Vegetables · Cool
Savoy cabbage
Brassicaceae
At a glance
- Plant spacing
- 50 cm
- USDA zones
- 3a–9a
- Frost-sensitive
- no
- Growth duration
- 18 weeks
Which beds suit?
- Sun (prefers)
- full sunAlso okay:partial shade
- Soil (prefers)
- clayAlso okay:loamyraised-bed mix
- Drainage (prefers)
- normal
Seed & start
Pre-culture recommended
Start indoors / cold frame first, transplant into the raised bed later.
Stachi's tip
Savoy cabbage is the toughest cabbage — doesn't freeze out as easily as its white cousin. Harvest extends into winter. Insect netting like all cabbages.
Sowing
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Transplanting
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Harvest
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Good neighbours
No fixed companion partners — easy to mix.
Avoid these neighbours
Good pre-cultures
Stachi has no specific pre-cultures recorded.
Sources
- LLM-Baseline+gpt-5-review
- LLM-Baseline-Intercrop
- LLM-Baseline-2026-05-09 yieldKg
- LLM-Baseline-2026-05-10 family-zehrer
- LLM-Baseline-2026-05-10 sun-soil-drainage