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Red Cabbage — Stardew Valley Crop Guide

Spawn ID, growth time, seasons, and best processing for Red Cabbage.
Red Cabbage

Red Cabbage takes 9 days to fully mature from its seed. It is used in the recipes for three items: coleslaw, red plate and fish taco. The Help Wanted board may request a Red Cabbage during the season of summer after 2 years have passed in the game.

Category
Objects
Subcategory
Basic
Sell Price
260g

The item ID for Red Cabbage in Stardew Valley is: 266

Red Cabbage
[266]

Red Cabbage Information

Red Cabbage is a vegetable crop that grows from Red Cabbage Seeds after 9 days. The seeds are available at Pierre's General Store starting in Year 2, or can be found starting in Year 1 in the Skull Cavern or Traveling Cart.

Growing Red Cabbage

Grows from Red Cabbage Seeds. First harvest in 9 days.
Growing seasons
SpringSummerFallWinter
Yield per harvest1
Harvests per season1
Harvest methodHand
Sell price (raw)260g
Where to buy seeds
  • Night Market — Magic Boat (Day 2)· Year 2+
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  • Pierre(Summer)· Year 2+
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  • Travelling Cart· WORLD_STATE_FIELD VisitsUntilY1Guarantee 0 0
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Best processing
  • Raw
    260g
  • Keg
    585gJuice
  • Preserves Jar
    570gPickle

Best gold/day: 20.9gg via Keg.

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Red Cabbage Effects

Eating Red Cabbage restores 75 energy and 33 health.

Red Cabbage Tailoring

Use Red Cabbage as the spool item (with Cloth in the left slot) to tailor:

Recipes That Use Red Cabbage

Red Cabbage is used as an ingredient in 3 recipes.

Red Cabbage in Community Center Bundles

Red Cabbage is needed for 1 Community Center bundle. Donate to restore the bundle and unlock its reward.

  • DyeBulletin Board
    Needs Red Cabbage — any 1 of 2 options.
    Reward: Seed Maker

Using Red Cabbage in Machines

What you get by putting Red Cabbage into farm machines.

Red Cabbage in Collections

Shipping Red Cabbage counts toward the Full Shipment achievement (335 items). Track your shipping progress →

Red Cabbage Villager Gift Reactions

Give Red Cabbage as a gift to build friendship. Each villager reacts differently — pick someone who loves it for the biggest friendship boost. Gifts given on a villager's birthday count 8× — a loved gift jumps from +80 to +640 friendship.

  • LikesAlex🎂 Summer 13Caroline🎂 Winter 7Clint🎂 Winter 26Demetrius🎂 Summer 19Dwarf🎂 Summer 22Elliott🎂 Fall 5Emily🎂 Spring 27Evelyn🎂 Winter 20George🎂 Fall 24Gus🎂 Summer 8Harvey🎂 Winter 14Jodi🎂 Fall 11Kent🎂 Spring 4Krobus🎂 Winter 1Leah🎂 Winter 23Leo🎂 Summer 26Lewis🎂 Spring 7Linus🎂 Winter 3Marnie🎂 Fall 18Maru🎂 Summer 10Pam🎂 Spring 18Penny🎂 Fall 2Pierre🎂 Spring 26Robin🎂 Fall 21Sandy🎂 Fall 15Sebastian🎂 Winter 10Shane🎂 Spring 20Willy🎂 Summer 24Wizard🎂 Winter 17
  • DislikesAbigail🎂 Fall 13Haley🎂 Spring 14Jas🎂 Summer 4Sam🎂 Summer 17Vincent🎂 Spring 10
See the full Red Cabbage gift guide →

Red Cabbage Cheat Help

Item spawning in Stardew Valley isn't accomplished through typical commands. Instead, it involves a cheat method where you name your character, or an animal, with the item code of the desired item, enclosed in square brackets [ and ]. Include the brackets when naming.

Spawn Using Animal Name

To spawn this item, buy an animal (we recommend a chicken because it is the cheapest) from Marnie's Ranch, name it [266]. You will then receive the Red Cabbage item.

Spawn Using Character Name

Since you can only set your character's name once at the game's inception, we advise using the animal naming method.

However, if you opt for this method, name your character [266] while creating your save file. When you converse with any villager who mentions your name in their dialogue, like Gus at the Stardrop Saloon, you'll receive the Red Cabbage item.