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Cabbage sadness
Tryingtogrowthings
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in Fruit & veg
I grew a beautiful cabbage! and there are more on the way!
The sad part is that there are a few slugs between each layer of leaves. This means it is now only fit for compost?.... Have to say the idea of eating it isn't very appealing.
This is my first ever cabbage so I have no idea whether that's normal...but instinctively it seems not.
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Noooooo!!!!! Cut your cabbage, separate the leaves, cut out any chewed bits and shred the leaves and put in a bowl of cold water with a dessertspoonful of salt in it and leave for half an hour, rinse and cook.
Generatiions of gardeners/cooks have been doing it for years - my grandmother did it, your grandmother did it, and their grandmothers before them.
It'll be fine - be proud of your first cabbage and enjoy it
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thank you!
Here it is
Oh - sideways...
Once beyond the first 2 or 3 layers it was slug free. But I think it was not quite ready?
The leaves were still quite loose inside, not tightly formed.
That is a fabulous cabbage - much better than mine - a veritable cabbage to be proud of!!! It looks perfect to me - summer cabbages tend to be a bit looser than winter ones, I find (that's if they heart up at all
) I'm actually quite envious ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thanks for all the nice compliments. It tasted really nice
it maybe did need another few days, there are 3 more but they're definitely not quite ready...
Picked 5 beans today!
Logan thanks for the cat litter tip, we couldn't eat enough eggs to supply egg shells to go around cabbages and strawberries. Bit worried it might confuse my cat Tho...
Raspberries are another post altogether.
Years ago, some will remember, everything you bought had caterpillars, greenfly and slugs on it. Mum would do as Dove says, cut the chewed bits, wash the slugs down the sink, nowadays everything is pristine, not a blemish.
My OH knew someone who grows lettuce on a commercial scale and they spray around 10 times in the 13 weeks or so it takes to grow.
People wouldnt buy produce now with a slug or a greenfly on it.