Growing Cabbages from Sowing to Harvest
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Cabbages you’ve grown yourself are sweeter and crunchier than anything you can buy. Better still, they are straightforward to grow, so there’s no reason you can’t enjoy delicious homegrown cabbage.
There’s a cabbage for every season, meaning you can have a year-round supply of your very own tasty cabbages.
In this short video we show you everything you need to know to grow the perfect crop, from sowing to transplanting to harvesting - and everything in between!
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I used sheer curtains over my cabbages to prevent cabbage moths from laying their eggs. It worked very well and let the sun and rain through. Beautiful cabbages for my first try!
Karen Greene thanks for the tip. I will try it.
Good tip. I think I will try that.
Karen Greene, you're very appreciated at this very moment!! I have 3 sets of very long sheer curtains hanging in a closet that would be absolutely perfect for this!
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!!!
Ikea have nets at £5 a pair and are extremely long and quite wide. Perfect for netting without paying the 'gardening club' prices
Are sheer curtains cheaper than row coversif you have to buy them?
Cabbage head splitting is a sign that the plant is about to send up its seed stalk. This can be avoided by keeping the soil uniformly moist near harvest time. Splitting can also be prevented by root pruning the plant about the time the heads mature. This can be done by cultivating near the plant or simply twisting the plant a quarter turn to break some of the roots.
Thank you so much. I have always been confused by the way cabbages are listed, so I planted spring cabbage in spring, winter cabbage in fall. Nothing ever worked out for me. I feel like I just got a cabbage education!
Glad it was helpful! :-)
The perfect cabbage lesson, excellently presented.
This video was very helpful!! I’m growing cabbages from seed for the first time and did not know at what stage they would be fig enough to transplant. Thanks!
Thank you for that. I didn't know about nasturshans or mint to deter certain pests.
This year I have lemon balm in my raised bed with the cole crops and they all look healthy with no white moths for the first time ever. It may be a coincidence or not.
Many herbs are arguably good companions to cole crops as their smell will help to confuse potential pests. Though I have to say you're very lucky not to get any cabbage white butterflies at all!
Someone in my local gardening group said that the white butterflies seemed more interested in pollinating their catnip blooms than eating the cabbage. I didn’t grow cabbage last year, but I do have lots of catnip. Guess I’ll find out for myself this season. 😊
Hope it's a success. :-)
I would love for you to do a sowing to harvest video about Brussels Sprouts. Your videos are my go to when I want to learn anything about gardening.
Thanks for the suggestion Lisa - I'll add that to our list of video ideas.
Good video. The netting needs a mesh no bigger than 5mm square to keep the butterflies out. I watch my neighbour's butterflies squeeze through an 8mm mesh. It's not easy, but they do it! It also needs to be held off the leaves as those pesky butterflies can get their ovipositors through the tiniest hole, and if the leaf is touching the net, the eggs will be laid! If you have used a tight mesh, and don't remove them yourself, the caterpillars will be protected from the birds, and you will find a flight of butterflies INSIDE your net!
Great advice Pam, thank you.
Great tip you must know a lot about gardening I think I might try that I'm a beginner at gardening so I'm still learning.
This guy is just a joy to watch. So much enthusiasm for gardening, it seems to comes off effortlessly again and again in every new video I binge. And even if he doesn't know everything (and that seems unlikely!) it's ok because you know you're in the hands of someone who'll never stop being engaging and thoughtful. So Sir, I do hope you're also into flower gardening, because should Monty Don ever retire from BBC's Gardener's World, you are surely the candidate to succeed him. Passion, charm, on-screen charisma: you've got it all in spades. More and more people are being advised to take up gardening for mental wellbeing, and it's so important that we have a new generation of guides like you (who have none of that modern cynicism or pretentiousness). Best regards from Ireland.
I don't know where to look - you've made me blush with your kind comments! Thank you - and I'm so pleased you enjoy the videos! :-)
It's true... You definitely should be a TV presenter
we don't have those variety in Cambodia. Nature is wonderful, we all are unique
Lol
there were several times more variety of crops in Southeast Asia until green revolution back in 1950 when the chemical companies push their agendas into farmers and those without much choices in life fell for their exploits then the following generations aka our generations suffering from the consequences. But there are integrity movements all over the world including people in India and Thailand where the farmers get together to take sustainability way back to our hands. I don't know if people in Cambodia do anything but I heard many Cambodian people went to Thailand and studied sustainability agriculture and how to produce charcoal along with gathering pyroligneous acid while burning wood to produce charcoal.
I grow cabbage 🙂
@@dreamingacacia Heard about this too.
U from Cambodia which part me also from Cambodia
Cabbage: _Exist_
Bugs: *_its free real estate_*
I am from India , last year I tried and succeeded it by growing under a net shade, awesome, thanks
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Cabbage is one of my favorites. I’ve never grown them before but I hope to this year.
I never missed one video of yours,the food you made for your family looks very delicious and healthy,you are blessed to have an extraordinary talent,thanks for sharing your life with us
Thank you so much for watching Sarah. :-)
Nice tips and tricks, thank you. My cabbage will love this
Loved it! It taught me a lot. So anybody who watches it is in for a treat. HAVE A GREAT TIME.
wood ash is good, too, in place of lime. Free, too, if you're a wood burner.
We love Enkhuizen varieties. Great large heads,perfect for sauerkraut!
Great video! Complete beginner here having just planted my first cabbages 👍🏻
Ik this is 3 years later lol, but how did it go?
After i watched your video , now i can do by myself Cabbage Growing in pot at my home garden .
How can you decline such a kind request as this British man politely asking to subscribe and like.
About to start my first cabbage garden, thank you for the tips!
I will sow the cabbage seeds into the ground,( no luck with the indoor seedlings), with a tomato plant to ward off cabbage beetles.
It's the good method to plant cabbage
Awesome vid, but as a beginner gardener, it would have been great if u mentioned a few good varieties for each season, since u talked about particular seasons-ie best winter, spring, summer and autumn varieties. In Australia, I haven’t come across varieties targeted to specific seasons-but in most places here, cabbage has to be a winter grown crop, as it can get too hot for brassicas.
We shy away from recommending varieties because what's available varies so dramatically across the world, and what might be great for one area wouldn't necessarily thrive in another. Local seed companies are always best for sourcing seed suited to your conditions. I appreciate in most parts of Australia it would be too hot for brassicas in summer.
Cool. I'm a beginner person at gardening so that might come in handy for me cuz I'm still learning about gardening.
There's an italian heirloom variety called violaceo di verona cabbage it iapparently tolerates heat. I'm trying that this year, in zone 7b
You can try shade cloth on a row of cabbage in the warmer months to see how it would do. I would also double the spacing in the row and row to row to help conserve water.
Thanks for sharing this good tips how to plants cabbages in other vegetables enjoy planting
I’m trying Chinese cabbage this year. I’ll try the nasturtiums trick. I interplant them with my tomatoes already
Florida zone 9 I do best with early Dutch flat in large (20 gallon), self-watering containers that will grow 3 plants with picture perfect heads to 12#. One head will make 25+ stuffed cabbage rolls, which my kids claim are every bit as good as lasagna with regard to their idea of special meals.
I prune the early leaves (as early greens) and just keep the leaves off of the soil and with plenty airflow underneath. I start mine at the end of Sept and grow past Jan or harvest as needed after that. They Take a little longer this time of year when the sun diminishes some, but I end up not having to use any pest control or excessive water usage.
It’s great to make the most of those pest-free times of year - smart move!
Excellent advice as always and one of my favourite channels. I love how everything mentioned in your posts are relevant and succinct which definitely helps when learning (or for people with shoty attention spans like me).
Thanks ben very useful video I have to say your cabbages really do look beautiful ❤
So thorough. So grateful for your wisdom shared. TY
Can't wait to try cabbage this year! Just need to find the seeds by where I live. It's not really fall yet here in florida. Lol
Burpee!
From the far north of NZ - our problems would be opposite to yours; too much heat and "frosts" so rare and so mild that anyone in England would laugh at their being called frosts. The names of varieties are different but I like the minis and the all-year-rounders. Within the space of a month, brassicas went from being cheap to obscenely expensive, so the home gardens will now become more widespread and much better organised.
Yes, nothing like a price shock to galvanise the resolve to grow more. But it's all good stuff - can't beat homegrown. :-)
Wow God bless the growing cabbages it so amazing and yummy🥬
*MY CABBAGES!!*
I love that Beethoven loves cabbages!
@@rosedolch8637 it's a reference to avatar the last air bender
"OFf wItH tHeIr HeAdS!!! One for every head of cabbage!" He said that at least once.
I am so happy to now about this
Thanks for the tips excited to try this my nana always grew this in garden at farm I love a good broccoli cabbage red onion slaw !! Dont forget the bacon:)
That was a very good lesson on growing cabbages. However I feel you have missed out one important part I was specifically looking for. How to take care of a new forming head. Whenever mine start to grow some insects eat them and my cabbage get stuck there. That's when I root it out and cook the leftover.
Hi Juba. The best thing to do is to cover your cabbages (and many other cabbage family crops) with insect mesh to keep critters such as cabbageworms off your plants. I hope you get a good harvest this season.
Try a type I think it is spelled fieldenkraut, (not sure) grows pointed head, sweet, and huge up to several pounds. Use to be used in Germany before machine harvesting which favors round or flat cabbage.
Thanks Cliff, I'll take a look.
Watching this so I know when to plant my cabbages for this fall. I believe they need transplanting now ish??
They have been grown on in bitter 15cm pots so at a good size to go into the ground with compost and bfb… they going into a raised bed- not a deep one. But not on in ground
Yes, I'd get cabbages to be harvested in the fall into the ground now. :-)
@@GrowVeg ok will do tomorrow. Took the dogs for a walk yesterday and did too much so now I’m paying for it the prat I am!
Thank you for the informative video. I like your enthusiasm and your garden 🙂💐
My favorite cabbage is Savoy (especially for cabbage rolls), and I will be growing it for the first time this year (very hard to find seeds. Also, I didn't know that before, until someone mentioned that, seeds ordered from different countries are often irradiated at the border, therefore, the seeds won't sprout. It happened to me too. Waste of money).
Love Savoy cabbage too - the royalty of cabbage types!
I heard mint to deter rabbits but didn't know what deterred flea beetles that explains why I don't have any this year
I hope it can grow here in phillipines i would love to try it
I am putting rabbit manure and multch like grass clippings with rabbit pee on it and put it around my brassicas and the white butterfly leaves them alone and this also makes an excellent fertilizer .
Smart move!
danish ballhead is my favorite along with early Jersey wakefield. My wife is from Asia and so I grow Chinese cabbage, which has the best flavor over regular cabbage. But hard to form heads when weather gets hot.
I'm planning on making kimchi this year using Chinese cabbage, so hope to grow more of it. Getting it to head up properly can be a challenge - the trouble here is excessive wet!
In Manipur we have sougry vegi which is locally known, it's test is a less sour and better n only eat leaves which good for digestion and grown in summer. Thank u amen.
Appreciate the tips..Mine are looking good.
They can be grown from leaves too. Nice vid
I was just picking of caterpillars a few days back... Thanks for the tip for growing nasturtiums close by :)
Very very informative, useful video, thanks for sharing.
Thank you! I learned something new!
I have good luck with savoy early Jersey wakefield (pointed) and late flat Dutch (very large). I prefer Chinese cabbage as I my wife and I like the mild taste. My wife is Chinese Filipino, but if the heat comes to early they will not form heads.
*Diocletion has added this to his watch later*
Hello, fellow Romaboo
Another great video...could u possibly do one on purple sprouting broccoli?
Thanks for the suggestion Gavin. We'll add it to our list of video ideas. :-)
@@GrowVeg thankyou I never seem to do any good with it..but love to eat it but its so expensive in the shops...keep up the great content 👍
Appreciate your great effort
I like growing and like your video
Chinese Cabbage .
These things are tiny, one cabbage per Sunday dinner for four.
I grow 4 of these cabbage per 1 foot square in a very raised bed.
succession growing is successful using 4 raised beds.
Chinese cabbage tend to grow in a traffic cone shape rather than the big sprawling English cabbage shape.
Fantastic for the small garden .. will grow in pots and planters too.
Great recommendation. :-)
ever tried Christmas lights around a plant in the winter under a net or cover ?
I haven't, no - sounds like it could be a pretty effect though.
@@GrowVeg lights to add a few degrees of heat* sorry.
I've just found your channel and subscribed 😊🤗🌱🌼🌻🌹🌳🥦🥗 I've been gardening for since the age of 13, I'm 30 now 🤫🤫🤪😅 not usually a fan of fruits and veggies in my garden, mainly just because of the stray animals around my home, possums and raccoons and groundhogs and moles 😅😥😖😵 little buggers don't like to share so they'll eat the whole plant lol... Looking forward to seeing more from you. I hope your weekend is going well and that you get lots of gardening/relaxing time (some people wouldn't consider gardening very relaxing, but I do!)
Welcome aboard Stephanie - it's great to have you as a new subscriber! Managed to get some gardening done this weekend - but there's always plenty more to be doing!
Do you have a video on growing brussel sprouts? thanks for the great advice.
I don't have a video, but beets are a good companion for Brussels sprouts. I plant mine about 2' apart with 3 beet plants in between.
We don't have a video but have a comprehensive article on growing Brussels sprouts: www.growveg.com/guides/growing-brussels-sprouts/
@@GrowVeg ...
This is awesome guide.But in places I would unravel the surrounding weeds for better production purposes.
Good job
Ilove cabbage lot
When can we harvest a head of cabbage! How many hours does it take to light the sun?! Can it be grown in a location that receives about 4 hours of sun per day?
Thanks for the video, your channel is very useful, keep it up 💚
Cabbages can be grown in part shade - around four hours of direct sunshine a day should be fine. With the right selection of varieties you could potentially have cabbages to harvest year-round.
Thank you
This is amazing bro
I'm growing cabbages from seed they seem to be doing ok .but now that they are between 70- 80 cm they are not standing upright but lying over is this normal. first timer not sure what to look for.
It may just be that they are a bit top-heavy. Keep the plants well watered and I'm sure they'll right themselves up again in due course.
Hi , any idea why they don't grow enough inside , the head in my patch raised bed is not fill and compact..strange ! I left them much longer, even so they did not develop a compact head .
It could be a number of things. It is a cooler season vegetable, so keeping it clear of the hottest sun can help, as will regular watering to keep it quenched. Space is important for cabbages to heart up properly. And ensuring they are planted into good, fertile soil to fuel steady growth.
Before I plant my cabbage I planted a green manure phacelia first and I cut and buried them for 6 weeks before I transplant my cabbage, I never fertiliser them at all. As first time gardener isn’t bad at all. Then I put cover crop beside them, it’s seems they don’t really care but I am not sure if I do it right.
Worth a try. Leguminous cover crops are always recommended for cabbage-family crops as they fix nitrogen at their roots, which cabbages and their relatives love. This like clover, vetch and field beans and peas work well. If you've dug the phacelia in I'm sure it too will have added goodness to the soil.
GrowVeg I think so too. I just tried it I never know if this would work or not But seems it is. Thank you for the reply.
I know this is old, do I loosen up the soil between rows, my raised bed has become quite compact it still absorbed water but it puddles up first.
No need to loosen up the soil if the water is eventually seeping through okay. Perhaps you could top up between the rows with a mulch of organic matter though, to help with the compactness.
I used tulle from granddaughters wedding to protect the Brassicas!
Perfect - great repurposing!
Great info, thank you for sharing
this bro is looking same as gta 5 Lester
Thanks for this! 👍
Help.
I am growing cabbages for the first time in containers.
But they are developing white lines on the leaves
Other leaves are shrivelling and again showing white marks.
But no trace of caterpillars.
Any suggestions?? Please.
Not sure what this might be - check out our pest guides for cabbages to see if anything matches up: www.growveg.com/pests/us-and-canada/plant-problems/cabbage-pests-identification/ and www.growveg.com/plant-diseases/us-and-canada/plant-problems/cabbage-diseases-identification/
Great video..Very informative
I have been growing the cabbage for almost a month now and the leaves are about as big as my thumb. Can i keep them in the pot? Will it die?
I would plants or cabbage, wherever it will have more space and light. So if it has fills the pots, then either plant it into a larger container or into prepared ground. With more resources to draw on it should then hopefully grow away a bit quicker.
Pointed cabbage is very successful easy and smaller so can grow closer together in smaller spaces
Hi Ben, my all season cabbage are small but the leaves are coming olong
Glad to hear they're making progress. Hopefully something tasty to harvest soon.
I have grown cabbages last autumn and I have left the roots and whatever is left. This time in April I see shoots of leaves and flowers coming from the same place. And some flowers are turning yellow. Will these end up as cabbages? Or I have to try fresh.
They won't produce cabbages if they are already flowering, so I would resow. If you have lots of space, you could leave the plants in the ground to flower, which will help to support various pollinating insects.
Excellent, Thank you
Here in the US, .22 rifles are best for pigeons
TheTobaccoGuy! Well, not everyone is so trigger happy outside of US.
No offence but "you guys" will shoot anything that moves LOL
@@incanada83 That may be because you can't own firearms in much of the world. Shooting pests is not a uniquely American idea. It's more in the common sense category.
@@thetobaccoguy1751 Sometimes may be so.
Once I saw a guy shooting at....mosquitoes!
I sure did got the hell out of there really quick (on a trip to Alabama). LOL
@Dee M I shot at a wasp with a .308 this weekend. Lol. In all fairness I was shooting at 100 yards and he landed on top of my target
1st time cabbage grower here. Bought 12 seedlings before decided where to put them, planted too late to form heads. Lots of big loose leaves apart from 3-4 skeletonised by slugs (also snails). Now I remove them with grabber.
Question is: Are they edible? Even with seed pods looking like cauliflowers growing in the middle? And big thick loose veiny leaves with holes? Also, when I cut off the leaves, will they grow back from the stalks or should I dig out the stumps and plant new seedlings? Ps. I love cabbage cooked in the ham water!
Yes, they would be edible - every part of the plant is edible. If you cut off all the leaves you may get some secondary growth of leaves from the stalk, but these are unlikely to form a head.
@@GrowVeg Thank you for your reply. The leaves were delicious, reminded me of the 'school dinner' greens I loved so much.
Can the broccoli-like (not 'cauliflower') centres be cooked/boiled/eaten like actual broccoli?
I see on the internet they are not the same thing, that cabbage centres/seedpods can be 'eaten RAW in salads' but I can't quite understand why RAW. Can't it be cooked and enjoyed like broccoli? If not then why not? Does Broccoli grown on a plant with leaves different from & less edible than cabbage?
our cabbage was great
thx🤣🤣
I have never grown cabbage before so when I cut the head off I ended up leaving little starts on the base and now they are all growing. There are five or six little starts on each stem. Should I thin them or break them off and plant them?
I would just leaves them all to grow a bit bigger then harvest this bonus extra crop.
I could not get my cabbage seedlings to harden off. They just fell over a few weeks after they emerging.
Sorry to hear that Jerry. I hope this video offers a few pointers for next time. You might also want to check out our guides to cabbage pests, in case it may have been one these: www.growveg.com/pests/us-and-canada/plant-problems/cabbage-pests-identification/
@@GrowVeg I put my remaining seedlings in an aluminum lined box with a led light it over it. Hopefully that will toughen up the stems.
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Marco Polo, you're right, and so is no till gardening and cover crops to grow healthy soil 🙂
Im in Africa, please for how long should I hold the sawn seeds in the fridge before bringing them out?
Hi Lilia. You shouldn't really have to put them in the fridge after sowing. Sow them direct where they are to grow or transplant into their final positions. I would be sure to keep them watered if it's hot - and perhaps offer them a site that isn't in full sun if it is really hot where you are.
@@GrowVeg thank you very much! In Russian we call it 'stratefication' or so, I watched Russian You tube videos as well (P.S.: I know, its stange that Russian lives in Africa)
Its +27 +32 in shade all year round here, really hot!
Hello, how are you, my dear, I planted cabbage and I did not have a head, and I knew what the reason was
Hopefully some of the advice in this video will help for next time. Garden-grown cabbage is the best. :-)
@@GrowVeg Thanks
just to be clear can I sow cabbages in september for next year and what variety would you say.
thank you for your videos by the way, I am a subscriber so follow you.
The best types of cabbage to sow in early autumn for next spring would be varieties of spring cabbage. Varieties like 'Durham Early' are great, but sow them as soon as possible, while there's still warmth in the soil.
How many days it can cabbage spend on the bed
Wow. Thank you for the information.
Great video very interesting. How does your seedlings in the pots for transplant to ground get such thick stalks. How long before you put in ground. I moved from tray into bigger pots they are sprouting up but not getting a lot thicker which is why I’m hesitating putting into ground yet. First time doing it so any help would be appreciated. Thanks
I wouldn't really worry about how thick the stem is at planting time, more whether the roots have reached the bottom of their pots or not. It's the root system that is important. Generally cabbages might take up to two months from sowing to planting out, but often quicker.
GrowVeg thanks for reply . I put into ground under small polly tunnel for protection. They seem to be doing fine so I’ll keep going trial and error it’s all good. Thanks again for all your info
I am not sure if anyone can help with my issue, as if your watching this you dont know how to grow cabbages, and its not covered. But hopefully an experienced gardener can help out. My cabbages dont just grow up (like in the video) but seem to wonder and sprawl, any suggestions ?(they are in a poly tunnel, getting full light)
They need quite firm soil. Are they getting enough space too? Or were they initially crammed in and thinned/transplanted too late? These could cause the plant to sprawl a bit.
@@GrowVeg really appreciate the reply, the only thing that could be an issue from your suggestions is the firmness of the 'soil' actually a 'spongey' compost, is there a way to fix this?(BTW, just downloaded your planner, and it seems great, still setting it up, need to do a lot more measuring..lol)
Should I start cabbage seeds now for Christmas cabbage in California?
Yes, I'd get on and start them now so they have enough time to grow in time for winter.
mine are red cabbages - lovely and lots of leaves, but not forming a head. is there something I should do to encourage that formation or does it just happen eventually?
It does happen eventually, yes. Cabbages like firm soil too, and this will help the heads to form. But usually it's just a matter of patience.
great tutorials Thankk you.
Should I remove the old leaves of cabbage to provide the nutrition to the new leaves to grow up faster.
Leave all the leaves alone until you harvest the plant. All leaves help the plant to grow. If any leaves are dying or yellow, though, they can be removed.
Ok