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Look at this amazing cabbage in this picture. How does a person grow cabbage like this.

I give up growing cabbage in TN.

Is anyone having success growing cabbage ?

I wonder if I can grow cabbage in 2 gallon pots inside the house.

Your question reminded me of an article that left me with an impression that the biggest giantess ones are grown where they have extra-extra long days during the summer like Alaska and northern UK or Scandinavia ... I found it — it was from 2014:

Why Vegetables Get Freakish In The Land Of The Midnight Sun : The Salt : NPR

Everything in Alaska is a little bit bigger — even the produce. A 138-pound cabbage, 65-pound cantaloupe and 35-pound broccoli are just a few of the monsters that have sprung forth from Alaska's soil in recent years.
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growers must protect their pedigreed vegetables. Robb said that when he started, he would stay up all night to guard his veggies from hungry moose; eventually he put up an electrified fence to keep them out. Brown also says serious growers may construct elaborate watering and fertilization systems for their produce to ensure they get exactly what they need.

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Tue Aug 25, 2020 3:49 pm

Your question reminded me of an article that left me with an impression that the biggest giantess ones are grown where they have extra-extra long days during the summer like Alaska and northern UK or Scandinavia ... I found it — it was from 2014:

Why Vegetables Get Freakish In The Land Of The Midnight Sun : The Salt : NPR

Everything in Alaska is a little bit bigger — even the produce. A 138-pound cabbage, 65-pound cantaloupe and 35-pound broccoli are just a few of the monsters that have sprung forth from Alaska's soil in recent years.
...
growers must protect their pedigreed vegetables. Robb said that when he started, he would stay up all night to guard his veggies from hungry moose; eventually he put up an electrified fence to keep them out. Brown also says serious growers may construct elaborate watering and fertilization systems for their produce to ensure they get exactly what they need.

I want to grow 35 lb broccoli. I wonder if a broccoli that size is good to eat.

Good grief that cabbage is enormous! My friend just grew this miniature cabbage and gave it to me along with some super sweet carrots! I gobbled the carrots down so quickly I didn't get a picture!

I wish, I could even grow the smaller one. Too many things to eat cabbages and it takes up too much space.

My cabbages never grow large tight heads, just a bunch of loose leaves. But still good for slaw and boiling. I picked this one the other day.

Yum! That looks tasty!

Had an old guy in my hometown that grew all kinds of big veggies (about 50 years ago). 40 pound cabbages, 3-4 pound tomatoes, etc. He had lots of pictures in the local paper.

The soil there was a fine sand that didn't look like it would grow much, but he buried straw about a foot deep and added manure to that, so it helped a lot. He never mulched, which I guess kept the bugs away, and watered the ground A LOT...

Others did the same, but couldn't replicate his results and he didn't tell his secret for giant vegetables.

But I found out one thing he did when I was working at the local fertilizer plant... He would come over when we were blending fertilizer for the farmers, and get a five gallon bucket of blended urea, diammonium phospate, and muriate of potash. (usually the same blend used for growing corn)

He would go through a couple of buckets a summer on a patch about 20 X 35 ft in size. He was obviously having a ton of fertilzer leaching into the groundwater, but I guess he didn't know/care anything about that. Probably put enough fertilizer on that ground to grow 500 bushel/acre corn...

Hmm... I guess not helpful unless you live on sand and don't care about your groundwater... LOL