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Action plan: CIAR BYRNE's essential jobs for your garden this week

BELIEVE IN YOUR BRASSICAS

There is a cabbage for nearly every season. It is one of the most versatile, nutritious, and useful of vegetables, and can be used to make stews, sauerkraut, side dishes and salads.

Now is the time to transplant spring cabbage seedlings to their final growing position for cropping early next year.

If you have not already sown them under cover or in a seed bed, you can buy plug plants. Seedlings are ready to plant out when they reach about 15cm tall.

Choose a bed where you have not grown brassicas within the last couple of years to avoid clubroot.