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Bird · May 31, 2006

I guess buying cabbage in the grocery store, I never thought about there being different "brands" of cabbage until I started my garden in the country and I saw those Flat Dutch plants at the nursery and wondered what the shape of the cabbage would be, so I tried them, they did fine, and that was the only kind I ever planted. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

Bird · May 31, 2006

I guess buying cabbage in the grocery store, I never thought about there being different "brands" of cabbage until I started my garden in the country and I saw those Flat Dutch plants at the nursery and wondered what the shape of the cabbage would be, so I tried them, they did fine, and that was the only kind I ever planted. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

Farmwithjunk · May 31, 2006

My wife has a lot of input on what sort of cabbage varieties I grow. She cans about everything we grow in some shape or form. A lot of the cabbage ends up Sour Kraut.

A perfect marriage. She loves to can and cook, I love to garden and eat.

Farmwithjunk · May 31, 2006

My wife has a lot of input on what sort of cabbage varieties I grow. She cans about everything we grow in some shape or form. A lot of the cabbage ends up Sour Kraut.

A perfect marriage. She loves to can and cook, I love to garden and eat.

Bird · May 31, 2006

( A perfect marriage. She loves to can and cook, I love to garden and eat. )

We have a lot in common. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif My wife has certainly done a lot of canning, and she likes cabbage; cole slaw, steamed, fried, etc. but she won't touch sauerkraut and has never made any, so we buy it for me in the grocery store.

Bird · May 31, 2006

( A perfect marriage. She loves to can and cook, I love to garden and eat. )

We have a lot in common. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif My wife has certainly done a lot of canning, and she likes cabbage; cole slaw, steamed, fried, etc. but she won't touch sauerkraut and has never made any, so we buy it for me in the grocery store.

PineRidge · May 31, 2006

Farmwithjunk I gotta ask how you like using the tomato cages. We have in the past always tied the plants up but sooner or later they seem to get away from us regardless and every time I see one of those cages I wonder if it might be easier.

It also appears after a second look that instead of pushing them in the ground you might be anchoring them vie re-bar and ties?

PineRidge · May 31, 2006

Farmwithjunk I gotta ask how you like using the tomato cages. We have in the past always tied the plants up but sooner or later they seem to get away from us regardless and every time I see one of those cages I wonder if it might be easier.

It also appears after a second look that instead of pushing them in the ground you might be anchoring them vie re-bar and ties?

Farmwithjunk · May 31, 2006

Very observant. I've tried everything from soup to nuts for tying up tomatos. The cages work better for me than anything else. You do have to walk the rows every day or two so as to get every vine you can up through the middle 'till they hit open sky. Then they'll hang over the sides. Sometimes they get kinda heavy. Just the cage alone will fall over, sometime taking the next one in line. I use tee-post's, 1/2" rebar, 1" conduit, then tie it all together with cable ties. Last year, I had vines that were taller than me before they started trailing over the sides of the cages. We had a quite a crop of tomatoes too!

Farmwithjunk · May 31, 2006

Very observant. I've tried everything from soup to nuts for tying up tomatos. The cages work better for me than anything else. You do have to walk the rows every day or two so as to get every vine you can up through the middle 'till they hit open sky. Then they'll hang over the sides. Sometimes they get kinda heavy. Just the cage alone will fall over, sometime taking the next one in line. I use tee-post's, 1/2" rebar, 1" conduit, then tie it all together with cable ties. Last year, I had vines that were taller than me before they started trailing over the sides of the cages. We had a quite a crop of tomatoes too!