I have been reading from House and garden idea for you on FB and website about planting your own cabbage but the problem with their instruction is to put the stem in water which I did twice and they all wilted away twice and I even change the water regularly. Since we always throw away the hard part of the cabbage stem maybe it's time to plant them and have our very own vegetable garden. What I use are the take out plastic cup for soup which i use a not knife to put 3 holes at the bottom. With some of the old soil I ask my son to buy some compost at Ace Hardware and mix them.
Since I don't use up all the cabbage but tear them whenever I wanted to add in my dish. So when I almost reach half of the stem I cut it off then cut off the dark part of the stem at the bottom so that they will grow easily and put the bottom part of the stem in the soil The picture at the bottom took almost 3 weeks to start growing and it seem that there are almost 4 head of cabbage which are growing upward. My next move is to experiment in dividing them so that a full head of cabbage will appear and not upward reaching for the sun. Have start making some slices which I will post next time.
Below is the top of a cabbage which grow much faster around 1 weeks since we don't usually use the smaller leaves on the top that they got a much taster boost in growing. As you can see on both picture the green are much darker unlike the 1 we buy from the wet market and supermarket which has a light green color. Both container are not even expose to full sunlight yet still waiting to see more roots in order to transplant it to a much bigger pot. Now I just have to tear the leave I needed for my dish and I know there is no chemical added to it.
