White cabbage

A white cabbage plant of almost 3 kg in the midst of winter. This cultivar of cabbage can withstand several nights of freezing temperatures.

Preventing clubroot

Today i planted white cabbage plants. They were pre-sown in the greenhouse. Cabbage can suffer from infections by a single-celled organism called Plasmodiophora. The disease is called clubroot and can affect species of the mustard family, Cruciferae or Brassicaceae, such as cabbages, radishes and turnips. Clubroot causes tumors in the roots and can block growth of the plant and even cause death. Clubroot can easily be prevented by adding a handful of agricultural lime to the planting hole. I always dig a hole some 50 cm deep and fill that with a half a bucket of compost, a handful of lime, a handful of bentonite and a handful of lava dust. The organism that causes clubfoot doesn't like lime, but cabbages do. Originally cabbages come from a wild species that grows at beaches near seas and oceans.

Gallery

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  Preparing sauerkraut from white cabbage. The entire (soft type of) white cabbage is kept under water with sea salt for about two months. Salt should be ca 2.5 % of the entire weight. You can add garlic and pepper as the Turks sometimes do and it is similar to kimchi.

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  Kimchi made from fresh products of my garden, green onions, garlic, two types of radish, cabbage, and sambal (a hot pepper sauce to replace the fresh peppers that aren't ready to harvest yet), sea salt, standing for three hours. Delicious and healthy and still better the next day!

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  White cabbage seeds

See also

• Gardening courses
• Knowledge base:Gardening

External links

• Cabbage Wikipedia
• White cabbage Wikipedia