- 1). Fill 3-inch diameter seedling pots with a fine-textured potting medium. Water the potting soil until it is evenly moist throughout.
- 2). Sow two cabbage seeds per pot. Cover the seeds with 1/4 inch of potting soil and mist the soil surface with a spray bottle to moisten it.
- 3). Cover the pots with a plastic bag then set them in a warm room to germinate. Cabbage seeds sprout within approximately seven to 10 days.
- 4). Remove the plastic bags once sprouts appear. Place the pots in a window where they receive at least six hours of sunlight a day. Water the seedlings when the soil surface begins to feel dry to the touch.
- 5). Thin the seedlings to one per pot once they produce their second set of leaves. Cut the smaller, weaker seedling off at soil level, leaving the strongest seedling in each pot.
- 6). Transplant the cabbage seedlings out to the garden two weeks before the last expected spring frost. Plant fall cabbage crops outdoors six weeks before the first expected fall frost.
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