What's up everyone? Welcome back to the Epic Gardening

podcast. We're back again with Kevin 40 of Giant Veg and today we're really

getting into how to grow an absolutely massive cabbage.

I saw this picture of Kevin's son Jamie standing next to a giant cabbage that they grew and

he looks absolutely tiny next to this thing.

I mean, it's it is so big and I'm curious Kevin how much it weighed but

maybe we could start out by just talking about how do you even begin growing a giant

cabbage where do you start how do you sow seeds? Like maybe we could just talk about it the whole life cycle of the plant.

Yeah, sure. So it was quite phenomenal cabbage that at the start, sown the seeds, they're just an ordinary cabbage seed that you get from a packet,

so you wouldn't really know any difference, but the genetic potential of that seed is there to grow huge.

The seeds typically would have been sown in November many years ago, but I'm not sure if it's climate change, but we've seen that the cabbages have been coming way too early for some of our September shows.

So what we've done over the last two to three years is we've been starting them off in January.

And on our Instagram page you can see now some of the cabbages that have been transplanted are pretty much

the same size now as they would have been started in November.

So for us they're grown in trays and then we will then prick them out and put them into three-inch pots.

They're then grown in those three-inch pots probably about three to four weeks and then they're transplanted then

What we do now is we use air pots or there's a new pot called air wrap and I really like this Ear Rap pot. It was launched back last year and it has a cone in the bottom which encourages capillary action.

So one of the issues with Ear Potts is they do dry out very quickly,

but this one has been absolutely phenomenal and it does retain the water

and with capillary action, the roots of the plants are being drawn to the moisture.

So we can feed with seaweed, so we use traditional seaweeds or we have our own compost tea.

And then that will then get the plant growing.

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