How to Grow Cabbage

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2020

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Cabbage is one of those old-school crops that is easy to grow. It’s resistant to the cold, highly nutritious, and easily cooked into a variety of dishes. Growing cabbage in your garden is a great way to learn how to grow food in your garden, as it’s easy enough for beginners but can challenge even experienced gardeners. Plus, the impressive heads are eye-catchers, filling up garden beds nicely. Learn More: Growing Cabbage: A Guide For Great Heads Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 10% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello hello I am very sorry I have been a couple days behind on the
0:16.8	podcast lately guys but I've lined up some really awesome guests so we be
0:20.8	back to a better flow soon.
0:23.0	Today though, we're going to discuss one of my favorite crops of all time and that would be cabbage.
0:28.0	It is an old school crop. It's easy to grow for the most part.
0:32.0	You guys know who has been having trouble with
0:34.3	cabbage and that has been me traditionally because cabbage moths are one of our
0:38.5	biggest pests down here in San Diego but all in all it is a pretty easy plant to grow so let's discuss it.
0:45.6	First of all cabbage was domesticated in its current form in Germany. There are still
0:51.3	wild cabbage plants in Western Europe.
0:53.7	Brassica Olorassier Var Capitata is a close relative of other Brassica such as kale, broccoli,
1:01.3	cauliflower, and more they are all the exact same species, but they are different
1:06.3	cultivars, which is a really interesting thing because they look so, so different.
1:12.3	Your main cabbage varieties are going to be organized by their time to maturity.
1:16.0	You've got early maturing green cabbage varieties.
1:19.0	Those are 60 to 80 days.
1:21.0	You have your mid-season, 80 to 90 days, and then your late varieties 90 to 110 days.
1:28.0	Depending on your region, you can grow one and or multiple forms for a consistent harvest.
1:32.8	Remember, there's one way to successions, though,
1:35.2	which would be to continually plant new seeds
1:37.5	every X period of time.
1:39.6	The other way to do it is to just sew an early mid and late version of the same plant at the same time
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