Plant cabbage six to eight weeks before your first frost to give it time to mature in cooler temps for sweeter heads. Keep soil moist, fertilize biweekly, and watch for pests like aphids or worms to ...

Cabbages are one of the easiest vegetables to grow year-round in your garden. But when it's time to harvest them, it's not unusual to find their leaves full of holes and the heads crawling with worms.

Plant ornamental kales and cabbages for texture and color in the fall and winter garden. I planted several varieties and placed them in containers, the garden and even a window box. Surprisingly, they ...

This is the time of year where we may start to see a problem with our cabbage plants. Just when we think we’ve got things under control after eliminating the cabbage worms and other assorted pests, ...

Our 2015 New Jersey State winner, MayLe’ Slater of Battle Hill Elementary School in Union, grew a beautiful huge cabbage (36.4 pounds). A great way to get kids into gardening is the national ‘Bonnie ...

As gardens fade in the final weeks of August, the rows of cabbage in our farm gardens are first reaching their days of fully developed heads for harvest. The phrase “of cabbages and kings” dates back ...

Lately I have been hearing a lot about cabbage steaks, a side dish made with sliced cabbage. Then, during this past Easter dinner, a guest brought cabbage steaks and I finally had a chance to sample ...

EAST TEXAS - I’ve heard from a couple of gardeners in the last few days about how their vegetables are growing after the freeze. For both, their cabbage was doing very well. Cabbage is an excellent ...

Not in recent memory can I recall a farm growing season which has had my dad still planting his gardens on Father’s Day weekend. Traditionally, by the Memorial Day weekend, the last of our flower and ...