Cabbages / Sprouts

[Bren]

Help can anyone tell me how to recognize sprouts from cabbages, when I transplanted them I ran out of labels, I labeled one tray of each but with moving them about the rest got mixed up, looking at the leaves they don't look any different from each other.

Bren

[Nature's Babe]

Hi Bren, they do look very similar as seedlings, I don't think I could tell the difference. Maybe their growth might give a clue as sprouts do grow taller.

[PLUMPUDDING]

When they get a couple of true leaves the stems of the sprouts starts extending with more leaves spacing out up the stem, so if you wait a week or so you should be able to tell one from the other.

[Daveswife]

I know exactly what you mean, Bren. We planted a selection of over-wintering cabbage/sprouting broc/spring greens/caulis and they all looked pretty much the same. In fact what I thought was spring greens turns out to be a cauli, one of the best we have ever grown! Planted last October, covered in snow in freezing ground for 3 weeks in December, not watered during the spring dry spell and still we get a lovely cauli. I

To me this cauli flower epitomises the resilience of nature and what a rich reward we all gain from growing our own veg.

Aren't we lucky?!

[Bren]

Thanks Nature's babe, Plumpudding and Daveswife for your help I think that I have sorted them out now but I won't be surprised if a few are not what I thought they should be.

The annoying part is I found a box full of labels later some cleaned used ones and a lot of new ones, as my daughter says I put things in such a safe place I can't find them when I need them .
Bren

[Mike Vogel]

I'm always doing that, Bren. Even when sowing, if I am sowing half the tray with Broccoli and the other half with cabbage, I inadvertantly turn the tray round and then I can't remember which end was which.