Cabbage

Early Thunder

Disease

Black rot, downy mildew, fusarium yellows

Mild — The only cabbage here with an explicit bolt-resistance claim - the one to plant in a spring that warms fast, where cabbage commonly flowers instead of heading. Excellent holding means it can stand rather than being cut all at once. Tip burn tolerance matters because heat drives tip burn in cabbage.

Stonehead

Disease

Fusarium yellows; tip burn and bursting tolerant

Split resistance is the point: an early 3-4 lb head can stand past maturity without bursting, so harvest timing is forgiving - unusual for an early cabbage. Short cores and few outer leaves allow tighter spacing. Cornell lists 50-67 days.

Charmant

Disease

Fusarium yellows; tip burn tolerant

Slow-forming is the care consequence - it will not rush a head, so do not read a slow start as failure. Tip burn tolerance is the heat-relevant trait sourced here, making it the better bet where spring turns hot. Upright habit suits close spacing. No bolt claim is made.

Golden Acre

Disease

Fusarium yellows

Early and compact with few outer leaves - plant closer, expect a 3-5 lb head, and do not expect it to store. Cornell's days are from TRANSPLANTING, not seeding, which matters for scheduling. SOURCE CONFLICT: Cornell 55-65, USU 58-65. No split-resistance claim sourced: moisture swings during heading cause splitting, and pulling the head to break side roots stops it.

Early Jersey Wakefield

Sparse outer foliage is the care consequence - it tolerates close spacing, so it is the cabbage for a small or intensive bed. Small 2-3 lb pointed heads mean eat-fresh, not storage. HONEST GAP: the widely repeated split-resistance claim appears only on seed-vendor pages, not the extension record, so it is omitted.

Savoy Ace

Mid-season savoy - slots between the early eating cabbages and the late storage types. SOURCE CONFLICT on maturity: Cornell 74, USU 78-80, MSU 78. HONEST GAP: no bolt, heat, or split claim sourced, so do not treat harvest timing as forgiving.

Red Acre

Compact plants with 2-4 lb heads - the red cabbage for tighter spacing. HONEST GAP: no extension-sourced bolt, heat, or splitting claim; gardener reviews mention split resistance but that is user comment, not the variety record. Water evenly through heading.

Bravo

Disease

Black rot, fusarium yellows

An 85-day late cabbage - start it early or it will not finish in a short season; in the South it fits the fall planting rather than spring. Black rot resistance is why to pick it where spring is warm and wet. HONEST GAP: no splitting claim sourced, so a large late head left standing is at real risk if rain follows drought.

Danish Ballhead

Also known as Danish Ball Head

A 90-100 day storage crop: plant it to mature into late fall and cure it for winter keeping, not for summer eating. This is the variety a short-season northern grower must start earliest - miss the window and it will not head. SOURCE CONFLICT: Cornell 90, USU 100; plan on the longer figure in the north.

Gonzales

Also known as Gonzales Baby

Size

Mini heads, 4 to 6 inches across

Early European hybrid producing softball-sized mini heads on a small plant, which is what lets it be spaced as close as a foot apart. Cornell lists 55-66 days, the earliest of the varieties here, so it suits short seasons and succession sowing. HONEST GAP: no extension-sourced disease resistance claim; the split resistance and storage life reported on the Cornell page come from gardener reviews, not the variety record.

Blue Vantage

Also known as Blue Vantage F1

Disease

Black rot; black leaf speck; Fusarium yellows; tip burn tolerant

Size

Round heads, 3 to 4 lb

The disease pick of this set: Cornell lists resistance to black rot, black speck and Fusarium yellows plus tip burn tolerance. Black rot has no cure once it infects, so resistance is worth more than any spray - choose this where the crop has had black rot before. Mid-season, blue-green, with good wrapper leaves.

Tendersweet

Disease

Fusarium yellows; splitting tolerant

Size

Mid-sized flat heads

Thin-leaved — Cornell's variety record says the flat heads stand 5 to 7 weeks without splitting - the most forgiving harvest window of any cabbage here, and the reason to pick it if you cannot cut on schedule. Thin leaves make it a slaw cabbage. Mid-season at 71 days.

Ruby Perfection

Also known as Ruby Perfection F1

Disease

Thrips tolerant

Size

Solid deep-purple heads, 4 to 6 lb

The red storage cabbage, where Red Acre is the compact fresh-eating red. Cornell's record calls it slow to split and good storing, and separately lists it as resistant to disorders. HONEST GAP: the 6-8 month refrigerated storage and heat tolerance claims on that page are a single gardener review, not the variety record - do not plan storage around them.

Deadon

Disease

Fusarium yellows

Size

Medium to large heads

A January King-type hybrid: late, red-tinged and semi-savoyed, with pinkish-purplish outer leaves over a pale green core. At 105 days it is a fall crop that finishes in cold weather - the slot where cabbage grows best - so it needs a midsummer sowing, not a spring one.

Late Flat Dutch

Size

Flattened oval heads about 14 inches wide

Open-pollinated heirloom storage cabbage, so you can save seed from it - the difference from Danish Ballhead is head shape, flat and oval rather than round. At 110 days it is the longest season of this set and needs a fall finish. HONEST GAP: no extension-sourced disease resistance claim, and the record gives no split tolerance, so cut it on time.