
Vegetables · Cool
White cabbage
Brassicaceae
At a glance
- Plant spacing
- 60 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
White cabbage makes big heads and needs big spacing: 50 cm. Sauerkraut classic, perfect for the preserving-minded. Harvest late summer to late autumn depending on variety.
The plant's year: sowing, transplanting, harvest
Sowing
Transplanting
Harvest
Good neighbours
No fixed companion partners — easy to mix.
Limited evidence. This value is not backed by a specialist source — treat it as a pointer.
Avoid these neighbours
Limited evidence. This value is not backed by a specialist source — treat it as a pointer.
Good pre-cultures
Stachi has no specific pre-cultures recorded.
What comes after White cabbage?
When the bed frees up, the season is usually not over. We worked out what still fits afterwards — with time windows and reasons.
See follow-on crops for White cabbage →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
- Bio-Gärtner – Weisskohl/Kopfkohl [Brassica oleracea var. capitata] (https://bio-gaertner.de/pflanzen/WeisskohlKopfkohl-Rotkohl-Butterkohl-Wirsing/Anbau)
- Sativa Rheinau – Weiss-/Rotkohl (https://www.sativa-rheinau.ch/hausgarten/tipps/kulturblaetter/weiss-rotkohl.html)
Where these figures come from
- Timing
- Traditional recommendation. Rarely studied under controlled conditions — treat it as experience, not law.
- Spacing
- Horticulturally established — consistent across the cited standard works.
- Companion planting
- Limited evidence. This value is not backed by a specialist source — treat it as a pointer.
- Crop rotation
- Limited evidence. This value is not backed by a specialist source — treat it as a pointer.
- Yield
- Limited evidence. This value is not backed by a specialist source — treat it as a pointer.
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 · Bio-Gärtner – Weisskohl/Kopfkohl [Brassica oleracea var. capitata] (https://bio-gaertner.de/pflanzen/WeisskohlKopfkohl-Rotkohl-Butterkohl-Wirsing/Anbau) · Sativa Rheinau – Weiss-/Rotkohl (https://www.sativa-rheinau.ch/hausgarten/tipps/kulturblaetter/weiss-rotkohl.html)
Products mentioned in this post
- Plantura organic tomato seed set (10 varieties)Open-pollinated, good germination — robust for raised beds.
- Organic tomato seed set, 14 varieties
- Organic heirloom tomato seed set (Demeter, 12 varieties)
- Organic vegetable seed set, 10 varietiesCucumber, tomato, beetroot, broccoli, carrot, chard & more.