15 Cabbage Varieties You Should Know About

Posted by Growing Produce Staff|Updated: February 24, 2021

Celebrate

Celebrate is a “Cheers” type cabbage with a slightly more compact plant. It features an attractive blue-green head with good wrapping leaves. With the potential to produce large heads, it is uniform, highly resistant to Yellows, and has intermediate resistance to black rot. Celebrate has wide adaptability. Available from American Takii.

Green Lunar

Green Lunar has medium-to late-maturity (approximately 80 days after transplanting). Heads are uniform, oblate in shape, bright green, and late to burst. Head weight is typically 4 pounds. Semi-upright plants have vigorous frames. Green Lunar has high resistance to black rot and Yellows, and it has high tolerance to cold. Fall is the recommended harvest season. Available from American Takii.

Spring Crisp

This Napa-type cabbage is very early maturing, just 63 days after sowing. A hybrid Chinese cabbage, Spring Crisp also is slow to bolt so it holds well in the field. Best suited for harvesting spring to summer, Spring Crisp has intermediate resistance to clubroot. Available from American Takii.

Tropic Giant

This fresh market variety is tolerant to black rot, Xanthomonas, Fusarium yellow, and Pseudomonas and matures in 80 to 90 days. This cabbage is resistant to cracking, heat, cold, humidity, and head deformation. It is slow to bursting and is recommended for early spring sowing, early summer, and fall harvest. Tropic Giant is not recommended for planting in cold weather conditions. Available from Golden Valley Seed. .

Murdoc

Murdoc is a processing cabbage maturing in 83 days. The thinner leaves (typical of pointed head cabbages) of this widely adaptable variety are used to produce a specialty sauerkraut known as “Weisskraut” in northern Europe. Available from Bejo Seeds and Johnny’s Selected Seeds.

Promise

With high tolerance to Fusarium yellows, Promise matures 105 days from transplant. For the fresh and processing markets, this variety is suited for production in the Northeast U.S., Southeast, and Canada. Promise produces dense heads with attractive green color and good field holding with mid-storage potential. Available from American Takii.

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. Available from Sakata Vegetables.

Savoy Faire

Savoy Faire is a new 80 to 85 day fancy hybrid Savoy cabbage with very good vigor, dark-green color, good tip burn tolerance, and an attractive pack. This variety has well-wrapped, nicely rounded heads with good density and a medium-short core.

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 Sakata Vegetables.

Super Elite

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 Sakata Vegetables.

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 Stokes Seeds.

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. Super Red 80 matures in 80 days. Available from Sakata Vegetables.

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 to 88 days. Available from Sakata Vegetables.

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 Sakata Vegetables.

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 Harris Seeds.

Cabbage plants from afar might all look alike, but these cole crops can vary quite a bit from one another.

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