OUR PLAN TO GROW MONSTER CABBAGES!

Your right about the nature safe being hard to get. Obviously they don't know what a good deal they missed out on.

Hand talker !!

I use a spray bottle and spray them when the sun is not in heat so the transplanted plant can make it

I have some cabbages in my garden right now, been trying to get my hands on the nature safe fertilizers for various plants and i have a local rep apparently down the road but no distributors for it so im trying to decide if ill email them even if im a home gardener for the most part and see if they will get me some of the fertilizer.

Man..i got the worms this year..been hand killing using a lot of different killers neem dr bugs seven hand killing bt...nothing seems to get rid of them this year.

Been trying out alfalfa pellets as fertilizer to. Boost nitrogen in the soil to good effect. Used coffee grounds also work well.

I use Agrothrive and throw in some Jobes organic fertilizer at times too. Keep some 13-13-13 around for a quick boost if I need it.

Great

Is nitrogen same thing as ammonia nitrate

What to do when you pull the cabbage out and all of a sudden you got 4 small cabbage plant in one plant

Do you have a video that discusses the various cover crop mixes that you use?

Update, this did work for me to grow some monster cabbages, used the same stuff. I grew this chinese cabbage that we had for dinner last night, and it was really good, it was bizzarely heavy and fluffy too.

I been looking for this dude....glad I found your show.

Great video thanks for sharing

I also like mixing some kelp meal in with my fertilizing as an amendment since it has over 60 micronutrients and is broken down slowly

The browns and agrothrive are both fish hydrolysate (the Agro has the corn too like you mentioned). You want hydrolysate over emulsion because it’s not heat treated. It’s broken down by bacteria instead. The agrothrive has a ton of beneficial bacteria in it as well to add to the soil to help feed the plants. It’s a great product. And it reduces waste.

You also mentioned temperature and fertilizer. The pelleted stuff has to be broken down by bacteria. Bacteria is way less active in the cold so it takes a lot longer for that stuff to become absorbable by the plants in the winter. Another reason to go agrothrive liquid if you need a winter boost.

I’m a 10-10–10 kind of guy. I always have some water soluble fertilizer on hand too. I think my annual application of compost feeds the soil biology sufficiently (my soil is lovely). I believe that our adequate precipitation will prevent any buildup of salts in my soil. You just made me realize that I could do a better job of getting the fertilizer buried when I side dress! I really enjoyed watching this episode!!!!

My cabbage are growing like weeds. The only fertilizer I've used is rabbit poo. I've put about 2-3" of poo and mixed it in about a week before i planted and a cup of poo in the holes as i planted them. So far i haven't anything else. I'll be adding more around Christmas. I figure that's good. That's for my broccoli and cabbage plants. The good thing is my rabbits are messy eaters so I've also got rabbit feed mixed in the poop. And also has some urine on it too. So i figure I'm good.

Good informative video Travis I use the alfalfa pellets to side dress my plants and so far so good they seem to be responding well. I also use 5-1-1 fish emulsion to feed my soil and plants and have had good results with that as well.🌱🌿

As a side dressing I use L.A.N(LIMESTONE AMMONIUM NITRATE) OR sometime UREA. Nice illustration thanks

Mealworm castings absolutely wonderful fertilizer/soil amendment and cow horn manure aka biodynamic 500

Thanks for the info, Travis.

Don’t know if you ever watched him, but OAG died Nov 2.

This might be your best vid yet. Before I plant, I put down an inch or so of my home made compost, then some plain old Espoma all purpose organic fertilizer in the planting furrow or hole. My garden is small, 30x30 in 11 raised beds, so I’m also able to keep it mulched which helps feed the micro herds and worms.

Charles Dowding in England, is a market gardener. He does the no till style garden for yrs and yrs. Check him out.
You have a nice garden.

My issue is rabbits🐇🤬

Yo Travis I ordered some of this stuff right before you made this video. It says on the 7/7/7 water soluable to put .5-4 lbs of it per gallon of water, doesnt sound correct to me? How much of that in terms of cups, table spoons would you add to a 2 gallon watering can for fertilizing plants that way? Thanks <3

I feed my cabbages and brassicas fresh turkey manure and mulch with green grass clippings. Seems to give a good nitrogen boost. You need realllllly good soil to not need to add something.

Are there local sources of fertilizers instead of just online?

very well explained travis..

We use straight urea its almost instant fuel for brassicas. 46-0,0,

I use urea water soluble granules 46-0-0 side dress with just a little bit and it makes brassicas pop and jump up in just a few days, gotta be careful with it not to over do it 2.5 cups/ 100 sq ft.

First time growing Brussels sprouts. How would you fertilize them?

I use basic 10-10-10 from the Co-Op but I also buy the 46-0-0 urea nitrogen. In the spring/summer I mix the 46-0-0 with the 10-10-10 and use this for top dress on just about all my above ground crops. Corn, beans, peas, tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers.. In the fall I use it on the brassicas. Collards, Mustard, Broccoli, Napa cabbage, Dutch flat cabbage, romaine... Just about all of them really get a huge bump with this. Keep the videos coming Travis. Love your work!!!

Not purslane... it looks like a green Grand daddy long legs but with more legs, all sticking upwards and then it grows little white flowers and seeds out. Keeps growing "lacing" outwards. If I could name it, I'd call it a Spider Wort. 😞

How would you recommend using the organic fertilizers when growing onions

My Red Russian Kale and broccoli seedlings are not growing well. They're staying small in the seed cells, (1" or so). I planted them on October 8th. We've had a lot of rain. I really can't water with fish emulsion. Should I up pot them and then give them a little fish emulsion? It's still a little warm here in central Florida, could that be why they're growing so slow? I want my greens. Please advise. Thanks

I'll admit it, my favorite fertilizer is the blue stuff. Everything I grow has to live it's entire life in a container; 3 gallon pots, Earthboxes, or 30 gallon cattle feed tubs. I live in a wooded residential area. There are 80' pine trees and 60' oaks and sweetgums surrounding my side yard garden. My original raised beds were quickly overtaken by the feeder roots from all these trees. They ate up all those good groceries I fed my vegetables. When I converted to containers about 20 years ago I tried to grow good soil, but that just doesn't work in containers like it does in situ. At the beginning of each planting season I add garden soil to the containers that need a top up and amend with the Naturesafe 8-5-5. My soil acts more as a medium to hold the plant than a food source. Since I do intensive gardening I pack a lot into each container. For example, right now I have 4 Earthboxes which each hold 2 cubic feet of soil and each box has 6 cabbage plants. When I fertilize I need to get a lot of food into a limited area , and it needs to be available immediately. Every 3 to 5 years I empty and clean each box and fill it with fresh soil to deal with any build up of salts.

Get a massive dose of local steer/cow manure (hopefully weed and chemical free) onto blackberries and related berries

I am lazy. My daughter and I just throw out a few handfuls of my balance organic over the whole bed. The only time I am exact is if I am using liquid because it is more intense and expensive. I do hill with fresh compost at times like how you side dress. It is making compost season here with all the leaves and leftover pumpkins that I get from my neighbors :)

I use agrothrive love it thy have a pump that puts out 1 once. Per pump for the 2.5 gal containers

Thank you!!!!

Braves getter did !

As always, good advice!

We grew HUGE Cabbage last year in our front yard flower bed on the South side against the house.

Tip: We used the large leaves to stuff.

Jar of favorite marinara.
1 cup cooked rice
1 egg
1 pound Italian Sausage
Cabbage Leaves


Steam leaves 5 minutes
Mix egg, rice, 1/2 cup marinara, and sausage.
Stuff leaves in to an egg roll shape.

Place in a greased casserole dish. Put a thin layer of sauce on bottom. Place rolls then top with remaining marinara. Baked covered at 350 for 50 minutes to an hour.
Delicious

I tried to wipe my phone off 3 times and it wouldn't come off. Looked like you had a extra tooth floating around by your mouth. Lol..... Don't know what it was but it went away.