How to Grow Napa Cabbage by: Sarah 0 Comments Posted:7/28/2022Updated:7/27/2022 We’re back with the next installment of our How to Grow Chinese Vegetables series.This time, we’re talking about how to grow napa cabbage, a versatile vegetable that’s great for long-term storage, pickling, fermenting, stir-frying, braising, adding to soups, making dumpling or wonton fillings, and even serving raw.  We’ll cover common varieties of napa cabbage, growing and harvesting best practices, and how to do your best to avoid common problems (of which there are many with this crop, as we soon realized!)  Christina Chan of Choy Division, a regenerative Asian vegetable and herb farm in the Hudson Valley, generously contributed her knowledge to this post.We also have a bunch of learnings from our own garden this spring/summer, as well as a video that Kaitlin put together talking about the whole experience!  You can still grow napa cabbage this year, for a fall harvest (it’s actually the best time to grow it!).

Read on to find out how.  Note: If you’re new to this series, check out the introductory post.Also check out our post from last month on growing bok choy.About Napa Cabbage & Why You’d Want to Grow It Napa cabbage, sometimes referred to as simply, Chinese cabbage, is a large, pale green head-forming cabbage that is sweet and mild in flavor.  In Mandarin, it is known as dàbáicài (大白菜), which translates to “big whi

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