Starting your cabbage crop.
As soon as the young plants are large enough , in with the hoe. The idea is to keep the soil loose.
The old rule with growers is to hoe cabbage three times during their life, and it is well to mind it, if you want to grow a great crop. However if the your soil is not in good hart then the crop will bake and you would be well to hoe more often. However, I fine, hoeing when the ground is wet, I get a better result.
If you get no rain for a weeks and then a downpour, this could make the cabbage bust its head. If you see this happening; go along the row and push the cabbage from one side. This will make the plant regrow and stop busting its skin.
You may well end up with getting bigger cabbage that normal. This practice is know as ‘ starting ‘.
The more hard-heading the variety is, the better the result with ‘ starting ‘ you will have.
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