Red Cabbage 'Roderick F1' Plants
Crunchy, sweet and colourful
Grown by Josh
South Downs National Park
Perfectly happy plants, or your money back
Specialist overnight plant delivery
The highlights
- Dense, crisp and sweet cabbages ideal for pickling or salads
- Harvest from just 15-20 weeks
- F1 variety for better performance and bigger harvests
- Grow in a sunny border, raised bed or allotment
Description
- One of the most reliable red cabbages you can get, Roderick is a dense, crisp, sweet and earthy treat - it doesn't hurt that it's infinitely insta-worthy
- Packed full of vitamins K and C, red cabbage is perfect for braising, pickling, slaw or to brighten up a salad
- Grow in rows in raised beds, allotments or borders
- Loves a sunny, sheltered spot
- Plant out after the first frosts and harvest the heads as soon as they're your preferred size
- Premium F1 cabbage plants grown 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
- F1 hybrids combine the best qualities of two top performing varieties to produce a plant with improved vigour and bigger crops
- Easy to grow and care for - you should see your first cabbages within 15-20 weeks
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How To Grow
Good pest and disease resistance
Like all brassicas, red cabbage can suffer from cabbage root fly, club root, caterpillars or whitefly. It is recommended that you cover your brassicas with a garden fleece to prevent them being eaten by pests. To prevent club root ensure that your soil is well draining and not too acidic. Club root is caused by a bacterial infection so if it occurs you should not plant brassicas there again for four years. If you find a plant with club root, burn it with fire to prevent it from spreading to the rest of your garden like some kind of Biblical cabbage plague.
Water regularly
Water your cabbage plants deeply - once or twice a week is usually enough, increasing in very hot or dry weather.
Full sun
To plant your red cabbage pick a spot with full sun, receiving around 6-8 hours of sun every day.
Fertile, well drained soil
Brassicas will grow in fertile, well-drained soil (not acidic). If your soil is very sandy or clay heavy, use a mix of three parts quality compost and one part topsoil. For best results, dig in some manure.
Feed monthly
To get the biggest crops sprinkle nitrogen rich organic fertilizers such as worm castings or poultry pellets when you plant them and every 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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All of our plants are grown in specialist nurseries with the highest standards of plant care and sustainability. We guarantee you'll love them as much as we do! Don't just take our word for it - we've got thousands of great reviews on Trustpilot.
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?
We send all of our orders through a courier network designed to handle plants. Specialist equipment ensures that no plants will be damaged during the packing process and every order is carefully finished and checked by plant-loving humans. Your plants will arrive in the most sustainable packaging possible with minimal to no plastic used.
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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