Cabbage Farming is popular for its adaptation to the soil varieties, climate conditions, and also storage productions. This is a complete step by step of the modern cultivation method of cabbage.
Here we describe the core things you will need to know before or after starting a cabbage farm. Check the whole post to find more information about growing cabbage.
Do you know that? Cabbage is a leafy & hardy vegetable and also known as a biennial plant. It is a great source of vitamin "C" and sulfur plus contains glutamine and amino-acid.
cabbage growing guide
The cabbage was discovered in a wild of Europe but the production has settled in the countries like Poland, Indonesia, China, Russia, Korea, Ukraine, Romania, Egypt, and also the United States, etc. Annually, 71.8 millions of cabbages are grown around the world.
Among this wide production system throughout the glove, 47% of them are produced by China. Cabbage works as an antibody in our body it is a cure for infections like constipation, gastric ulcer, cholesterol, and also repairing damaged skin cells. It also has some medicinal values as the antidote of deafness, headache, hangovers and stomach problems. It can also be grown in poly house, chlorophyll house, & containers too. Just because of its variety of advantages in human body cabbage farming becomes popular among farmers.
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starting your cabbage farm
A cabbage can grow 0.5-4 kilograms. Before planting cabbage farming, Learn the basics regarding cabbage cultivation process step-by-step. The first step will be choosing the best varieties in your locality. Check the local vegetable market and query the demand. This will help you to determine which varieties to grow in your field.
Soil and the weather plays a huge role which directly dominates the outcome. Caring plants is always a hard job. But learning the tricks can save your time and hard labor. Also, this is a good practice to learn the latest technology regarding anything you do.
If you want to grow cabbages organically, my suggestion will be to read this also: How to start organic vegetable farming for beginners.
As like another farming method cabbage is also vulnerable to pests and diseases. Dig to pests and disease control to learn about them.
As a beginner, I found myself in a deep ocean when I let myself when choosing the species for my garden.
There are surpassing types of cabbages like January king, Choy sum, Napa, Portugal, Pacifica, Lennox, Savoy ace, Huron & Earl Jersey Wakefield, Tropica Cross, SuperCross, Santa, Oxylus, Red Delight, Red Acre, Murdoch, Drum Head, etc. Different cabbages have various qualities based on several conditions like:
We know that the cabbages are popular for the adaptability with climatic changes and also soils. So firstly the soil needs to be well-drained. As they are greatly adaptive they can be plowed on sandy loam to clay.
US growing zone
Let's learn about the cabbage farming conditions, whether you want to grow it in a field or in our garden.
But it can also be planted in late winter and early spring at the temperature of 40-degree Fahrenheit. Because the germination procedure starts with this temperature. But some strong seedlings can undergo 20-25 degree Fahrenheit.
But in summer season they can be produced in coastal areas if the temperature is above 80-degree Fahrenheit. These seeds are anti-freeze survivors. Annually, in the horticulture field, every corps need at least 400mm-500mm 0f rainfall.
The perfect cabbage planting procedure depends on your soil conditions. But the process described below is the best method to cultivate this vegetable commercially.
If you are willing to plant seeds, check the "Climatic conditions for plant cabbage seeds outdoors" topics to read about the sessions and temperature.
Anyone can start cabbage farming but to be the success in cabbage farming you need to know the correct planting procedure. They are middlingly sensitive and soil salinity.
To nurture cabbages well 39-75 degree Fahrenheit is the best temperature. The seeds need to be kept inside before the last frost which is around 6-8 months.
The seeds will be grown in nearly 4 months after that they are planted outdoor before 2-3 months of the frost.
In modern-day cabbage farming, this is very important. Here some tips for beginners to adopt proper spacing.
Like other plants, the spacing of plants plays an important role in cabbage farming. Proper spacing can bring you greater profitability.
Planting cabbage spacing
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Let's learn about the universal planting procedure..
This is an important topic. When we starting to writing a guide for cabbage farming the first thing we completed is the caring process. There are several tips and tricks, that can save lots of your time. Because this is where farmers feel helpless. Feel free to ask any question in the comment box below.
The biggest preservation to look after the cabbages are watering. It is the hardcore ingredient to keep the plants combined.
As we know that the cabbages are the vast consumers of water and other factors they need to be side-dressed with composts, potassium, & nitrogen to keep the soil rich. After developing new leaves 20-20-20 can be scattered. It is prohibited to start the fertilization after 4-5 weeks later when the plants will be growing solidly and the germination procedure is over.
The cabbage is an adaptive vegetable but still, it can't endure dehydration. In winter season the procedure is done by interim irrigation which requires 8-10 days. But in the dry season has to be persistent and constant. A limited amount of water should be kept on the furrows to re-hydrate the corps in the dry season. Exceptional drainage system needs to made for rainfall conditions. Drizzle irrigation needs to be made for continents with less rain.
Weeds make the land a useless junk. They mostly damage the roots of the cabbages. The first elimination time for the weeds is after 2-3 months when there half-grown. the process is done by dredging. The drilling method needs to be precise so the plants don't get bruised. Along with this hoeing herbicides also helps to annihilate the weeds. And they are Alachlor & Metolachlor.
But I am afraid to say, Beginner farmers, do not realize the weeding procedure completely. Hope! you do not make mistakes. Note this instead.
Control the weeds in time, You should keep the cabbage garden clean in that time.
Alachlor is not as strong or, adequate as Metolachlor. But it helps to oversight the spectrum of the weeds. you've to memorize that this herbicide can't slightly be overused.
It helps with the depressed conditions of the plants.
As they are heavy feeders they also prescribe highly effective fertilization like potassium, nitrogen, phosphorus, composts, urea instead of ammonium sulfate for acidic soils. Fertilization applying limit for cabbage farming is 11/2 pounds per 100 square feet. Organic farmers will apply Organic fertilizers after 20-30 days of planting if it requires. Try to avoid fertilizers produced with human excreta.
For only conventional farmers, this will apply. Though it is against organic farming and bad for health. We suggest testing the soil and provide the needed vitamins to the soil. For ensuring faster and bigger vegetables use nitrogen, potassium and phosphorous.
While growing the cabbages the corps faces many kinds of diseases & pests. This diseases & pests reduces the color, essence, weight, quality and the advancement of them.
The pests that cause inflicts the to the corps are Cabbage worms, Cabbage loopers, Aphids, Cabbage root maggots, Flea beetles, Cutworms, Nematodes, Bagrada Bug, and American Bollworms.
The diseases that spoil the production are Blackleg, Club-root, Dumping Off, Downy Mildew, Leaf spot/Ring spot/Target spot, Powdery Mildew, White Blister, White Mould, White leaf spot, Wire Stem, etc. But the primary diseases are caused by Sclerotinia & Botrytis.
These catastrophic components cause devastation to the stems, wilts, heads, seedlings, flower and even an entire plan. But uttermost of the diseases and pest causes damage to the leaf and root.
Control: Chemical components like Carbaryl, Spinosad, Neem oil extracts, Permethrin and insecticidal soaps. But some of the diseases and pests attacks may not have the cure. In this regard, you can take consultation with your near governmental agriculture institutes.
The cabbages should be harvested when the heads are substantial and ripened. It takes around 71-88 days. The best way of harvesting this crop is to compress it by your own hand if you feel the strong & firmness of the head then your cabbage is ready to harvest.
Sometimes some adult looks great, healthy, & ripened but inside it's soft and unfit to be harvested. So don't judge the visualization cause it can be tricky to examine every single plant by your own hand.
Early produced cabbages weight varies 1-3 pounds. Firstly you need to cut the stem underneath the head with a sharp knife and detach the head from the plant but leave the leaves and other parts on the ground. A week later those leaves and other parts will form as a little cabbage maybe it will be small but it has a great flavor.
The storage system is one of the most important procedures in the field of cabbage farming. If the inhalation of they goes well the product loses its nature but proper storage system slows down the respiration. The temperature of the storage system needs to be 0 degrees or, 32 degrees Fahrenheit.
Moreover, the has to be at least 90% or, high cause if the humidity level is less than 80% them will lose its precipitation. Refrigeration is the best way to handle the humidity of the cabbage. It can be stored in the fridge for 2 weeks by only packaging it with plastic.
Furthermore, It needs to be dried out before the storage system. However, in the tuber cellar position, the cabbage can be refrigerated for nearly 3 months. They shouldn't be stored with fruits particularly with Apple even if the proportion of temperature & the humidity level is the same cause they exhale ethylene which discolors the cabbage.
Finally, If you are a beginner to cabbage farming you may face difficulties. Remember we are here! Bookmark us! If needed place a comment below. We would love to help you with growing cabbage. Well! do not forget to share this with your friends!
Cabbages can be intermix with onions to control pest
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Can you pliz forward this information to my email address,,,I will be berry greatful for that,,,the notes are accurate the will be useful if I had them
Good to know. I am a beginner and at least I have an Idea of it all. But I would appreciate if you can send me a brief presentation highlighting all steps in days and/ or weeks from nursery to harvesting, and any other recommendations, ie fertilizer types.
Asking questions are really pleasant thing if you are not understanding something entirely, but this article
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Can you pls post this cabbage production information into my Email address ?
1.I have 3 weeks old seedlings in a nursery what do I need to apply on them to become more healthy? 2.I have other small ones that i have already transplanted and they are 3 weeks old on the farm what do i need to apply to them?
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Comment .please my cabbage is two months on the bed because of land
Very informative article i am a new cabbage farmerwould like you to explain the idea of adding compost a time earlier to transplanting, what is the advantage?
Clarifying this...
You can apply compost when transplanting. However, if you are cultivating in a large land it will be time-consuming. If that period is too long it may hurt the plants that are uprooted from the seedbed. Regardless to say- When you are continuously growing crops in a field may cause a deficiency of nutrients.
Now, in this situation, you can either apply compost to the soil (if you don't grow inorganic) before.
Thanks now I know how to grow cabbages
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This really made me pay attention. The writing skill alone kept my interest. Thank you for sharing!
Happy to read this insight information. I am tilling the land for planting cabbage for the first time in Kenya.
I hope I will manage after reading your article above.
Informative.