My husband and I live in extreme northern California. We live off grid and our home is powered by solar panels and a wind generator.
When harvesting your brassicas, leave the root in the ground with a few leaves still attached. In a few weeks time you will find you have tiny cabbages sprouting out from the stump which can be used as spring greens in late summer! Also baby cauliflowers and broccoli sprouts.
Cabbage white butterflies are a menace. They lay numerous eggs on the underside of the leaves of cabbage, cauliflowers, brussel sprouts, broccoli, and other brassicas. The caterpillars that subsequently hatch can easily eat their way through your whole crop.
A photo of my son Joseph with a "cabbage as big as his head" grown in our last year's garden.
Can you grow cabbage in a pot?
Hardiness Zone: 7a
I am, but they haven't turned into a head yet. Last year the ants ate them, and the leaf borers got in. This year I surrounded them with marigolds and the leaf borers got them instead. Mine are in separate pots which I made from old wastebaskets.
Cantate in Japan
This is a page about growing brassicas. The plants in this genus are members of the mustard family and include, cabbage, broccoli, kale, Brussels sprouts, and cauliflower.
How do I deal with green fly and cabbage butterflies?
By H.Hanson