Grow cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, and kohlrabi from seed to harvest with one practical guide built around the decisions that make brassicas succeed: timing, temperature, soil, moisture, nutrition, crop rotation, pest prevention, and harvest.
These five cool-season vegetables belong to the same brassica family, but they do not grow exactly the same way. Cauliflower can form small or loose curds after stress; broccoli heads lose quality in prolonged heat; Brussels sprouts need a long season and cool finishing weather; kohlrabi becomes coarse if harvest is delayed; and cabbage heading, maturity, and storage depend heavily on cultivar and timing. This book explains those differences clearly so you can plan each crop for the conditions in your garden.
Learn how to grow cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, and kohlrabi from seed, including seed starting indoors, direct sowing, hardening off, transplanting, plant spacing, soil preparation, soil pH, watering, fertilizing, mulching, succession sowing, and spring and fall planting schedules. Seasonal timing guidance shows how to work backward from harvest and use frost dates, days to maturity, and temperature windows more effectively.
Detailed crop-protection chapters cover cabbage worms and other caterpillars, cabbage root fly and cabbage maggots, aphids, flea beetles, slugs, clubroot, downy mildew, Alternaria, bacterial diseases, and common physiological disorders. Diagnostic guidance helps you tell pest damage, disease, nutrient imbalance, heat stress, cold injury, and watering problems apart before choosing a response.
Crop-specific sections show what to look for when forming firm cabbage heads, compact cauliflower curds, tight broccoli heads with productive side shoots, firm Brussels sprouts, and tender kohlrabi stems. Harvest, postharvest handling, storage, and freezing guidance helps you protect quality after picking.
Inside you will find practical tables, planting and spacing references, maturity guidelines, troubleshooting checklists, and 21 black-and-white illustrations.
Designed for home gardeners and beginning growers, this is a practical seed-to-harvest reference for five major brassica crops - useful for spring gardens, fall vegetable gardens, and anyone who wants more reliable cool-season harvests.
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. Learn how to grow cauliflower, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, and kohlrabi with one practical guide for home gardeners. Inside, you will find clear step-by-step instruction on growing cauliflower from seed, when to plant cauliflower, starting and transplanting seedlings, spacing, watering, feeding, and harvesting each crop at the right stage. The book also explains how to grow broccoli for strong central heads and side shoots, how to grow Brussels sprouts for firm well-filled stems, and how to grow kohlrabi without woody swollen stems. If you want a cauliflower growing guide that also covers the related brassicas gardeners often grow in the same season, this book gives you a practical system from sowing to harvest. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9798259237100
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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Grow cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, and kohlrabi from seed to harvest with one practical guide built around the decisions that make brassicas succeed: timing, temperature, soil, moisture, nutrition, crop rotation, pest prevention, and harvest. These five cool-season vegetables belong to the same brassica family, but they do not grow exactly the same way. Cauliflower can form small or loose curds after stress; broccoli heads lose quality in prolonged heat; Brussels sprouts need a long season and cool finishing weather; kohlrabi becomes coarse if harvest is delayed; and cabbage heading, maturity, and storage depend heavily on cultivar and timing. This book explains those differences clearly so you can plan each crop for the conditions in your garden. Learn how to grow cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, and kohlrabi from seed, including seed starting indoors, direct sowing, hardening off, transplanting, plant spacing, soil preparation, soil pH, watering, fertilizing, mulching, succession sowing, and spring and fall planting schedules. Seasonal timing guidance shows how to work backward from harvest and use frost dates, days to maturity, and temperature windows more effectively. Detailed crop-protection chapters cover cabbage worms and other caterpillars, cabbage root fly and cabbage maggots, aphids, flea beetles, slugs, clubroot, downy mildew, Alternaria, bacterial diseases, and common physiological disorders. Diagnostic guidance helps you tell pest damage, disease, nutrient imbalance, heat stress, cold injury, and watering problems apart before choosing a response. Crop-specific sections show what to look for when forming firm cabbage heads, compact cauliflower curds, tight broccoli heads with productive side shoots, firm Brussels sprouts, and tender kohlrabi stems. Harvest, postharvest handling, storage, and freezing guidance helps you protect quality after picking. Inside you will find practical tables, planting and spacing references, maturity guidelines, troubleshooting checklists, and 21 black-and-white illustrations. Designed for home gardeners and beginning growers, this is a practical seed-to-harvest reference for five major brassica crops - useful for spring gardens, fall vegetable gardens, and anyone who wants more reliable cool-season harvests. N° de réf. du vendeur 9798259237100
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. Learn how to grow cauliflower, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, and kohlrabi with one practical guide for home gardeners. Inside, you will find clear step-by-step instruction on growing cauliflower from seed, when to plant cauliflower, starting and transplanting seedlings, spacing, watering, feeding, and harvesting each crop at the right stage. The book also explains how to grow broccoli for strong central heads and side shoots, how to grow Brussels sprouts for firm well-filled stems, and how to grow kohlrabi without woody swollen stems. If you want a cauliflower growing guide that also covers the related brassicas gardeners often grow in the same season, this book gives you a practical system from sowing to harvest. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9798259237100
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