Sowing Season: Best grown in winter, even it suits to grow throughout the year.

Sowing method: Cabbage plant is grown by transplantation method because the seeds are small in size, seeds are first sown indoors in seedling trays or outdoors on seed beds & later the seedlings are transplanted into the containers or in raised beds. Seedling trays/ seed cups/ small poly bags or raised seed bed are used for growing the seedling in growing medium like coco peat (Indoors) Fine soils (outdoors)

Take a seedling tray with medium sized cells & drainage holes at the bottom & fill the cells/cups with a moist coco-peat medium, hold the cabbage seeds and sow 2-3 seeds per cell/cup, do not sow them deep.

Put the seeds on the surface of the medium & push each seed a little inside the medium by using pencil tip, so that seeds are not visible on the surface anymore & cover it with more coco-peat & keep the seedling tray indoors till the seeds germinate by covering the tray with paper for first 4-5 days to encourage faster seed germination.

Water the seed cells with a spoon in the first week. Provide two tablespoons of water every day. Or keep the seed tray in another tray full of water for half an hour so that the water will be absorbed by the seed cells from the bottom via drainage holes.

Seeds will germinate within the first 6-8 days & tiny sprouts will be visible. Once seeds germinate, put the tray on an open partially sunny spot near the window. Don’t cover the tray anymore.

After the second week onwards, seedlings will start growing into a small plant. At this stage exposé the seedlings to more & more sunlight for leaf growth & even keep only single seedlings per cell/cup by cutting off the weak, small & lagging seedlings with scissors.

After 30 to 35 days of seed sowing, your seedlings will be ready to transplant in container pots, choose a container with a minimum depth of 8 inches & bigger spread area (according to available space & your requirement like big Trays or crates, Ideal planting mixture for Cabbage is 1 part garden soil, 1 part coco-peat & 1 part Vermicompost OR 2 part of garden soil & 1 part Organic Manure.

Transplant the seedling along with the root ball of a medium, without disturbing its roots with minimum 2 feet apart (60x60 cm), from each other on raised beds or in a container.