Cabbage, was: I'm baaaack ...

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At 09:26 PM 7/24/2004, you wrote:

>Curious, what makes cabbage split? Is it heat or moisture that

>causes this? What do you do with your split cabbage?

>

>For the first time ever I am successfully growing cabbage. We have

>them placed so they have 3 hours of shade in the early morning, get

>a little direct light mid-day, and then they are mostly shaded by

>corn the rest of the afternoon.

>

>Thanks, Leann

I don't know what causes it ... I suspect it was the abrupt temp change. It went

from 70 degrees average to 90 and sunny, suddenly. And they were in direct sun

most of the time, which might not be good for them. I know lettuce really

likes cool weather better, so maybe I'll put them on the north side of the

house!

The other problem is that I didn't put them on good enough mulch ... next time

if I do cabbage I'm using landscape cloth so the set on something dry.

I cut out the bad parts and chopped them up, made them into kraut. Also

cole slaw ... they were REALLY tender and crispy, quite nice! The heads were not

as compact as the commercial ones, I'm sure there is some trick to that

as well ..

-- Heidi