Cabbage The King Of The Garden

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What is everyone's favorite thing about October? Well obviously it is all the cabbage that we can grow.

October is the perfect time to get your garden tools laid out on the back porch and get to work. Growing cabbage is easy and there are many different kinds to choose from.

You have the red heading, the green grenadier, the savoy, and the green heading. This is an excellent veggie to cook up in a stew with some ham.

It is also very fun to eat on St. Pattys day, because of the tradition and all of that. All in all, every day is going to be a good day for cabbage soup.

When you are starting to plant your cabbage you are going to want to till the earth heavily before you put the transplants in. Be sure to add a lot of compost and fertilizer in the solid.

You want to have soil with heavy drainage and a lot of organic matter. This is going to promote healthy vigorous cabbage growth in your garden.

It is easiest to plant these from transplant, so that is what I would recommend doing. The unique thing about these plants is that they need lots of shade.

So what you will want to get is a perforated net to put over the cabbage. These are also a big attraction to bugs and pests.

So be sure to put the net on tight so nothing can get in there. And if you do find something in there get them out.

If a bug gets trapped inside net with the cabbage, well that is going to be their little paradise. So you want to make sure the bugs do not take advantage of your little cabbage patch.

If you are living in the west plant your cabbage any time between fall and spring, but if you are living in colder climate you may have to plant them in mid-summer. Generally these plants like it a little colder.

You want to be growing these within a temperature of 70 degrees. So if you have a green house, setting the temperature to 70 degrees Fahrenheit would be the recommend thing to do.

For pH you want your soil to be around a 6 to a 6.5. This is going to be the optimum hydrogen levels in your soil for the cabbage.

Usually it only takes around a week's time for germination to take effect. Then a few months later you should have a full blown cabbage patch.

Have fun with your garden, and enjoy eating y our home grown cabbage. Keep in mind how much vitamin K it has in it, which is good for blood clots so you can sleep good understanding that.


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