Name: Danish Ballhead Cabbage
SKU: DMLJD 7737894240514
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SKU: DMLJD 7737894240514 Categories: Cabbage, Vegetables Tags: Fall, Winter

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Danish Ballhead

115 days — ‘Danish Ballhead’ has been a standard storage-type variety since it was introduced by W. Atlee Burpee & Company in 1887.^[1] It has been a dependable variety, resisting bolting and splitting and keeping until late spring. Produces round, blue-green, seven to eight inch diameter heads weighing five to seven pounds. Adapted to the Northeast and does well in mountainous areas.

Although known as ‘Danish Ballhead’ in North American, it is actually a short-stemmed strain of the old Danish variety called ‘Amager’. Danish records date ‘Amager’ as being developed by Dutch colonists, on the island of the same name, in the fifteenth century.^[1]

When introducing it as a new variety, here is how W. Atlee Burpee described ‘Danish Ballhead’ in their 1887 Seed Annual:

“While in Denmark last August, we discovered a variety of cabbage called, from the shape of the heads, Ballhead, which the Danes prize so highly that they grow it almost exclusively for winter cabbage, and annually export large quantities. In the winter of 1884-5 several large shipments were made to New York, where ready sales, at high prices, were realized. The variety has been selected and perfected for more than fifty years by the Danish gardeners and it is remarkable that the seed has not been offered before in America. We have imported, at a high price, a limited supply of the seed direct from the best growers in Denmark and can recommend it with full confidence. The heads are hard as they can be, round as a ball, of good marketable size, of extra choice quality, very fine grained, and remarkably good keepers.“^[2,3]

Each packet contains 0.5 gram, which is approximately 75 seeds.