Probably one of the most well known and reliable spring cabbages, Cabbage Durham Early produces dark green, medium-sized conical heads with good texture and tasty flavour. You can start harvesting particularly early in the season, and for delicious tender 'spring greens'.

Golden Acre is an excellent early summer variety ball head cabbage. With small to medium-sized green solid heads on compact plants. Ideal for confined areas, it can be grown at 30cm spacings. This Heritage variety gives excellent small heads of first rate quality and flavour.

Appropriately named, Greyhound is one of the earliest summer cabbages and a reliable old favorite. Very fast growing with a yield of mild flavoured tender juicy hearts. Well suited to successional sowing. Sow from February to July, crops will be ready for cutting from June to October.

January King, although a French heirloom, is also considered to be a traditional British cabbage and one of the best varieties for winter use. They are well adapted, withstanding frost and winter rain and remain crisp and crunchy with excellent colour.

Savoy cabbage ‘Ormskirk’ is a very old heritage variety, it gives a fine head of cabbage, solid in the centre with deep blue-green outer crinkly leaves and a pale green centre. It matures from November and can be harvested through to March and beyond.

A very well known and trusted variety, Cabbage Primo II produces solid 'ball head' cabbage. Sown from March onwards they are ready summer though early autumn. The round, medium sized heads are produced on neat compact plants. Delicious steamed, raw in salads or used for delicious, homemade coleslaw.

Cabbage ‘Red Drumhead’ is a popular deep red heirloom variety which produces densely packed leafy heads with dark red, solid hearts in late summer through to Christmas. This old hardy variety from the 1860s is easy to grow, stores well and is remarkably tasty and sweet.

“Wintergreen Offenham 3” is a very popular variety, it has proven itself as an excellent variety for early season cabbages. Extremely hardy, these faster-maturing spring greens are ideal for utilising redundant polytunnel space over the winter months. RHS AGM.

With very good resistance to early bolting this variety is ideal for summer sowing. If you can bear to keep your mitts of them, your will be rewarded with great flavoured spring cabbages with compact pointed hearts during April and May. RHS AGM.