Spring Cabbage Problem

[Cosmo and Dibs]

I sowed some over-wintering cabbage in August. I aimed to plant them out around now when they should have produced about 5 leaves.

However, I grew them in the terrible B&Q seed compost and hey have only produced 2 or 3 leaves.

Do you think it is worth planting them out or should I just bin them and buy some ready-grown ones from B&Q?

I will never use the seed compost from B&Q again- nothing has grown well in it this year.

[Two_Sheds]

Plant them out, they've got 2 choices

[rustylady]

I don't ever use seed compost. It only has enough nutrients for germination, and if you want plants to grow you will then need to feed them. I sow my seeds in B & Q multipurpose compost. However, I would plant yours out - they have to stand a better chance in open ground.

[Keith2202]

My spring cabbages seemed to grow quite a bit virtually as soon as they got planted in the soil.

[gojiberry]

I find that no matter what MPC I use, seedlings will only grow to a certain size (usually two or three leaves) and then just sit there doing nothing. I always have to prick them out and then they are away. And it doesn't seem to make any difference have thinly or how deep the compost is. I just resign myself to pricking out.

Ian

[Croila]

I've got eight spring cabbages growing in pots now that I grew from seed. I didn't have a clue how to do it, but I just put about three or four seeds in each pot, kept them in my very sunny, hot conservatory, in bog standard MPC, and they took off beautifully.

They're now planted out in their individual buckets from Morrisons, again in MPC, and SEEM to be doing okay ...

This is probably a dumb question but, Gojiberry, when you mention "pricking them out", do you mean transplanting the tiny seedlings on into a bigger pot? Before planting them outside in the ground?

Cause if so, I'm just wondering why mine did okay and yours didn't, given that I missed out this step? Between sowing the seed and putting them in their final pots, I mean?

[winstonwobble]

put them out they have two choices then mine went out yesterday although i did put them in the poly tunnel but some are going into the garden at the weekend

[Cosmo and Dibs]

Thanks.

They are now planted in open ground.....will report back.