Notes
Napa. 2-row 12 in. Clubroot-tolerant. Fall crop.
Cultivars / Brassicas
Bilko
Napa cabbage · Brassica rapa subsp. pekinensis
DTM
54 d
68 d occupancy · hardy
Rows
2
12 in in-row
Density
2
plants / bed-ft
Yield
2
heads / bed-ft
Direct $/ft
$5.40
$3.00 / head
Propagation
- Method
- Transplant
- Cell size
- 128s
- Nursery lead
- 28 d
- Germination
- 5 d
- Germ temp
- 45°F – 85°F (opt 70°F)
- Seed spacing
- 2 in
Field geometry · 30 in
- Bed width
- 30 in
- Rows / bed
- 2
- In-row
- 12 in
- Seed spacing
- 2 in
- Plants / linear ft
- 2
- Plants / 50 ft
- 100
Timeline
- DTM from field
- 54 d
- Holding
- 14 d
- Occupancy
- 68 d
- Multicut
- no
- Fall photoperiod
- ×1.15
- Frost hardiness
- Hardy
Yield & revenue
- Sales unit
- head
- Units / bed-ft
- 2
- Avg unit wt
- 1.5 lb
- Target lb / bed-ft
- 3 lb
- Cull rate
- 10%
- Wholesale / Direct
- $1.50 / $3.00
Irrigation
- Drip lines / bed
- 2
- Emitter spacing
- 8 in
- Emitter GPH
- 0.5
- Weekly water
- 1.25 in
- GPH / 50 ft
- 75
- Gal / week · 50 ft
- 97.4
Soil extraction
- Fertility demand
- Heavy
- N / 100 bed-ft
- 2.4 lb
- P / 100 bed-ft
- 0.6 lb
- K / 100 bed-ft
- 2.6 lb
- N-P-K / 50 ft
- 1.2 / 0.3 / 1.3 lb
- Family
- Brassicaceae
On this farm · 50 ft block
- Season window
- 2026-03-04 → 2026-11-10
- First greenhouse
- 2026-02-04
- First harvest
- 2026-04-27
- Successions that fit
- 3 · every 18 d
- Bed-ft for 50 lb
- 19 ft
- Seed for 50 ft
- 118 seeds · 100 plants
- Wholesale / Direct · 50 ft
- $135.00 / $270.00
Companions
allium · dill
Avoid
strawberry