Vegetable Garden – Tips on Growing Cabbage from Seeds

• Cabbage Seeds Depth: ¼" (6mm)
• Germination soil temperature: 55-75º F
• Days to Germination: 5-12
• Sow indoors: 4-6 weeks before last frost
• Sow outdoors: 10-12 weeks before first frost (for fall crop)

• pH range: 6.2-7.5 (7.2-7.5 to inhibit club root)
• Growing soil temperature: 60-65º F 
• Spacing in beds: Early varieties 12", late varieties 18".
• Watering: Heavy from planting to head formation, then moderate.
• Light: Full sun for best yield, tolerates partial shade.
• Nutrient requirements: N= high, P=high, K=high

• Avoid following cabbage family plants.
• Good Companions: Bush beans, beet, carrot, celery, cucumber, dill, kale, lettuce, mint, nasturtium, onion family, potato, rosemary, sage, spinach, thyme and tomato.
• Bad Companions: Pole beans, strawberry.
• Plant fall cabbage 6 to 8 weeks before the first frost.
• Growing plants that have been exposed to cool weather become "hardened" and are tolerant of frost.
• Cabbage that matures in cool weather is deliciously sweet.