How to grow ornamental cabbages
Follow our expert gardener's guide to growing your own ornamental cabbages
Cultivating ornamental cabbages
- How to grow ornamental cabbages
- Cultivating ornamental cabbages
- Varieties of cabbages
- Where to buy ornamental cabbages
With a fertile, preferably chalky soil and plenty of sun, by early autumn you can have a cabbage crop all of your own. The uneven surfaces of the leaves means that pests such as cabbage white butterflies find it difficult to land, so unsightly eaten leaves are rare, although the caterpillar is a danger - the RHS advises that you pick them off, and, if you are suffering on a large scale, to spray them with the biological control Bacillus thuringiensis.
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A variety of ornamental cabbages makes a stunning display
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