When to start cabbage seeds indoors
How to Grow Cabbage from Seed
all right so I'm going to be starting
some cab that today just want to show
you how I do it's pretty easy I've taken
these sales and fill them with some
potting mix it's an all-purpose potting
mix that I use you can see it over here
over there and it does have fertilizer
in it
you don't really need that and if you
want to use organic stuff you can but
this works for me so that's what I use
so anyway I'm going to be so in some of
these this is some cabbage I've never
grown before it's called early golden
acre and supposed to get two to three
pound heads on it so that's a good size
for us and let me show you what I do if
you look down here I can zoom in here
look down into those first few cells you
can see that I've put a little hole in
there and what I use is this little
screwdriver so so I just take the
screwdriver and make a little hole now
these cabbage seeds are tiny and they do
not have to be planted very deep let me
show you what they look like
now small those are so I'll actually
take two maybe three sometimes four
first sale and put them in there and
though you know most of them will
germinate and I will once they get to a
decent size I'll take my scissors and
just clip clip some of the plants off
leave one per sale and then you got your
cabbage so let me just show you here
take three of these drop them in there
so tiny you don't want to forget which
cells you planted so far so so far
I don't know how many cabbage seeds you
get in a package like that but if you
can grow your own cabbage from seed for
one it's so much better and it's easy to
grow and it's cheap I mean you go to the
grocery store I'm not sure I'd bought
cabbage in a long time but I'm sure it's
a it's more than about a nickel a seed
or a nickel ahead which is about what
you do about what you get for your money
when you grow on yourself anyway they're
in there and what I usually do is maybe
push them down just a little bit cover
them up with some soil and then put one
in that sale
take the soil around or the potting mix
around them they're in now it looks like
you don't have enough soil on top of
them you can take a little bit just
sprinkle it on the top make sure you got
them cover it up and I'll usually tap it
down a little bit to make sure their
cover it up good so they're ready these
seven yes so on the rest of this flat
here but just want to show you how I do
it and then I'll just take some fresh
rainwater and water these in really good
and also this is so hot in my greenhouse
I will take some water and fill up this
tray about halfway and the soil here the
potting mix will actually absorb the
moisture as the plants need as they dry
out as the potting mix dries out so
there it is I got 12 early golden acre
and I'm going to be labeling that I
usually take my little marker this is a
fancy marker here
I'll take this and snap it off write it
on there stick it right there and then
what I'll do since I'm going to be
sewing something different from here on
over I'll do that so I know that these
twelve are the early grown a pair these
are probably gonna be broccoli
cauliflower just like that and that's it
pretty easy these will be up in what
you're looking at is what would happen
about five days later what the plants
would look like five days later I sewed
these on June 30th this July 4th and so
you can see this is a this is obviously
not the same seeds that I just just put
out on July 4th but anyway you can see
how kind of thick some of these have
come in and that's okay I actually
wanted that to happen because I'm going
to choose the healthiest one of the
bunch
whenever I transplant these into larger
containers so what I will do eventually
it's coming here and let's say I want to
keep this one I will take these and cut
them off right at the base so I'll have
one plant per sale and the other ones
I'll just take out as I clip them off
and that way you don't disturb the roots
of this one and the other plants the
other little tiny seedlings they just
die off and you're left with one little
seedling so anyway it's a good way to do
it
cabbage seeds are so tiny figure out you
know figure that this is the easiest way
to do it and you know you get pretty
good germination with this stuff I may
have a few well this whole tray has all
germinated this one has not quite yet it
also depends on the variety these are
early Jersey Wakefield I can see and
these are Copenhagen cabbage these are
all cabbages
these are all cabbages as well and you
can see some of those germinated and
some have not yet and then these are
collard greens and it looks like they
have all but one maybe that one back in
there is not germinated yet so anyway I
hope this helps thanks for watching
