Grow your own tasty spring greens packed full of vitamins! Cabbage 'Winter Jewel' is a hardy overwintering cabbage variety, which will keep your veg patch productive through the coldest months. This easy-to-grow and reliable variety also shows good resistance to bolting. Plants provide a hearty harvest of healthy greens, which can be picked during spring. Spring greens are versatile veg, great in stews and casseroles or steamed and served as a side dish.Sow winter cabbage seed indoors seed from March to June. Alternatively direct sow outdoors from late March into a well-prepared seedbed, for transplanting to their final positions later on. Sow at a depth of 13mm (½") and distance of 23cm (9") between rows.Gradually acclimatise them to outdoor conditions over 7 – 10 days before planting cabbage in moist, rich, well-drained soil in full sun. A fertile soil is essential as cabbages require high levels of nitrogen. Prepare the soil in early spring by adding plenty of well-rotted farmy