Buscaro Cabbage Seed

Why Grow Buscaro Cabbage?

Large & Colorful Buscaro Red Cabbage is a productive variety prized for its dense heads, rich color, and excellent field performance. The round-oval heads develop an intense dark red color and grow on tall, sturdy stems that help keep plants healthy and upright throughout the season. With heads reaching up to 8 pounds, Buscaro is an outstanding choice for gardeners looking for large, high-quality cabbage for fresh use or storage.

Excellent Holding Ability Buscaro Cabbage holds exceptionally well in the field, even during colder weather, making it a dependable option for extended harvest windows and mid-term storage. The dense, flavorful heads are especially well suited for slaw and fresh preparations. This variety also offers resistance to tip burn and Alternaria brassicicola, helping maintain healthy foliage and strong head development under challenging growing conditions. Productive, attractive, and reliable, Buscaro is an excellent red cabbage choice for home gardens and market growers alike.

Buscaro Cabbage Growing Tips

• When to Plant Cabbage

Cabbage is a "cool season" vegetable that grows best in the fall and early spring months. Cabbage should be transplanted as opposed to being directly seeded in the backyard garden. Plant seeds indoors or in a greenhouse 4-6 weeks before your intended in-ground planting date.

Cabbage transplants should be planted outdoors once they have a well-established root ball in their seed starting containers. Aim to put your transplants in the ground in the late summer months for a fall planting or in the late winter months for a spring planting.

Cabbage plants should be planted at least 1 foot apart along your garden rows. If growing cabbage in raised beds or containers using the square foot gardening method, give each plant approximately 1' of space for best results.

• How to Fertilize Cabbage

It's always a good idea to apply some pre-plant fertilizer to the soil prior to planting cabbage transplants. We like to sprinkle Coop Gro organic fertilizer on our raised beds or along our rows prior to planting. This ensures the plants have the right nutrients to put down roots in their new soil.

Cabbage is considered a "heavy-feeder," which means it will respond well to additional fertilizations as it grows. To grow large heads of cabbage, you'll want to feed it with a nitrogen-based fertilizer several times throughout the growth cycle.

Once your cabbage transplants start to grow, feed them every 3-4 weeks with a high-nitrogen fertilizer -- something like a 13-0-0 or higher will usually suffice. You can also incorporate chicken manure or other animal manure into the soil a few weeks before planting. This will also provide lots of nitrogen to make large heads of cabbage.

*To learn more about how to fertilize certain cool season vegetables, watch this video.

• When to Harvest Cabbage

Cabbage should be harvested once the plants form a compact head of cabbage where the leaves are tightly wound in a large ball. When grown in the fall and winter months, cabbage tends to hold really well. This gives you a longer harvesting window, allowing you to cut heads of cabbage as you need them.

When growing cabbage in the spring months, the harvesting window will be shortened as temperatures are warming. Cabbage may be prone to bolt or split with sudden warming in the late spring and summer months. As a result, you may need to harvest heads as soon as they're large and ready.