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Cabbage, ornamental (Brassica oleracea) Planting Calculator

Brassica oleracea

Everything you need to plan Cabbage, ornamental (Brassica oleracea): recommended spacing, how many plants and seeds you'll need, when to start, and when to expect blooms. Defaults come from grower references and every value is editable.

At a glance

Recommended spacing
6″
Planting pattern
Intensive bed
Time to first production
Varies by variety
Enter your supplier's maturity value to estimate
Succession planting
Not typical
Start indoors
Direct sow / not typical
Production pattern
One-hit producer
Hardy annual

Plan your Cabbage, ornamental (Brassica oleracea) beds

Prefilled with Cabbage, ornamental (Brassica oleracea)'s recommended spacing. Adjust your bed size to get plant counts, seeds to start, and tray requirements.

Loads recommended spacing and planting pattern. You can override anything.
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Default 6″Range null–null″

Your plan

700
Total plants
Based on 3.5 plants/sq ft at 6″ spacing
Plants to buy (10% buffer)
771

Cabbage, ornamental (Brassica oleracea) is typically grown from plants, not seed trays, so tray counts are hidden.

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Planning notes

  • Horizontal netting
  • Landscape fabric

One-hit producer. A planting gives a concentrated harvest over a short window, so more frequent successive plantings are used to keep a continuous supply.

  • Support netting is commonly used.
  • Landscape fabric is commonly used for spacing and weed control.
  • First-production timing varies by cultivar and growing system, so enter the maturity value from your seed supplier to estimate production.

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