I had no idea cabbage was a big crop in the state of Georgia. That seems counterintuitive, but I see from a google glance that it is a year round crop. Huh, I'd never have guessed it.

What are your cabbage pests? My worst cabbage pests have been the green caterpillar of the cabbage white butterfly. They were suspiciously scant last year. Suspicious as in, uht-oh, what freak thing has happened to this missing slice of nature? And what else is going to domino down? Not my cabbage family crops, anyway.

I think I must have grown Golden Acre before. It seems like it is one of the seed varieties always available at dollar stores--and I do buy seeds there.

Last year I grew Danish Ballhead because it is one of the shorter season ones. I see on my seed packet that I started seed on March 8 and again on April 25. It is supposed to be a 90 day cabbage. I harvested beginning on July 19 and they were also mostly about 3 pounds. Still have a few seeds to plant this year.

I recall having been pleased with Copenhagen Market and growing it a couple years in a row, but I don't remember what I liked about it in particular. Size? Taste? I don't know.

One year we grew Ferry's Round Dutch. It was good with heads up to 5 pounds.

I also had a single head of one of those exhibition size cabbages in my flower garden one year. It was grown with a neighbor kid who'd been given a plant a school to grow out and submit to a scholarship competition. It grew to 9 pounds under great weed, drought, and insect pressure. We had planted it next to cleome. As you have trouble with harlequin bugs, you might know that they love cleome above all else. Cleome was the main meal and that big cabbage was dessert.

I could kick myself for pulling up a cabbage before our coldest weather in January. It had a little secondary tuft of leaves on it and might have grown to flowering if I'd protected it till the growing season. I was just thoughtless in yanking it up.

It would just be cool if I could save my own seed.

Yes, I grow from seed, too. But as you figured, I was wondering whether anyone saved their own cabbage seed. I guess I could have worded that better.

Do you have a hot summer? I think of cabbage as being better for cool, long summers, but the fact is they grow pretty well here. (And are a commercial crop in Georgia! Who'd have thought?)

Definitely my worst cabbage was savoyed, small headed, green one that I planted very close to a crape myrtle and which got a lot of shade. It made pretty silvery edging to the mint filled bed around the crape myrtle, but was a loose head and not very productive. I won't do that again.