The Secrets to Growing Perfect Brussels Sprouts!

Get ready to learn the secrets to growing the most perfect and delicious Brussels sprouts ever! In this video, we'll show you the best techniques for harvesting your sprouts at the perfect size, ensuring even cooking and amazing flavor. Say goodbye to scraggly stalks and hello to a bountiful harvest. Don't forget to subscribe for more gardening tips and tricks!

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0:42 Cutting and Weighing a Huge Cabbage!
4:14 An Epic Brussels Sprouts Harvest!
8:16 Secret #1: Fertilization
9:33 Secret #2: Hybrids vs. Heirlooms

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[nathanbannister]

Another fantastic video! I feel like i got 10 years worth of trial and error experience and info from todays video! Thanks for sharing! Cant wait to put it to use. I was about ready to give up on sprouts.

[Detourit]

Wish I had pics to send of my Brussel sprout plants. I've always picked from the bottom (as needed), and by end of spring I'd have plants 4ft tall long twisted and still producing.

[pamelaroden]

I like slicing them thin and making a salad out of them with some thinly sliced carrots, red onions, and broccoli sliced, with some bacon bits and a sweet dressing.

[cliftonmcandrew]

Hey Travis, I’ve never grown brussels sprouts. I have six plants growing right now so I don’t know how well they do with heat but here where I live in California by March it’s gonna be warm I planted those that I have probably November so I’m hoping they will sprout we’ll see, if not, I will plant them earlier next year

[WhatWeDoChannel]

You are growing some beautiful Cole crops! Because my garden is so small, I can’t afford to mess around with open pollinated plants, I need production man! I watch a lot of homesteader, prepper type channels and I know they worry about calamity and not being able to get seeds. I watched a video by Aldo Pepper where he grew out tomato seeds collected from hybrid plants and he ended up with usable tomatoes, just different from the parent plants, so in a pinch you could collect seeds from hybrids. It would be interesting to see what you would get from growing out the seeds from other hybrid vegetables! I think a big problem with open pollinated seeds is really poor seed selection, you really have to collect from the best plants with desirable characteristics, not just gather everything up! I watched a video from Johnny’s seeds where they took a poor quality open pollinated pepper variety and did careful seed selection over four years and brought back all the good qualities the variety had been famous for in the past.

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[bernkondret]

Cabbage weighing, ha! Should only weight what you plan to eat. Gardening in south east Texas. Most heirloom varieties don't do well. Good advice on the difference. All the brassica's require more feeding. I like your content, always good. Watched many, many of your videos while at Hoss.

[shirleyk]

Very envious of your brussel sprouts. I had too much problems with them. Your's look delicious.

[karencovington]

Great information. I have never grown Brussel Sprouts…..but you have made me want to try next fall. Thanks so much.

[dnawormcastings]

I loved the cabbages so large great video 🇳🇿

[kevindavis]

I appreciate your sharing your experiences with me brother. I think possibly some folks just want to be seed independent. In case they can’t buy seeds someday. But I agree with getting the best I can get every time. 🙏🏻

[marilynclayton]

I would love to find out how big that variety will get where I’m at in Alaska. I haven’t tried growing big varieties for the reason of taste. Thanks for sharing 💚

[mattshepherd]

I got my first 10lb cabbage this year it was a bonnie hybrid from lowes because i fell behind on my seed starting this fall

[mysparky]

Thanks very informative
I thought I would give sprouts a try again. It's been years. Never worked out. I was about to order Catskill which is the only one offered in my seed catalogue. Yikes. I didn't even know about hybrid. I'll look around now

[vickisavage]

I have heard that, in Alaska, there have been cabbages that grew to 50-100 lbs, but they have LOTS more sun during the growing season.

[PoisonBreaker]

I seen some purple brussels sprouts when looking at seeds this year . I like getting different colors in the garden

[murdok]

i think the brussle sprouts would be a good crop top put in a raised bed. what would be the best month to plant. i got a pretty bad back and a bum knee. it would be hard on me harvesting those.

[beckym]

Cook them in smoker like cabbage and than make a beef stew soup with them, or smoke cream of mushroom with them yummy, replace broccoli with them make smoke casserole with rice sausage

[barbararyan]

That one cabbage, I would guess, could have had some frost damage to it. Kinda looks like some of the vegs you see in the stores that have been kept in slightly too cold temps.

[IAMGiftbearer]

I can see how much better these look compared to the ones in your earlier videos! I don't see Dagan in your store though. It looks like you only carry a variety called Gustus. Are those as good as Dagan?
Also, is Coop grow high enough in Nitrogen to use every 4 weeks or should that only be used in the beginning and a different fertilizer used for repeat feeding?

[RangerTom]

I planted 36 Brussel sprouts in open soil and 36 in soil covered with that black woven landscape fabric. Both were planted the same day back in early October. The plants in the bare soil are three times bigger than the ones planted with the fabric. Today I cut the fabric away from the plants. It was an experiment and I won’t use the fabric again. I did the same thing with broccoli, cabbage and cauliflower. Same result