - eg Blauwgroene Winter, Bandit, Toledo).
Sow in modules or seedbed in March or Early April.

Brussels Sprouts (mid-season cultivars eg Trafalgar, Brodie.)
Sow in modules mid -March to mid-April.


Post on here when you sow these and which varieties please.

[Small pumpkin]

Sown This week
Brussel sprouts - Brest
Red cabbage - drumhead
Kale - dwarf green curled

[broadway]

Never grown Christmas spuds will wilko still have them on sale in July or would I have to go to a garden centre or online?

[veggiechicken]

No idea, sorry, Danny.

I've sown 3 varieties of Red Cabbage today - all well past their Sow by dates!

Ruby Ball F1 (I sowed these in 2014 but packet undated)
Negra - undated
Red Drumhead (packed 2012)

If none of these germinate, I'll buy some fresh seed and start again.

[broadway]

Sowed some "Blue De Solaise" leeks a few weeks ago. Will be sowing Red Drumhead cabbage and Groninger sprouts in a day or two.