How to Grow a Healthy Cabbage Patch

If you're wondering about how to grow cabbage, keep in mind growing a garden is like parenting, once you start raising the seed it requires some tender loving care to grow up right. If you're good to your cabbage, your cabbage will be good to and for you.

Growing cabbage as your vegetables takes effort that isn't too hard but it will require just a little bit more attention than the rest of your vegetables or fruits, especially in hot climates.

Typically cabbage patches require cool temperatures and can withstand frost and/or light freezes, usually they can survive below 30degree weather.
Your cabbage can't tolerate hot weather conditions, it only causes rotting or splitting leaves from the cabbages head. It's best to grow this vegetable during the early spring or fall seasons, that way your cabbage will become not only the first but also the last crop to harvest, depending on the weather of course.

Before we get ahead of ourselves let's start with the seeds. The best place to begin caring for your babies is inside the home.

Plant your seeds 4-10 weeks before the last frost so you can have enough time during the cold weather to get your cabbage going. Place the seeds about ½ inch deep in good sterile starting mix. Once your seeds have sprouted keep the soil slightly moist but never wet.

Good lighting conditions are important for any type of vegetables.
Once you have at least two sets of true leaves, let your plants enjoy some outdoor air. Allow maybe two hours a day increasing the time frame as the days pass by. Once your plant can withstand overnight exposure begin planting outdoors. Seedlings can be transplanted outdoors during early spring or late summer.

Late summer planting can lead to a winter or fall harvest, remember cabbage love cool weather.

Here's a secret about cabbage: The flavor of your cabbage improves after frost.

Once you and your cabbage are ready for outdoor planting, make sure they're about a foot or two apart in soil rich with organic matter. It usually takes 60-75 days for cabbage to mature; again depending on the weather conditions.
Be mindful of keeping your soil moist but not wet, this will only damage the plants roots and cause rotting or splitting leaves.

MEMO:

You will not be the only living thing to enjoy the flavor of cabbages. There will be a battle between you, insects, and rabbits, but if you fight fair you could enjoy your cabbage without the brutal war.

Planting marigolds around your cabbage keeps pest like aphids and cabbage loopers (larva stage of moths) away. Planting the marigolds also allow healthy growth without the harsh chemicals or pesticides.

Keeping an army of birds will ensure a low moth population.

But if you find yourself losing the battle of the cabbage patch, organic repellent or pesticides will do the job. Be mindful of the uses of pesticides and always do your research on the chemicals inside pesticides.

For rabbits make yourself a small fence cannot be penetrated through, it's the best possible way to keep bugs bunny away.

Http://www.harvestwizard.com/2009/01/how_to_grow_cabbage.html is a good place to check out tips for growing a healthy cabbage garden.

To mother or father a good garden, rely on your instincts and become harmonized with your garden. Plants are living organisms like you and I, they require the love attention and care as would anything else. The best results come from the best efforts, and there is nothing like putting in effort for great health. Here's to your cabbage patch!