Hi, Charles, it was me who sent you the Bulgarian cabbage seeds. The variety is called Balkan. There is a little yellow label on the back of the packet where the variety is written in English. My grandfather used to sow that cabbage in June - July, then harvest in October to prepare sauerkraut for winter. This particular variety is also suitable for eating raw as it is very juicy.
Hey Charles, another bulgarian here😊 Here is some helpful info about the Balkan cabbage. Cheers. Balkan cabbage is a high-yielding variety of white cabbage, suitable for late Polish production. Cabbage is round, large and fragile, with an average weight of 4-5 kg, with excellent taste qualities. Suitable for direct consumption and processing. The variety is resistant to blight. DISCHARGE INSTRUCTIONS: Vegetation period: 120-130 days Sowing: - Early: January 20 - February 10 - Average: April 25 - May 10 - Late: June 5-15 Sowing depth: 1-1.5 cm Distance: 60/30-40 cm
Yup. I was going to suggest Balkan, at least thats the word at the top. |L = Lambda, and the H is an N. But the big word at the bottom I couldnt read because its more cursive. CemeHa = semena, so I'm guessing "seeds" :)
Can I just say, your flowers are absolutely beautiful. Can you create a video just on your flowers? And make it a long video because I don’t want it to end😁 and thank you for this cabbage video it helps me learn more about different harvest times and varieties. Thank you!
Ive had mine in no dig beds since late april or early may and still no heads😢 3 yrs ago I discovered your content and it has completely changed my gardening for the better.😊thank you
Excellent video! THank you sir. I grew my first cabbage this year. For years I thought that slugs and cabbage loopers would destroy them but I had tremendous success thanks to all I have learned on your channel in the past years. Cheers !
What a gorgeous video! I've been looking forward to it all week and here it is! So much gratitude to you, Charles, for sharing all this wisdom. I've used every bit you've taught to create a new life for myself as a market gardener on a gorgeous farm. You've truly changed everything for me. May you continue to be blessed in all that you do.
Ahh, I always look forward to a 'Charles Dowding' video. BT is a good weapon to have in my organic gardening armor, I find that it works well when applied early before any kind of caterpillar infestation, it seems to deter the moths/butterflies from laying eggs. I just love the flowers mate, incredible 🙏.
Many of us in the US call caterpillars "caterpillars", not "worms". Especially ones that don't look like worms. :) Thanks for another excellent video - so much knowledge shared on your channel; I'm so grateful.
Beautiful video! Such a lovely format... cabbage knowledge and a look about your beautiful garden! Very appreciated... so enjoyable I keep coming back to view it again and again! Blessings on your growing season kind sir!🌻🐛🌿💚🙏💕
Hi Charles, Nice atmosphere in today´s video, a touch of feelgood seeing you in action, more of that, please. The footage and the choice of music beautiful as always. Greetings from Sweden/Stockholm.
Loved the video....I use cabbage all the year round, they give a nice change from salad by making coleslaw with a sour cream dressing & winter recipes are endless. Thank you for your ideas about them....always worth hearing !
Will be out first attempt at planting Fall Cabbage and cauliflower. We will be putting out our transplants on September first and crossing our fingers. Another enjoyable and educational video Thank You!
Great idea and we have done one in many summers previously, such as this one from 2023. The flowers are not much different to this year's, glad you like them. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-laqSyi7Wrjs.html
😁, Thanks for the motivation. I'll be inter-planting some cabbage seedlings soon along with other brassicas as some summer crops finish up and it cools off. It's still rather warm and dry here in Southern California, so I'm in no hurry.
Hello Charles, we're really looking forward to going to your Open Day at Homeacres on Sept 1st. All the best, Sheila and Nigel . Great cabbages, my step-grandmother showed me how to make stuffed cabbage in the 70s!
Excellent Charles. I've got Savoy growing in the garden & thier still young. I've just added some wildflower seeds to that spot & covered the lot with clear painters plastic sheet. Minty your such a beautiful girl. ❤❤
Really great information Charles! Love to see your garden flourishing. I can tell you that we have had a banner year for growing here in Newfoundland, Canada and the weather has been the best for all plant varieties. Lovely harvest ahead!!! Thanks for sharing your tips and tricks.
Thanks Charles, it's been a great year for brassicas, one of my Savoys sat on top a 2 gal bucket like an egg in an eggcup, baby savoy, savoy and broccoli got up to 16 Brix this yr
Great video! Your editing skills are definitely improving. Beautiful with the music and all the cuts showing other crops. In my area (Southern Oregon, zone 8b), cabbage and other brassicas aren't very successful spring sown because of our hot summers. So I sow seeds on the Solstice and transplant in mid-July. Theoretically. 😂 This year, its been insanely hot, I wasnt paying attention and the cabbage moths went to town on all my brassica seedlings, killing most of them. I replanted in July, sorayed them with Bt, like I should have to begin with😂, and I put my kale out last week, and just transplanted my cabbage, broccoli and cauliflower this morning. Hopefully we will have a mild fall, because in my experience, i only have till sometime in November to rescue my harvest before hard frosts kill it all. Gardening is certainly an adventure and different every year. 👍🏽
I'm in the US and grow Tiara, they are a small green round head, very tasty. I can plant them close even in pots. Could be a good option for someone with limited space or doesn't want/need a big cabbage. I have grown Kalibos, I think I'll add to next year's garden plan.
Hi Charles, thank you for your videos. For the fist time, I have sown few varieties of cabbages and there are a lot of caterpillars. However, I put mesh cover and sprayed bacillus thuringiensis on leaves , but nothing worked. So I hunt caterpillars and feed them to my goldfish 😊
Carly this video is beautiful. I can always tell when someone new has been filming (I realize this isn't your first video with Charles) You are doing beautiful work :)
Great video Charles, my brassicas are looking good this year thanks to no dig! You had a good plug from Toby Buckland and the National Allotment Society yesterday on Radio Devon 👋👋
Great info - thank you. Cabbage is a favourite of mine and I grow two types of ‘space saver’ varieties every year, one red one green. Plus a couple of Chinese varieties that I find fabulous for stir fries and salads (they can be almost ‘lettuce like’).
Esperando a Otoño Invierno para plantar las brasicas.La humedad y espero que la lluvia colaboren para una buena cosecha 😂😂 Saludos desde Tenerife!! 👏🏻🥬🥦🐝🥕🐞
I'm no expert in Bulgarian, but know Russian and my rough translation of the seed packet seems is "Green Bulgarian variety seeds", with the name of it at the top called "Balkan".
Sweetgarden, Charles, as always! I like cabbages big time, but slugs took away so much plants up to July that I‘m left with adolescent Cabbages only now in august. But I“m patient and the warm weeks ahead will work for them and I‘m looking forward to get nice heads in october to make Sauerkraut in glass jars with and without carrots, that‘s really tasty. Sadly I missed the date to sow my ornamental cabbages fot the second year, since it‘s only possible for two weeks in june. They‘re so beautiful and steadfast throughout fall and into winter, sometimes they carry on into spring and are also edible if grown organically. I really like them and I“ll look for some to buy at least. Greetings from Germany!
Definitely would like to try Balkan next year. Also, what is the red flowering plant? Google lens suggests it's hollyhock. But I have a funny feeling that it's something else.
Brilliant video, as always 👐 I was given some romanesco seedlings in may, but have no room for them so I've had to grow them in pots, they're doing well 😀 Thank you 😊
I very much like your style of gardening, but my allotment is too small so I only have limited space for compost making (one compost bin) also there are grass paths between flowerbeds, which I have to cut all the time and I have to fight weeds too. I managed to protect the plot against rabbits, also have lots of pigeons as we are near a wood. I sometime feel that it is a small miracle that I produce anything.😊
We are growing sprouts and cabbage in buckets in our greenhouse,they were doing well till we spotted caterpillars on them a few days ago,my hubby as been picking them off every day for the last few days.it’s a pain,but we have never grown these veg before so didn’t think about pests. Silly us! I just hope the veg will survive so we can eat it.😊
Hey Charles! My Hungarian Aunty used to make Cabbage Rolls for me growing up but they included meat. I reckon that you could substitute mushroom and still get a damn fine dish. I was digging into a no dig bed to prepare a hole for my new Jalapeno Chili and could not get over how easy it was dealing with a former clay soil which for the last two years has had compost put over it at the rate you suggest. I also learned something new I hadn't considered to add to the compost pile...finger nails! Mine are so much like yours now, lots of soil underneath, that I expect it to make a real difference to my compost pile. How do you have Mermaid Tale Cabbage and still not have a surfboard...sigh! Take care my learned friend! Cheers!
3 years ago, in addition to other varieties, I discovered Portuguese cabbage (Tronchuda), a headless variety whose leaves are scattered and can be picked as others grow. It is tasty and extremely easy to grow. Thanks for your teachings Charles, you are an example. Greetings from Romania! Next year I have in plan to visit UK, can Homeacreas be visited?
Interesting varities Charles! I grow some savoy but not an F1 and some heads are smaller and one just died prematurely in the summer heat so maybe I'll try a hybrid variety next year. I also grow a variety called Early Jersey Wakefield which is a pointy headed cabbage and comes in early as the name suggests. I live right next to New Jersey so maybe that's why it does well here. I actually have a half dozen heads or so growing currently for the autumn. Maybe I can make more saurkraut if they grow large enough!
Sevgili Charles hibrit tohum kullanman beni cok şaşırttı. Sagliksiz buluyorum f1 i. Ama senin bahçen her sekilde favorim sen her sekilde favorimsin dilerim her diktigin tohum istediğin verimi versin sana
Great video Charles! Amazing cabbages! Genuinely quite a hard vegetable to grow well! Where do you buy your bacillus thuringiensis? Is it the same stuff used for box caterpillars?
Thanks David. No Clubroot here, and even where I did a trial of cabbages for eight consecutive years in the same beds, I never saw it. I'm pretty sure it's a response to soil being over cultivated and with too little organic matter. Allotment holders have told me it disappeared after three years of no dig.
Thank you for sharing your excellent garden work. I enjoy watching your videos a lot and from them I have learned a lot. I am sorry to bother with a question I have for a while now and I hope you know what kind of cabbage it is? I saw one beautiful flowering cabbage/kale with purple stocks and very bright yellow towering flowers in Kyoto Japan in April a few years ago. I have that beautiful image in my mind ever since but couldn’t find out which kind of plant it is. I trust with your knowledge you may know the answer. I can send you a photo of the plant. Please let me how to proceed from here? Thank you a lot. Best regards, Helen Chen
Hi Charles! Excellent video as always. You’ve just turned me on to mermaid cabbage AND Fruition Seeds; never heard of either, so thank you!!! Question: What are the pink sunflowers up against your hoop house? (Seen at 13:51 ) Are they an edible variety? Is that one plant, or a cluster? Thanks! ❤
What is the gorgeous pink flower at the start please? Brassicas never quite make it on our allotment. We keep trying but not sure why they never come to anything!
Sadly my brassica patch looks like it has club root, at least where I had the cauliflower. Do you get that at all? I'm just wondering if there are any specific measures I need to take? Thank you for all you do.
How would you suggest to sow if you only want to eat one cabbage a week in the winter? Lots of succession sowing? Mine all seem to catch up with each other and come ready at a similar time and then I've got 5 cabbages ready one week and then nothing for a month 😢
Is true! However, in winter, new growth is much slower, so one planting late July, such as at the end of this video, can give you many harvests over two to three months in winter, best to grow Savoy cabbage for that
Cabbage is such a versatile plant. It can be the main course as stir-fry, a side dish stewed down with onions and carrots, a bread substitute such as cabbage fritters, a salad as with coleslaw and so on. - poor man banquet BTW, if anyone knows a dessert made with cabbage please let me know 😁.
Dobrý den. Máte úrodu na záhonech, nepřikrytou ochrannou sítí proti hmyzu. U Vás nelétají motýli, kteří kladou vajíčka na listy a vylíhlé housenky ničí úrodu?
Dobře vyhlédnutý. Ano, mám bílé motýly a housenky, ale stříkám půdní bakterie, Bacillus thuringiensis. Napsali jsme to na videu, měli byste to vidět! Dejte si to do vyhledávání a zjistěte, kde se dají nějaké koupit
I get lots of free wood chip on my allotment site. If I mulched my berries with them, do you think I’m exacerbating the slug issues? Or not really because it will be broken down by spring!
I put the name in the video, the active ingredient Bacillus thuringiensis, but what is called will depend on your country, I have no idea where you are and put that in search to find the appropriate product
Hi Charles, today I sowed cabbage in modules for spring harvest, as advised from your calender I purchased in spring. In the video you said you can plant to the end of July - which is best? Am i too late? Thanks! Edit: Im UK with a similar climate to you.
I’ve sown red cabbage and cauliflower in September and kept it under cover til spring for harvest in June. Useful if you don’t have the planting out space in autumn.
"spraying with soil bacteria"... is that compost tea or something else? I've dodged brassicas as I've had lots of problems with cabbage whites, but done compost tea for the first time this year.
😢 my dog seems to become vegetarian... she pulled out all my young cabbages to chew the tasty stems. Took a while to find out the cause... No harvest this year, I envy you Sir Charles😊. Personnally, many I tell you that the music is very disturbing to me, I would rather hear the wind breeze and the birds sing.
@CharlesDowding1nodig im in Devon what really can i get away with, when it comes to the temperature of my compost 🤷🏽🧐 this year it managed heights of 55c is that enough to kill most in England. First real year trying your method of composting 😅
I think I was put off cabbage by the boiled green nastiness we were served at school as kids. Thankfully, I've come to realise there are far better ways to cook cabbage (cabbage bhajees anyone?) & my main problem is most varieties are too big for my needs. Grew cheap Greyhound this year & they've been producing heads around 300g, which is plenty, as that gives 2 cooked portions & the tender centre is shredded to mix into salad. Maybe I should try growing later varieties at closer spacings for smaller heads in winter.
