'Mastergreen' Spring Cabbage Plants
Early harvesting cabbage for summer
Grown by Josh
South Downs National Park
Perfectly happy plants, or your money back
Specialist overnight plant delivery
The highlights
- Full hardy and disease resistant
- Sweet flavoured cabbage ideal for summer dishes - steam, saute or shred
- Easy to grow in veg plots or raised beds
- Harvest from July to September
Description
- An impressive looking and easy to grow spring cabbage with dark green leaves, packed with nutrients including vitamins A, C and K
- Sweet and tasty flavour with a myriad of uses - shred it into salads and stir fries, stuff it with couscous, make kimchi or steam as a side dish
- Best grown in open ground, Master Green is suitable for allotment growing, raised beds or borders
- You will receive a strip of eight healthy young plants ready to grow on
- Fully hardy and disease resistant
- Plant out after the first frosts and harvest from July to September
- Premium plants grown by vegetable experts on a family run farm in Lancashire and sent to you at the best possible time for planting
- Growing your own gives you healthy, fresh produce with a lower carbon plantprint than anything you can buy from a shop
- Easy to grow and care for - plant in a sunny raised bed or border and wait for the crops to roll in. You should see your first cabbage within 10-15 weeks
What To Expect
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How To Grow
Good pest and disease resistance
Our vegetable plug plants are bred for good pest and disease resistance, but may still be susceptible to common problems. Like all brassicas, spring cabbage can suffer from cabbage root fly, club root, caterpillars or cabbage whitefly. It's a good idea to cover your brassicas with a horticultural fleece to keep off pests and to ensure that your soil is well drained and not too acidic, to prevent club root. If this does occur, (signs include the leaves wilting and turning purple, with swollen/bulbous roots below ground) you should avoid planting brassicas in that bed for the next four years. If you find a plant with club root, rip it up and burn it/dispose in the landfill bin.
Water regularly
When you first plant your cabbages give them a good water, then keep the soil consistently moist. Usually until June the UK rain will take care of that, but if there are any dry spells, you should go out and feel the soil. If the soil is dry to the touch, then give the plant some water.
Full sun
Plant in a sunny spot - can also deal with a little afternoon shade
Any fertile, well-draining soil
Thrives in any well-drained soil. If your soil is particularly clay-heavy and/or often becomes waterlogged then you can improve the drainage by adding in plenty of organic matter such as garden compost as well as some perlite or gravel.
Feed regularly
For the biggest crops, sprinkle some organic fertilizer around the base of the plant, such as worm castings or chicken manure pellets, when planting and once a month after that.
Planting Calendar
- Best time to plant
- Harvest
- Flower
South Downs National Park
Meet Josh
Slow grown veg from the sunny South Downs
Our vegetable plants are sown on a family farm in Lancashire, then nurtured into strong young plants by Josh in the sunny South Downs before they rock up in your garden. By selecting only the strongest and tastiest varieties, Josh makes sure you get a headstart on your plot, with impressive crops and no waste.
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Our plants are grown in the UK
Specialist UK growers we know and trust grow your plants the traditional way, with organic fertiliser and biological pest control. They pick only the healthiest plants for you, professionally pruning them so that they’ll grow strong and well shaped.
Our plants are delivered overnight
Your plants are sent to you fresh from the field in our plastic free box that’s specially designed to hold them tight, then securely delivered by specialist plant couriers - straight from the grower to your garden within 24 hours.
We're here to help at every step
We want your plants to have a long and healthy life. Expect easy-to-follow grow guides and videos devised by our team of experts.
Perfect plants, guaranteed
We’re confident that you’ll be delighted with your new plants. Need help? Alice and her team are here to guarantee you’re perfectly happy.
Allotment in a Box
Planting brassicas
Join Kathy Slack on her veg patch as she demonstrates the best way to grow your new brassica plants with her expert tips.
Allotment in a Box
Harvesting cabbage
We check in with Kathy Slack at the allotment to hear her tips on growing and harvesting cabbage.
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When will I get my plants?
The delivery timescale for each plant is on the web page (near the 'add to basket's button). You'll receive a dispatch email with an exact delivery date once your plants are on their way, so you can get the garden ready.
How will my plants be packed and delivered?
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Where do you deliver?
We deliver to anywhere in Mainland UK for our standard delivery cost. We are able to deliver most plants to Highlands and non UK mainland however this will be at an additional cost. This will be calculated at the checkout. Please note, deliveries to these locations will take longer. Unfortunately, we are not able to deliver to Northern Ireland at present.
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