The Golden Acre is a tasty cabbage that arrives early and is suited for close spacing. This early round head cabbage is easily grown and versatile in use. Heads are about 6 to 7 inches in diameter on compact plants about a foot high. Its firm, medium green head is excellent cooked or raw in stews and salads.

Tetragon cabbage, also known as New Zealand spinach, is a leafy plant with triangular leaves, yellow flowers, and small, hard capsules that contain seeds. It's a trailing plant that can form a thick carpet on the ground or climb through other plants.Tetragon is usually grown for its leaves, which can be added in salads or cooked. Thanks to its ability to withstand difficult climates, this plant grows readily in the wild in China, Reunion Island, and New Zealand. It is also fairly easy to grow in Quebec, but it will behave as an annual since it cannot tolerate frost.

Held up by a round stem, tetragon has a really unique look with its thick leaves and quadrangular fruits. Good source of vitamin B1, B2 and C; the spinach is both delicious and nutritious!

Physical characteristics

Leaves: Thick, bright green, triangular leaves that are 3–15 cm long 

Flowers: Yellow or pale yellow-green flowers with four or five petals that grow at the leaf joints 

Fruit: Small, hard capsules with 4–10 horned seeds 

Stems: Long, trailing stems that are usually green or red 

Seed pods: Tough, four-cornered green seed pods that grow along the stems at the leaf joints 

Other names 

Botany Bay spinach

Cook's cabbage

Kōkihi (in Māori)

Sea spinach

Warrigal greens

Warrigal cabbage

Uses

The leaves can be eaten in salads or cooked 

It's a heat and drought-tolerant species that can be grown in home gardens 

Origin 

Native to Argentina, Australia, Chile, Japan, and New Zealand 

Red Acre Cabbage is an heirloom, open-pollinated variety that provides excellent storage capabilities. Plants produce beautiful, reddish-purple heads that are compact and require less space than traditional green cabbage varieties. This makes it a great variety for smaller gardens or intensive planting applications.

Dutch heirloom produces tight, tender medium-large heads often used for sauerkraut.

Danish heirloom variety. Small heads 6-8". Harvest in summer.

An heirloom variety that produces large, dense heads with a sweet flavor and crisp texture. It can be eaten raw, cooked, or pickled. 

An Italian variety with deep green crinkly leaves and a less compact head than green cabbage. It's considered the most tender and sweet variety.

Brunswick cabbage is a cold-hardy fall/winter variety that is also heat resistant. It has good flavor fresh and is a favorite for making sauerkraut. The solid heads can weigh 6-10 lbs. These are also delicious in our Spicy Cabbage Salsa Recipe!

Cabbage seeds can be planted outdoors.

Sow seeds 2-3 weeks before the last frost date.

Plant seeds 1/4" deep and 3" apart. Seeds should come up in  7-14 days. Thin seedlings to 18" apart. 

Keep cabbage free of weeds. This is especially important when they are small because the weeds will take nutrients away from the cabbages. 

Each packet contains 150 Brunswick Cabbage seeds. Brassica oleracea. Annual. Open-pollinated, heirloom, non-GMO. Harvest in 90 days. 

This packet plants a 75' row with 50 plants.

First imported to the U.S. in 1824, Brunswick cabbage history says all cole crops were exported under the Brunswick name at that time. This German heirloom, a large drumhead, is becoming rare as winter cabbage growing decreases. For many years it was a favorite for making sauerkraut. 

Features.

German heirloom with dense, firm drum-shaped heads packed with flavor.

An excellent late-season variety, the large, 6-10lb. drum-shaped heads are dense and firm. A favorite choice for homemade sauerkraut. Cabbage lasts longer in the fridge than most vegetables. If cabbage is properly stored, it can last from 3 weeks to up to 2 months in your refrigerator. In optimum root cellar conditions, it can even last longer. Do not remove the outer leaves nor wash until ready to use. It’s versatile and can be used for soups and salads, shredded into coleslaws, stir-fried, and fermented into sauerkraut. It can be stuffed whole or use individual cabbage leaves, steamed, boiled, fried, roasted, and grilled.