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What kind of Cabbage has a nice head but not huge?
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Cabbage?
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At any given time in the fall/winter months I always have small, medium, and large heads of cabbage growing in the garden along with Bok Choy.
When you harvest determines the size and when mature the Jersey Wakefield I grow rounds out at 8-10 pounds with 10+ inch heads. Also, I like the Bonnie Hybrid cabbage and the red cabbage which is generally small
Small cabbage:
Medium cabbage:
Mature cabbage:
Full grown:
Bok Choy (sometimes called Chinese cabbage)
Red Cabbage:
When you harvest determines the size and when mature the Jersey Wakefield I grow rounds out at 8-10 pounds with 10+ inch heads. Also, I like the Bonnie Hybrid cabbage and the red cabbage which is generally small
Small cabbage:
Medium cabbage:
Mature cabbage:
Full grown:
Bok Choy (sometimes called Chinese cabbage)
Red Cabbage:
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I have been growing what they call All Season Cabbage.
I like it but it is a little small. Baker Creek has some get 15 pounds and some that gets 25 pounds. Both way to big.
Im planing on getting some seed so Hybrids are out.
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I like it but it is a little small. Baker Creek has some get 15 pounds and some that gets 25 pounds. Both way to big.
Im planing on getting some seed so Hybrids are out.
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How about defining what's too small or too large?
What do you want to do with it?
We like heads in the 3 to 6 pound range for making stuffed cabbage. Smaller or larger make sourkraut or get chopped for other dishes. 2 pound or smaller are great for a batch of Cole slaw.
What do you want to do with it?
We like heads in the 3 to 6 pound range for making stuffed cabbage. Smaller or larger make sourkraut or get chopped for other dishes. 2 pound or smaller are great for a batch of Cole slaw.
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Well for just me and my wife went like small 6 pounds would be fine.
She likes Fried Cabbage and use one Head for dinner.
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She likes Fried Cabbage and use one Head for dinner.
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Just never had any luck making sauerkraut...can't take the smell while it is fermenting but do like to eat it.
Our favorite way to eat it...and we have it often, is pan fried cabbage.
I can't seem to tell any difference in the taste of cabbage as it grows to maturity...small or large all seem to taste the same to me.
Our favorite way to eat it...and we have it often, is pan fried cabbage.
I can't seem to tell any difference in the taste of cabbage as it grows to maturity...small or large all seem to taste the same to me.
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The smell is one of the best parts.
Pan fried in bacon drippings with a pinch of caraway. Optional splash of kraut brine to cut the sweetness.
Pan fried in bacon drippings with a pinch of caraway. Optional splash of kraut brine to cut the sweetness.
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I actually like the smell of Skunk. Got this from back when I was Trapping and Skunks brought $3 apiece.
Now Fox I have a problem with the smell.
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We've been harvesting about one head a week of 5-6 pound cabbage after cleaning. One of these does us just fine for a week.
I stagger plant them so we should have continuous fresh cabbage all the way through spring. A freeze/frost usually only affects the outer leaves which are removed anyway for eating.
Cabbage...a great winter veggie...
I stagger plant them so we should have continuous fresh cabbage all the way through spring. A freeze/frost usually only affects the outer leaves which are removed anyway for eating.
Cabbage...a great winter veggie...
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Winter here might as well forget it. I have some getting ready to compost because it got just too cold.
I'm liking All Season Cabbage. Nice heads and seems to thrive during our growing season.
Trying the Onion Seed again in the Greenhouse and so far it is doing well.
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I'm liking All Season Cabbage. Nice heads and seems to thrive during our growing season.
Trying the Onion Seed again in the Greenhouse and so far it is doing well.
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I planted 5" Dutch cabbage this year from seeds Sept 4 it is a 65 day crop. I have 25 plants in a 25 ft long row. 13° F first week of Dec. killed several leaves, heads are 5" diameter perfect size for us. Plants are doing much better than plants look. 1 cabbage makes a large bowl of coleslaw it takes us 5 day to eat it all. Fried cabbage is good too. I love cabbage vegetable soup. Our first frost is usually Nov 1st but this year it was Oct 20. Larger head cabbage takes longer to grow 7" and 8" heads are too much cabbage for the 2 of us.
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White color stems are Pak Choi. Green color stems are Bok Choi. I had not noticed there are 2 colors, green and white and I was calling them both Bok Choy, the oriental people corrected me. I learn new things every day. I buy new seeds from USA they often have the wrong name and spelled wrong too. I buy my seeds from China on Ebay 500 seeds $2 free postage. If it says, Pac Choi it really is Pac Choi. Pac and Bok are different, 1 does better in hot summer weather the other does better in winter. Some where in my notes I have that info?????
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Just for fun, I checked my AI and the response was:
"Bok choi" and "pak choi" are simply different names for the same vegetable, Brassica rapa subsp. chinensis. The names vary due to different transliterations from Chinese characters into English."
Same botanical name. Maybe it's like a "dutch" cabbage vs an "early jersey" cabbage? I guess it doesn't make a tinker's dam to me.
It all tastes great! One of the easiest to grow fall vegetables.