Cabbage - Attacked, Rehabilitated, now Fruiting.
This one is an update on the ill fated cabbage plant from this post back in October of last year - five months ago. The cover photo is its condition now.
This one lived on my front terrace where there are plenty of ways for critters (creatures) to climb into my secluded terrace. This is also where I enable my greenery addiction. I had tried to fence it in and cap it many times but something would just dig under the fencing and eat all the leaves.
A quick peak under the bottom leaves tells that story. I have been slowly backfilling over the bare, tree trunk like, stalk that is below it. Here is a shot of the whole plant - side view.
Up top, you saw the damaged plant showing the size of the pot - elbow to finger-tips - is its diameter. Here is a picture of the same plant today with the same hand for comparison.
But it also has a new aspect, a new feature! I just stand stand up and look look down on it as I did every week while waiting for this day.
Paydirt! Uh, food dirt? Pay food? I love the freshness of home grown consumables and I have been waiting to see if one of these plants can make a head of cabbage without much help from the sun. This smaller terrace on the other side of the apartment does get some sun in the morning before it goes behind the tall apartment buildings, and that helped get it to where it is today.
The cabbage is about the size of a chicken egg at this point. Time will tell if I get a good size cabbage in a few weeks or months.
While we are on the subject of cabbage, I have a couple other babies that I have started and they're flourishing already. I wanted to see how they do over winter, where our temperatures are usually in the 50 or 60 degree range - days.
This guy is about a month old and there is a baby Kale plant living next to it outside my kitchen window.
The other baby is in the danger zone, on the larger terraced, and I am watching to see if anything gets near it and nibbles.
I have it hanging about chest-high in the same neighborhood where Mary Jane lives.
^^^Oh, I owe you an update as Mary brings her buds to bare. ^^^
I have walked out back to water these plants and check for a cabbage - with no luck - for months and I knew I had to let you all know when one started to form. I will also let you be a part of the repot when the little ones need to upgrade out of their starter pots.
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