The Secrets to Growing Perfect Brussels Sprouts!
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- čas přidán 2. 08. 2024
- Get ready to learn the secrets to growing the most perfect and delicious Brussels sprouts ever! In this video, we'll show you the best techniques for harvesting your sprouts at the perfect size, ensuring even cooking and amazing flavor. Say goodbye to scraggly stalks and hello to a bountiful harvest. Don't forget to subscribe for more gardening tips and tricks!
0:00 Intro
0:42 Cutting and Weighing a Huge Cabbage!
4:14 An Epic Brussels Sprouts Harvest!
8:16 Secret #1: Fertilization
9:33 Secret #2: Hybrids vs. Heirlooms
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Another fantastic video! I feel like i got 10 years worth of trial and error experience and info from todays video! Thanks for sharing! Cant wait to put it to use. I was about ready to give up on sprouts.
Cabbage weighing, ha! Should only weight what you plan to eat. Gardening in south east Texas. Most heirloom varieties don't do well. Good advice on the difference. All the brassica's require more feeding. I like your content, always good. Watched many, many of your videos while at Hoss.
Thanks very informative
I thought I would give sprouts a try again. It's been years. Never worked out. I was about to order Catskill which is the only one offered in my seed catalogue. Yikes. I didn't even know about hybrid. I'll look around now
I got my first 10lb cabbage this year it was a bonnie hybrid from lowes because i fell behind on my seed starting this fall
That one cabbage, I would guess, could have had some frost damage to it. Kinda looks like some of the vegs you see in the stores that have been kept in slightly too cold temps.
Wish I had pics to send of my Brussel sprout plants. I've always picked from the bottom (as needed), and by end of spring I'd have plants 4ft tall long twisted and still producing.
Very envious of your brussel sprouts. I had too much problems with them. Your's look delicious.
I like slicing them thin and making a salad out of them with some thinly sliced carrots, red onions, and broccoli sliced ,with some bacon bits and a sweet dressing.
That sounds really yummy!
Thanks for sharing your knowledge ❤
Great information. I have never grown Brussel Sprouts…..but you have made me want to try next fall. Thanks so much.
i think the brussle sprouts would be a good crop top put in a raised bed. what would be the best month to plant. i got a pretty bad back and a bum knee. it would be hard on me harvesting those.
Good info on brussel sprouts ❤❤❤❤
Hey Travis, I’ve never grown brussels sprouts. I have six plants growing right now so I don’t know how well they do with heat but here where I live in California by March it’s gonna be warm I planted those that I have probably November so I’m hoping they will sprout we’ll see, if not, I will plant them earlier next year
I appreciate your sharing your experiences with me brother. I think possibly some folks just want to be seed independent. In case they can’t buy seeds someday. But I agree with getting the best I can get every time. 🙏🏻
I would love to find out how big that variety will get where I’m at in Alaska. I haven’t tried growing big varieties for the reason of taste. Thanks for sharing 💚
I loved the cabbages so large great video 🇳🇿
You are growing some beautiful Cole crops! Because my garden is so small, I can’t afford to mess around with open pollinated plants, I need production man! I watch a lot of homesteader, prepper type channels and I know they worry about calamity and not being able to get seeds. I watched a video by Aldo Pepper where he grew out tomato seeds collected from hybrid plants and he ended up with usable tomatoes, just different from the parent plants, so in a pinch you could collect seeds from hybrids. It would be interesting to see what you would get from growing out the seeds from other hybrid vegetables! I think a big problem with open pollinated seeds is really poor seed selection, you really have to collect from the best plants with desirable characteristics, not just gather everything up! I watched a video from Johnny’s seeds where they took a poor quality open pollinated pepper variety and did careful seed selection over four years and brought back all the good qualities the variety had been famous for in the past.
Klaus
Can you freeze cabbage. Im just one person. Way to much fir me. 😂
Never heard of freezing it, but you can make sauerkraut!
I seen some purple brussels sprouts when looking at seeds this year . I like getting different colors in the garden
I grew those one year. They were decent producers.
Wow those cabbage heads are huge!
I was thinking the same thing! He’ll be eating good.
Johnnys has another hybrid variety that’s $6 for 100 seeds called Silvia that they say is similar to Dagan
where do you get these brussel sprout seeds?
Got them from Johnny's Seeds.
@@LazyDogFarm thank you!
Ist timer on Brussels, my question is is the round ball at the top edible , looks like a small cabbage
I don't see why you couldn't eat it. Should taste just like the greens off the side of the plant.
I planted 36 Brussel sprouts in open soil and 36 in soil covered with that black woven landscape fabric. Both were planted the same day back in early October. The plants in the bare soil are three times bigger than the ones planted with the fabric. Today I cut the fabric away from the plants. It was an experiment and I won’t use the fabric again. I did the same thing with broccoli, cabbage and cauliflower. Same result
That is a surprise. I use the DeWitt Sunbelt fabric. I have my entire 100 x 264 garden covered in it. I buy the 15-foot wide rolls that are delivered by semi. I use soup or coffee cans heated in fire to burn my plant holes. I have zero problems with growing big heads. I average 15 to 18 lbs cabbage, and my brussel sprouts are 6 ft tall by the end of the season. My big issue is cabbage moth, so I bend pipe and make low tunnels for every brassica.
But the weed fabric certainly isn't a problem. However, I pull up fabric every other year and amend it with chicken manure, and I have 2 runs of drip tape per row on each side of plant, which I fertilize heavily just like Travis does. I grow to preserve but also market sell, and that fabric is a life saver
@@OrioleHomestead maybe I’m overlooking something but it was evident in my garden this fall/winter.
That same lady just confirmed her 16 lb with the states weight and measures for her cauliflower.
I have heard that, in Alaska, there have been cabbages that grew to 50-100 lbs, but they have LOTS more sun during the growing season.
I’ve seen some big veggies up there
Cook them in smoker like cabbage and than make a beef stew soup with them,or smoke cream of mushroom with them yummy, replace broccoli with them make smoke casserole with rice sausage
We got weights in cabbage !!!
Satire folks dont get bent out of shape.
Travis did you have any pest pressure on your brussle sprouts?
If so what did you use?
No pest pressure at all on the brassicas this year. Very odd. Haven't sprayed them once.
I have never been successful growing Brussels Sprouts
First time growing Brussels sprouts. They're getting close to harvest ready. My question is, do you always remove each leaf under each ready sprout? What about cutting the leaves out before harvest? Or after? 🙋♂Too many questions?🤦♂ (🦌Deer season is over ,the freeze stunted my little back porch container garden, my fishing 🐟🚤boat is broke and it's a little early to crank up my seed 🌱starting indoor 'greenhouse'!)🤷♂🤷♂
I would only remove the leaves as you harvest -- just makes it easier to pluck the sprouts off the stalk.
What do you use to keep pests off the cabbage and brussel sprouts?
Haven't had to use anything this year.
Travis,
What do you guys do with all that cabbage? Lot's of saurcraut? Jusy curious! Beautiful brassicas!
John McHatton
We mostly just make cabbage and sausage with it. We also share a lot of it.
Hey Trav, what's a good variety of Jalapeno you'd recommend? I'm looking for one with good flavor and not too hot. You got some fantastic looking brassicas!
Hard to say because it's been several years since I've grown Jalapeños. I like Serranos a little better, so that's usually what I grow.
@@LazyDogFarm Ohhh ok, I'll see what Johnny's has. Thanks 👍
I see you are carrying the bug out. At least that’s what it looks like. How do you like it compared to the Osbourne?
I lost my Osborne back in the fall. Hated it because I had that knife for many years. I waited for a month or two to find it, but didn't. Visited a knife store in North Carolina while camping and they had quite the Benchmade selection. I liked the way the Bugout with the Grivory handle felt -- nice and lightweight. So I went with that one.
Because my Heirloom corn did poorly in my Zone 9B I am going with Hybrid corn this year. However, my Heirloom tomatoes were the way to go in my zone vs Hybrid. Go figure 🤔
GMO! Shame on you!
@dncarac Ah, why... because you should try alternatives? Whatever works for you, you should try. Maybe the Hybrid won't work and I'll have to try something else but at least I'm willing to TRY!
@@dncaracThere really aren’t any GMO vegetable seeds available to buy. Hybrids are the first generation offspring of two highly inbred parent lines, it’s just a tightly controlled form of natural plant breeding.
Blanch n out in freezer. Quart ziplock at a time.
I laughed when you talked about people cheating when weighing cabbage. The you weighed your cabbage and it was short of 10 lbs so you 😢rounded it up to 10 lbs- why not 9 lbs? Or 11lbs?😅
Oh the irony. lol
Not criticizing! Love your videos! An old man (72) can still learn from others like you!