Cool nights and bright mornings –The best time to grow cool season vegetables at your home garden is right now. Cabbage and cauliflower, the most preferred cool greens has emerged from their fancy outfit to an essential ingredient of winter vegetable garden since the last few years.

  These short duration winter vegetables much demanded and nutritious with a crop season extending to 2-2.5 months, could be grown and harvested fresh from home garden with ease. The perfect season is of course November to February. Seedlings 20-25 days old raised from mustard like seeds are usually used for planting. Seedlings of cabbage and cauliflower at early stages almost look same. Now ready to plant seedlings are also made available by many agencies to reduce the havoc of raising healthy seedlings at home.

   A wide range of options are available for planting. Plant seedlings directly on soil or in pots, sacks or in growbags. Growbags of varied size....

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