How to Grow Cabbage - Tips from Seeds, Planting, Growing, Harvesting Cabbage

Well I hope you like cabbage because we're going to do four different kinds. See you in a few minutes. 31 days. 31 days we've been growing these um these uh cabbages from seed out in uh in the grow rack and um today it's time to plant some of them and also move some of them over to the uh hardening table. So I wanted to show you the status of the uh seedlings to show you how much they progressed. If you come up close you can take a look right here. These are the green ox hearts. You see how they've got the new true leaves coming out and they're getting some stem strength. They're starting to grow a little better. What I'm going to do with these I'm going to transfer these over to the hardening table and let them stay out on the hardening table for about a week and then I'll be ready to plant those in the earth garden. Here's our purple heart uh purple ox heart cabbage. As you can see it's getting some true leaves as well. It just needs about a week on the table the hardening table. Here's our regular cabbage. It's it's getting there. It needs some time out on the table to um to get some more direct sun so it'll be ready to go probably in about another week. Here's our Napa cabbage. As you can see the Napa cabbage is ready to go. It's it's got plenty of uh true leaves and it's got the strong stems on it. Plenty of beautiful true leaves that are nice and wide and really capturing that sunlight for their photosynthesis. So it's it's ready for the earth garden. They big boys now. So these right here I'm gonna put in a couple of rows of Napa cabbage and Nancy will come back later and she'll do um some make herself some kimchi and she'll do a movie on that on her uh her Asian redneck fusion playlist to show you kimchi lovers how she makes it. I can eat some of it but I'm kind of tender and I can't eat that real hot stuff so I don't usually eat the the spicy hot cabbage but she makes some that's toned down for me so because I'm her baby. Yep. So anyway today I'm gonna get to work out in the garden. I'm gonna put a couple of these these trays in and um there's no sense in uh walking through that process out there. If you'll take a look at our video it's it's called uh planting how to plant fall vegetables. It shows you the process of how I plant in the garden using the fish as fertilizer, the lime, the spacing every it's just step by step of how to use um fish as a fertilizer and how I actually plant my fall vegetables using plants that come out of starter cups like this and this year we grew them all from seed. We didn't have to buy anything from the nursery at all so except for the seed which we ordered from Baker Creek which is an excellent seed supplier. Got some really cool looking seeds there and good seeds so I recommend them. But this right here is ready to go and we'll be back in a week or so and we'll show you the progress of all the cabbages as they go out into the garden and how they start to progress all the way up until we chop them all and eat them the best part. So we'll see you in a couple weeks. Well I got all the cabbages all four varieties are installed and planted out in the earth garden and uh that they've been in the ground for six days. Unfortunately two days ago a tropical storm came through here and just 50 mile an hour winds and sideways rain and it took out a couple of them but we still have enough left where we'll be able to enjoy some cabbages you know in the days ahead but as long as we don't get another hurricane. But anyway here's how they look. The first row is um just the plain um the plain cabbage that you're used to seeing in the store. You can see the first one right down here. You see how it's been destroyed by heavy rains and wind but um if you look down the row there's a couple more down there that didn't quite get through it. But that's the first row just the plain cabbage. The second one here is the green ox heart cabbage. You can see them right here. Again there's another couple of them on the row that just got destroyed from the storm but they're still good. We'll get plenty to eat and I got a couple in the containers over there so we'll we'll get our share. And this third row right here this is the purple ox heart cabbage. This is a real good cabbage. It looked like it pretty much survived the storm pretty good. There's a one or two on there that a little a little puny beat up a little bit but we're good. And we'll walk down here to the end and I'll show you the Napa cabbage. These are two rows of Napa cabbage. This is the cabbage that Nancy's going to make kimchi out of. So this is really a beautiful plant. I like the color and the way that the leaves are nice and full. We had a little bit of damage from the storm but overall they survived quite well. I think they were blocked by the flowers in that barn down there at the end on that northeast wind. They didn't get quite as much of a beating as the other cabbages but we're real happy about them. So we'll be back here in a couple of weeks ahead and we'll give you another update here shortly and show you the progression of these all four varieties of cabbage. See you later. Okay the cabbage have been transplanted out here for five and a half weeks in the earth garden and I'll give you a little view of what they look like now. This first row right here this is our green head and cabbage and the next row over you can look all the way down if you want I'm sorry it's fun the next row over is the green ox heart cabbage and then this third row over here that's the purple heart purple ox heart cabbage and we've had to do a little battle with the cabbage worms so I've been out here picking and picking and picking trying to keep them off but the little white butterflies have been full full force on me. So if we'll walk down here to the end I'll show you the Napa cabbage and a couple of our container grown cabbages. Okay here's the Napa cabbage we got two rows of it if you can take a look down the row take a look down the row that's the two rows that we got going they're getting pretty close to harvest so Nancy will be coming out here to get that to make up some kimchi and it won't be long now. This is our container cabbage we have over here on where the old potato rack was we're using it for some some cabbage container cabbage in the winter these are all red cabbage down this row they're off and running so we'll be coming back and checking on them in a week or two as well. All right it's been six weeks since we planted our cabbage in the earth garden I wanted to give you an update this first row right here is the green the green heading cabbage and the one right next to it is the green ox heart you can see it's starting to form the core up and this last row here this is the purple ox heart cabbage you can see it starting to turn really beautiful purple. The Napa cabbage been going six weeks and we're gonna we're already starting to harvest that out today so I wanted to take you this last view of it down here you can see that it's really gotten pretty big and mature and you can see down there the end where we've already started whacking some of it out of there so we're gonna get all that today and Nancy's gonna make some delicious kimchi for us. All right we'll see you back a few weeks. Matthew was pretty rough on the garden it took out just about all the cabbage but the Lord spared some of them for us and we're thankful for him for giving us a few that we got and I'm sure they'll be really tasty and today I wanted to take out one of these purple ox heart cabbages they're such a beautiful heirloom cabbage so let me show you what they look like we'll take it over to the processing table we'll clean it up a little bit and I want to show you what these look like up close see you over there. What a beautiful cabbage that is it's shaped like an ox heart and the inside of it let me show you what they look like me and Nancy do is I'll simply put these in the pot and I'll boil these and one's for her one's for me that's a that's a whole meal for just me and her and it's such a beautiful cabbage very very tasty but we'll be back in a couple of weeks and we'll harvest another one of the cabbages that survived the storm so we'll see you back soon okay today I want to harvest a green ox heart cabbage which is my favorite one and I'm going to get one of our storage cabbages too and we'll have that for lunch so let me show you what they look like here's the plant itself it's here's the here's the cabbage so I want to come down behind it see how it's shaped like an ox heart that's that's really a good cabbage my favorite one ox heart cabbage let me get a storage cabbage but I'll take that with me we'll have it for lunch too rough year this year with the hurricane hurricane Matthew came through really had it was really rough on the uh on the cabbage but the lord did bless us with plenty to eat so we're very grateful and thankful for that so until I see you next time if you enjoy our movies our videos please subscribe to our channel and also you can follow us on facebook follow Samantha's Homestead so until we see you next time always remember by my hand we are fed give us lord our daily bread thanks for watching our videos we really love making them if you like our videos please like our facebook page to get the latest tips and tricks please subscribe to our youtube channel to get the newest video like it it would really inspire and encourage us but most importantly share to encourage others we welcome your comments and questions thank you have a blessed day