Varieties

NS 43, NS 160, NS 183

September, Pusa Drum Head, Golden Acre, Kaveri, Ganga, Sri Ganesh and Pride of India.

Planting

The ideal time for planting cabbage is from  October-November. Recommended seed rate is  600- 750 g/ha. Seeds are sown in nursery beds or in protrays and three to five weeks old (with 5-6 leaves) healthy seedlings transplanted to the main field. Trays should be filled with a mixture of well decomposed coirpit, perlite, and vermiculite (3: 1 by volume). Germinated seedling should be fertigated with 19:19:19 / 20:20:20 / 30:10:10 water soluble fertilizer @ 0.05- 0.2% depending as the stage of growth of seedlings. Seedlings will be ready for transplanting.   Prepare the field by three or four ploughing and the seedlings are transplanted on ridges at a spacing of 45 x 45 cm preferably in the morning or late evening. Before transplanting, the roots of the seedlings are dipped in a solution of bavistin @ 2g/litre. Clipping two third of the leaves helps to reduce evapo-transpiration losses.