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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Oct 11, 2016 14:36:38 GMT -5
In the case of my turnips, the crop didn't deteriorate. I think that part of the reason why it didn't is that most springs, I would go through the garden, and collect the largest roots, and plant them into a seed row: Intending to collect seeds in the fall, but failing to do it, so they ended up volunteering for another year. This year, I successfully collected the seeds, and grew out of crop of fall turnips, and stuck a really nice batch of them into a root pit about a week ago.
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Post by shoshannah on Oct 14, 2016 22:18:37 GMT -5
far@joseph I've never eaten cabbage stems, just the core part that isn't too tough. On normal cabbage the internodes are close together and there would not be a lot of stem.
My question is, what I am calling the core is what you call the stem? I'm also interested to know the minimum amount of direct sun for normal head development
of cabbage, cauliflower and broccoli. My brassicas look healthy and sturdy but they are tall like brussels sprouts.
I eat pretty far down on a romaine leaf too. Their stems are juicy.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Oct 14, 2016 23:11:25 GMT -5
shoshannah: The way I harvest cabbage, it's hard to tell where the core ends and the stem begins. If the outer rind is woody already, I peel it off, and eat the insides of the stem.
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Post by steev on Oct 15, 2016 0:39:40 GMT -5
The part that remains after peeling/ripping off the outer, often woody, layers, is what I call the stem-core (as differentiated from the in-head core, the un-woody part of which is also palatable), as opposed to the worthless, woody stem.
I think the deal is that what you can chew and enjoy is the good part; what you can't, isn't.
That may be the general rule for plants.
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Post by shoshannah on Oct 15, 2016 1:33:27 GMT -5
Broccoli trees, I have the same problems with my cabbage, broccoli and cauliflower. My miss-grown trees didn't head last year. Any ideas why your broccoli didn't head?
Too hot? That's why I'm trying summer planting, later maturing varieties. Do yours get a lot of direct sunlight? Did you sow from saved seed or commercial seed?
Mine aren't spindly. They seem healthy and strong. They still have lower leaves but would look like a tree if I pulled them off. I am confused, if I saved seed from them am
I selecting for tree crops?
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Post by shoshannah on Oct 15, 2016 1:43:16 GMT -5
On the stems sounds like the same way I deal with broccoli and lower part of asparagus stems. I just hadn't thought of cabbage stems, definitely will try.
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Post by reed on Oct 15, 2016 7:06:55 GMT -5
The broccoli trees were in full sun and grew through the winter, don't know why they never did anything. I forget the name but they were an old variety I picked cause of a description of being cold hardy. I ended up pitching those plants, they didn't even bloom to mix in with the other stuff that did. It reminds me though I still have some seed for them and I forgot to include it in my mix that's growing now. Kinda late maybe but I think I'll search them out and plant some.
My patch now has a couple of the same cabbage plants that lived last year, some volunteers from it's seed, crossed I hope, with the brussels sprouts and kale. Also some more recently planted of those same seeds and everything else I have. Except of course for the ones I forgot about. There is another mixed patch of larger plants started several weeks ago.
The old plants are growing little miniature cabbages. They are mostly pretty loosely formed but quite tasty.
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