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Healthy Home Economist / Archives / Gardening / Cabbage Harvesting Hack that Doubles Yield

Cabbage Harvesting Hack that Doubles Yield

by Sarah Pope / Affiliate Links ✔

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  • One Cabbage Head per Plant
  • Hack that Doubles Yield
  • Secondary Cabbage Size

How to harvest cabbage from your garden so that each plant produces multiple new heads to greatly increase the total yield.

purple cabbage head cut from plant stem

Cabbage is one of the best vegetables to grow in the garden. Heads grow to a substantial size very quickly especially if you work to ensure the soil is nutrient-rich.

And, if you grow more than you can use in a short period of time, cabbage is easily preserved for the remainder of the year as traditionally cultured sauerkraut.

One Cabbage Head per Plant

The first thing I quickly realized growing cabbage for the first time is that each plant only produces one head.

This is a bit of a downer especially if you are growing other veggies like zucchini that produce an abundance of fruit per plant.

I found it hard to believe that it was really true that each cabbage plant would produce only a single head.

There had to be a way to coax them to produce more!

Hack that Doubles Yield

When I mentioned this apparent drawback to a local farmer in my area, he taught me a hack that easily doubles the yield of each cabbage plant.

All you have to do is preserve a few leaves underneath the head when you cut the cabbage from the stem.

That’s it!

The picture above shows me harvesting a purple cabbage from my garden. Notice how I cut it from the stem in a place where a number of leaves remained attached.

Within a few days, the cut stem will start growing several smaller cabbage heads that will allow a second harvest in the coming weeks.

The picture below shows several new cabbage heads beginning to sprout from the spot where I cut the stem. This occurs within days of harvesting the primary cabbage.

cabbage plant growing new heads around cut stem

Secondary Cabbage Size

Now, don’t get too excited.

These secondary cabbages won’t grow to the same large size as the first!

However, taken together, these smaller heads will roughly equal the amount of cabbage from the primary harvest.

Isn’t that simple?

What easy gardening hacks to you use to increase your yield with very little extra effort?


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Category: Gardening, Green Living
Sarah Pope

Sarah Pope MGA has been a Health and Nutrition Educator since 2002. She is a summa cum laude graduate in Economics from Furman University and holds a Master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

She is the author of three books: Amazon #1 bestseller Get Your Fats Straight, Traditional Remedies for Modern Families, and Living Green in an Artificial World.

Her four eBooks Good Diet…Bad Diet, Real Food Fermentation, Ketonomics, and Ancestrally Inspired Dairy-Free Recipes are available for complimentary download via Healthy Home Plus.

Her mission is dedicated to helping families effectively incorporate the principles of ancestral diets within the modern household. She is a sought after lecturer around the world for conferences, summits, and podcasts.

Sarah was awarded Activist of the Year in 2010 at the International Wise Traditions Conference, subsequently serving on the Board of Directors of the nutrition nonprofit the Weston A. Price Foundation for seven years.

Her work has been covered by numerous independent and major media including USA Today, ABC, and NBC among many others.

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  1. Leather Halters

    Apr 26, 2021 at 11:13 am

    Nice post and great information you shared about harvesting cabbage.

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  2. colin canniff

    Apr 20, 2021 at 3:42 pm

    I love growing my own food but unfortunately I don’t have that much space to grow them but an elderly gentleman from church says that he could use a hand on his land to pull weeds/help plant and a friend of his said that he will probably give me a piece of land to grow some pumpkins. I’ll have to ask him if he uses any pesticides but I don’t think he does.

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