Bonner Advent (Brassica oleracea conva

Season Overview

Description

annual; The variety name 'Bonner Advent' already suggests that this savoy cabbage is not an early but a late winter savoy cabbage variety. It is sown only from June or August and harvested after overwintering in May - not in Advent. May savoy forms beautiful large heads with green curly leaves and promises really high yields. The old variety 'Bonner Advent' was grown especially in the foothills, the region around Cologne and Bonn, and is the only cultivated variety of the so-called Bonner Advent vegetable still available today, which was often planted out in the field only in November which, with its harvest in May, served as a spring herald for the new garden year. Along with many other cabbage and savoy cabbage varieties, it was therefore traditionally enjoyed as a classic winter vegetable and vitamin C supplier towards the end of the cold season.

Growing tips

Preculture from June or direct sowing in the open in July and August. Germination occurs already after about 1 week at an average temperature of 18°C. After emergence, separate to a planting distance of 40 x 50 cm.

Details

Seeding distance

40 cm

Row spacing

50 cm

Seeding depth

5 cm