in the plant profile series of videos today we'll take a look at Ferry's Round
Dutch cabbage just like the other cabbage varieties that I have grown I like
to sow my seeds indoors and this gives me about six weeks head start into the
growing season
and let's jump 45 days ahead these plants have been going pretty well I've
transplanted these cabbage seedlings into this container I'm growing two of these
in this container and as you can see the net is a very easy way to keep the
cabbage fly out of entering the cabbage leaves and then laying its eggs and a lot
of people do not have success growing cabbage because the cabbage worms or the
loopers they eat all the cabbage leaves and then they're discouraged to grow
cabbage again but this technique works really well try it out and you won't be
disappointed so the soil mix I'm using to grow these cabbage in
containers is the ProMix HP potting mix and this is done a good job
for me for a lot of vegetables that I've grown and in addition do this container this
container is about as deep about 10 to 15 inches wide I'm also growing this
cabbage in the ground I'm gonna do a comparison and see which cabbage does
better and you remember from my previous videos you would know the answer
to that by now I'm not going to go over all the details of the cabbage plant what
fertilizers to use for the cabbage what kind of watering schedule they need I have
covered this in my video on growing cabbages and towards end of this video
you will find a link to the video which will explain all the details of growing
cabbage in general In this episode I'm gonna concentrate on this variety of
cabbage which is the Ferry's Round Dutch cabbage and this is an excellent cabbage
variety in my opinion it's a prolific grower you can see that within
approximately 75 days of growing ots showing really good signs of growth the leaf
damage towards the bottom of the plant that you see is actually do some snails
that have been chewing on the leaves now as long as you keep the snail population
or the slug population a little bit under control
you should have no problem growing cabbage and as you can see this net again has
done a really good job of protecting the cabbage plants from the cabbage fly
which in turn lays these eggs this is one egg that got laid on one plant you can see
this caterpillar right here this is a cabbage looper and it really is a
voracious eater this is gonna feed on all your cabbage leaves So its been about
ninety five days since we've been growing this cabbage and when do you
know your cabbage is ready for harvest the way that I determined is by feeling
around the head of the cabbage once the cabbage heads are pretty decently sized
you can feel around the head and if it's hard to touch that's the time you can
start harvesting your cabbage So let's go ahead and harvest one of these cabbages
which i think is ready for harvest
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so here's our first cabbage harvest this is the one that was growing in the
ground you see one slug there that I just removed and this is a pretty decent
sized cabbage head and not on the biggest head that you would get about
still pretty good sized its about a medium sized cabbage head and its round and
pretty nice and this is what I like about some cabbage plants they produce
some nice firm head and this is the other cabbage that we will now harvest
from the container and as you can see the overall health of the plant in the
container looks a little better to me the cabbages a much better formed and
one of the cabbage head will be slightly smaller but again a very healthy plant
with a lot of leaves a lot of vigor and this is why I think they ProMix HP is
definitely a good potting mix to use I've had success with a lot of vegetables growing
and that mix and you can even prepare your own mix by mixing pear moss and perlite
and some lime so this is the other candidate for harvesting once again very
nicely grown garbage as you can see and we will remove the side leaves now some of
you have asked whether the side leaves are edible and yes they are able they're
very much a edible however I just prefer to get the head of the cabbage out and
use it I just find that the cabbage head is a lot easier to cook
compared to the leaves on the side so there we have that's our cabbage profile
for the Ferry's Round Dutch cabbage
overall a very prolific cabbage extremely nice hardy plant very firm
round heads and they were excellent to eat as well the flavor was pretty good
so this is definitely one variety that I can recommend So I'd like to know from you my
YouTube viewers have you tried growing this cabbage variety before or which is
your favorite cabbage variety to grow I'll see you again soon
happy gardening