Savoy cabbage is a winter vegetable and one of the many types of cabbage. It has wrinkled, emerald green, crisp leaves.
Savoy cabbage is also known as:
Milan cabbage
Lombard cabbage
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Savoy cabbage (Brassica oleracea convar. capitata var. sabauda) is a winter vegetable and one of the many types of cabbage. It has wrinkled, emerald green, crisp leaves.
Savoy cabbage is mostly grown in spring and late summer/early autumn:
Spring cultivation is easiest: pre-sow under glass from February to early March. Transplant the seedlings in April; seedlings are also available in garden centers during that month.
For summer/autumn cultivation: sow in April and May directly into open ground.
Savoy cabbage likes rich, humus and calcareous soil. Additional farmyard manure is almost always necessary.
Bugs
![Spitskool_kooluil - Plant Pests recognize damage Cabbage moth Savoy cabbage.](https://plantenplagen.nl/wp-content/uploads/Spitskool_kooluil-500x387.jpg)
Leaf is eaten by caterpillars of large white (Pieris brassicae) and cabbage moth (Mamestra brassicae).
![Koolwittevlieg op boerenkool - Plant Pests](https://plantenplagen.nl/wp-content/uploads/Koolwittevlieg_op_boerenkool-500x380.jpg)
White flies colonize the underside of the leaf. They feed on leaf sap and secrete honeydew: Cabbage whitefly (Aleyrodes proletella) . Sooty mold then forms on the honeydew.
![wittekool_slakken - Plant Pests recognize damage caused by snails](https://plantenplagen.nl/wp-content/uploads/wittekool_slakken-500x447.jpg)
Leaf is eaten and slime trails can be seen: snails and slugs. During humid periods, ubiquitous slugs and snails can cause great damage.
Fungi & diseases
![Spitskool_mozaikvirus - Plant Pests recognize virus infection pointed cabbage](https://plantenplagen.nl/wp-content/uploads/Spitskool_mozaikvirus-500x457.jpg)
Light and dark spots appear on the cabbage, discoloring to brown-black: mosaic virus.
Poor growth, plant wilting, swollen roots rotting away: Clubroot (Plasmodiophora brassicae).
Leaf yellows and turns brown, eventually the leaves fall off: downy mildew (Peronospora parasitica).