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White cabbage

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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.

Who is Stachi? →

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)

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