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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited March 2022
    @war garden 572  … Winter varieties of cabbage will stand in the field or garden without deteriorating (as long as they’re protected from rabbits and deer etc) for at least a couple of months over winter … they don’t have to be cut and harvested as soon as they’re ready. 

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  • war garden 572war garden 572 Posts: 664

    Dovefromabove  winter cabbage might stay in field all winter.
    but the planting diagram is for spring cabbage. 

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited March 2022
    As before, spring cabbage don’t all have to be picked immediately they’re ready. They’ll stand for a month in most springs. 

    Does it state that all four rows of spring cabbage are to be planted at once?  Could they not be staggered?  That’s what I’ve always done. 😊 

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  • war garden 572war garden 572 Posts: 664
    i read did math and it is 96 cabbages. 
    even if they last month 96 is still a lot cabbage.
    and schedule says plan early march.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    But gardeners swap and barter amongst themselves and with friends and neighbours … and in the village where I lived some of the more successful allotmenteers would keep the village shop supplied with cabbages or lettuces or what have you, in exchange for an amount off their grocery bill … it’s what communities have always done.  
    😊 

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  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    It was war time so there were disruptions to food supplies. I am sure the allotmenteer had worked out he was growing more stuff than he could possibly eat on his own.
    Rutland, England
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited March 2022
    BenCotto said:
    It was war time so there were disruptions to food supplies. I am sure the allotmenteer had worked out he was growing more stuff than he could possibly eat on his own.
    Very true @BenCotto … and if it turned out it was cabbage every day for dinner, at least there was cabbage every day for dinner. 
    When times are tough you learn to look for the silver linings 😉 

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  • war garden 572war garden 572 Posts: 664
    Dovefromabove you ideas are not shown in evidence. 
    the chart and notes were meant for new allotment grower.

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited March 2022
    I’m not talking about  my ideas … I have seen empirical evidence … I was an allotmenteer on this site of over 20 allotments https://www.reportingaccounts.com/uk/IP07986R/allotment-society-of-laxfield-limited/ … although this registration dates back 40 years the allotments in question date back to at least the early 1950s. 

    What’s written in your paperwork only skims the surface of what happened on allotments and in village Horticultural Societies. 

     New allotment growers learn from the established and experienced growers on neighbouring plots … it’s one of the reasons allotments in the UK were set up in the way they were … pre internet, when gardeners learnt from their parents and neighbours. 😊 



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  • war garden 572war garden 572 Posts: 664
    we not talking about 1950 allotments.
    we talking about allotment from ww1. most of experienced
    allotmenteers would have been in military service
    or fighting the war. women and children would
    been many gardeners.
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