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5 postsFirm storage varieties last until spring if you harvest and store them right. When white and red cabbage go into storage, why savoy stays in the bed, why pointed cabbage has no business in the cellar, and how the surplus becomes sauerkraut.
Cabbage has two main enemies: the cabbage white, whose caterpillars strip the leaves bare, and the unseen cabbage root fly, whose maggots destroy the roots. Here is how to keep both off without poison, with net, collar and a look under the leaves.
Brussels sprouts stand in the bed for almost half a year before the first sprouts are ripe. Two things decide firm versus loose sprouts: a firm soil and topping the growing tip in autumn. Here is how the patience crop succeeds into winter.
Kale is the most honest winter-vegetable classic: winter-hardy, healthy and fresh when other beds are empty. What really happens with the cold stimulus, why a hard frost is not necessary at all, and how to crop it from the bottom up from planting to winter harvest.
Why the heads stay small, why you fold the leaves over the cauliflower, and how broccoli keeps delivering side shoots for weeks after the main head.
