When to start growing cabbage
How to Grow Cabbage - A Step by Step Guide
so something I got used to get confused
about at the star of people talk about
spring cabbage sauerkraut cabbage you
know what what are the differences and
when should we sow them yeah well you
get summer spring summer autumn and
winter yeah yes you could have it ten
months of the year in your garden if you
Sol now it middle of April if you saw
summer cabbage autumn cabbage and winter
cabbage all at the same time all today
you'll get them in succession okay
yeah so from one sowing you'll have them
ready from July onwards until January
the following year so they don't need to
be succession so if you choose the right
varieties so look the way we sow the
seeds is we have a modular tray and
finds he come first and then the village
of five rubbing the lumps away nice and
full overfill it first and then don't
compress the modules with your fingers
the only firming you need to do is two
three
firm banks and that'll settle the
compost nicely into it of course when we
cut off the excess compost we saw them
about fingernails depth or about one and
a half to two centimeters deep so you
make little holes indentations into the
cells I find it's the easiest is to put
seeds onto a piece of paper and with a
pencil or pen you put one seed in each
cell when you finished you put fine seed
compost all fill it again and then
scrape it off and that's it that's ready
it just water it in gently don't
overwater over watering is just as bad
as under watering because to see it's me
rot away and that's it probably about
four to six weeks all the cabbages
cabbage family tripe you know the
brassicas so-called yeah they're all the
same yeah I'm very quick to terminate
within a week and within four to six
weeks you can plant them out
the the cabbages are the one type of
vegetable that will forgive you anything
any torture in the tray you know they
are pot bound another vegetable might
react by bolting or really being angry
but these ones are perfect you know they
didn't grow out of it in no time we
plant them in fertile soil up to their
neck up to the first leaf will plant
them now quite firm and the spacing is
about foot and the bits the wider you
space them the bigger your head will be
I'm actually quite lazy Andrew I plant
nearly all my different types of
cabbages around now end of me that'll be
the summer autumn and winter cabbages
and the winter cabbages it just take a
little bit longer to mature yeah yeah
the summer cabbages are planted at the
same time but already in August autumn
cabbages in October and the winter
cabbages in December January the Dutch
cabbage Richard s red Dutch cabbage a
foot and a half right it's perfect so
size nine wellies will give you a foot
and firm planting again if you see the
soil the plant is struggling after a
while the top dress it with her poetry
pellets yeah but it might not be
necessary at all but we'll watch it and
see how it goes
first of all it's the most beautiful
plant isn't it but with any brass ok
look at any holes in the leaves and they
will be caused by the cabbage white
butterfly caterpillars so you just check
underneath either a cluster of yellow
eggs or the catabolism cabbage shrewd
fly would be another one yeah and but
you would have seen the plants dying
already yeah
it affects them more when they're small
after you've planted them and they're
still small it's it's the fly of the
cabbage root fly which lays its eggs at
the base of the stem and then as regards
feeding during the season do we need -
oh absolutely they're greedy what we
wanted leaves to grow fast so these
painted poultry pellets around us
poultry pellets will last for about
three months and that's the time then
heat they'll need it it's just a top
dressing class isn't it and then just
hide we give it a bit of a ruffle in
roughly at the soil and the rain will
take the nutrients and released him on
the cabbages yeah sometimes they can get
a little bit leggy and then you can just
earth them up like that right up to the
growing point what time of year would
you expect them then two former former
heart well they'll be ready now by
October and end in store for good few
months two months at least year as a
head
now we're back with our red cabbages now
we actually had to replant em because we
lost a couple of our earlier ones so
they're quite small but we're in
December now and these are going to be
absolutely perfect for your Christmas
dinner you can see that it's Harding up
nicely now we've got a good solid head
there so we're just going to cut through
here now as you can see now that's
that's a lovely head now what I love
about red cabbage I'm just going to cut
through this just to show you yeah look
at that doesn't that look absolutely
beautiful great for cooking blood adds a
lovely red color and texture to your
plate absolutely fantastic
