90 VEGETABLE GROWING PROJECTS 



12. Hardening the plants. 



13. Growing late plants. 



14. Preparing the garden soil. 



15. Planting in the garden. 



16. Companion cropping. 



17. Cultivating. 



18. Combating insects and diseases. 



19. Harvesting and marketing. 



20. Storing the late crop. 



1. Why grow cabbage ? — Cabbage is one of the most impor- 

 tant of the vegetable crops. It is seldom omitted in the home 

 garden and enormous quantities are grown for commercial pur- 

 poses. There are well-known cabbage-growing districts in various 

 parts of the North, and millions of crates of early cabbage are 

 shipped to the North annually from the southern states. It is 

 also one of the leading crops of market gardeners and truckers 

 who are operating near all of our larger centers of population. 



1. Will it pay you to grow cabbage ? Early or late ? 



2. Are markets available where you can sell your crop ? 



3. What is the eommercial importance of cabbage? C : 161. 



4. In what parts of the country is early cabbage most largely grown f 



Late cabbage? 



5. What is known about the history of cabbage f 



6. What are its chief botanical characteristics? 



2. Selecting location. — Cabbage has been grown successfully 

 on the greatest diversity of soil types. The sandy loams are un- 

 questionably the best adapted to growing an early crop, while the 



