Episode 657: Sowing Winter Cabbage, Tackling Allotment Overwhelm & Our April Book Review

About this episode

Richard discusses sowing winter cabbage, managing allotment tasks, and reviews a gardening book.

This week has been one of those classic early‑May weeks where everything seems to need doing at once. I’ve been sowing our Seed of the Month, tackling slugs and snails in the kitchen garden, trying to stay on top of the allotment before inspections begin, and finishing our April Book of the Month: RHS Can I Grow Potatoes in Pots? by Sally Nex. There’s plenty to share, so let’s get into it. From the Kitchen Garden This week in the kitchen garden we’ve been sowing our Seed of the Month: Winter Cabbage. I’m a little later than planned, but May and June are still perfect months to get these hardy brassicas started. Winter cabbages are one of my favourite crops because they stand strong through the cold months and give you that wonderful feeling of harvesting fresh veg when everything else has slowed down. There’s nothing quite like cutting a crisp cabbage on Christmas Day. Somvarities I recommend are: Winter cabbage Tudra F1 Savoy vertus 2 Savoy Di Verona I sow mine in root trainers filled with a good quality seed compost, making a hole about a centimetre deep and dropping in one seed per cell. They don’t need heat at this time of year — just a cool, bright spot in the shed. Once the…

People in this episode

Host: Richard

Topics covered

• Winter Cabbage
• Allotment Management
• Book Review
• Kitchen Garden
• Gardening Tips

Keywords

• Winter Cabbage
• Allotment
• Gardening
• Book Review
• Kitchen Garden

Mentioned in this episode

Products: RHS Can I Grow Potatoes in Pots?, Winter Cabbage, Tudra F1, Savoy vertus 2, Savoy Di Verona

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