Vegetable / Cool season
Golden Acre Cabbage
Space-efficient spring or fall brassica for raised beds.
Compact green heads with classic cabbage sweetness.
Seed spacing and maturity
- Days to maturity
- 64
- Germination temperature
- 55-85F
- Seed depth
- 0.5 inches
- Spacing
- 18 inches
- Row spacing
- 30 inches
- Start method
- Either
Frost-date timing
- Indoor start
- 6 weeks before last frost
- Direct sow
- 21 days before last frost
- Transplant
- 14 days before last frost
- Fall planting
- 12 weeks before first frost
- Succession interval
- repeat every 21 days
Action plan
- Can I plant this now?
- Use your local last-frost, first-frost, and soil-temperature checks before treating this crop as plantable today.
- Start indoors or direct sow?
- Direct sow or transplant depending on your soil warmth, bed readiness, and frost-risk plan.
- How much space?
- 18 inches in-row spacing, 30 inches between rows, and 0.5 inch seed depth.
- Best companions?
- Use crop-family rotation first, then pair with compatible timing, spacing, and canopy size rather than relying on a simple companion chart.
- Common failure modes?
- Rotate away from other mustard-family crops and protect young plants from cabbage worms. Even moisture during head formation. Fertile, well-drained soil with steady nitrogen.
Is it still worth sowing this year?
Every region this site covers (Texas, North Florida, Central Maryland, New York City and York County, PA) publishes a cabbage planting window, so the answer for this variety is already dated. No other region is covered yet.
- The Texas cabbage window, measured against first frost AgriLife lists cabbage for Texas (AgriLife Region III); the page measures that window against this variety's 64 days to maturity and the region's first frost date.
- How much frost runway Golden Acre Cabbage has left in North Florida UF/IFAS lists cabbage for North Florida; the page measures that window against this variety's 64 days to maturity and the region's first frost date.
- The Central Maryland cabbage window, measured against first frost UMD Extension lists cabbage for Central Maryland; the page measures that window against this variety's 64 days to maturity and the region's first frost date.
- How much frost runway Golden Acre Cabbage has left in New York City Cornell CCE lists cabbage for the New York City area; the page measures that window against this variety's 64 days to maturity and the region's first frost date.
- The York County, PA cabbage window, measured against first frost Penn State Extension lists cabbage for York County, Pennsylvania; the page measures that window against this variety's 64 days to maturity and the region's first frost date.
Growing profile
- Sun
- Full sun
- Water
- Even moisture during head formation.
- Soil
- Fertile, well-drained soil with steady nitrogen.
- Watch
- Rotate away from other mustard-family crops and protect young plants from cabbage worms.
- brassica
- cool-season
- heads
- fall
Browse context
- Vegetable Catalog Category collection
- Mustard Family Rotation and family context
- Cool Season Seeds Season collection
- Either Seeds Start-method collection
- Container-Friendly Seeds Practical trait collection
- Succession Sowing Seeds Practical trait collection
- Fall-Planting Seeds Practical trait collection
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