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Sat, Sep 24, 05 at 4:20
| Hi All
Not too sure you might be interested but I thought I might report my winter activities. I have for a year now had a little glass house (3mts x 3mts ) and as an initial experiment planted toms in March, I picked 18 kilo of half green and ripe toms in July. It was perfect really because as the green " turned" ripe slowly we were able to use all the fruit. Interestingly after the plants had finished cropping I cut them off to just the base. Well two have regrown and right now are flowering again but the plants are half size so far and growing slowly.. Not loaded with flower but worth the effort to keep them going. I am growing using hydroponics. I have lots of other veggie in there as well and tonight we are eating a totally home grown meal for dinner.Super fresh no sprays at all. I am needing some help with Chinese cabbage. I planted about 15 plants but oddly they have matured differently..Some have formed a head with others are open leafed. Is it they were presented to me incorrectly or has some thing gone wrong in my growing of them? Thank you too Patrina who gave to me some potato leafed tom seed.They are starting to flower right now and look really healthy. Also growing Bok Chow,traditional cabbage, other vars of toms, and some peppers.. Seonau |
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| It's great to be eating your own produce. Can't help with the Chinese cabbage question, sorry. Perhaps it's just a variable plant. What variety was it? |
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| Hi Raymondo...I have watched this forum from afar. Some top knowledge here being shared and that's why I sit and read, the learning never stops and I got a lot of that to do. I bought two punnets of cabbage, and I am afraid while I remember the Chinese Cabbage bit the rest on the label escapes me. Four plants have heads the others are open, Punnets of 8 plants each. I suspect it not the growing of them but the way there were sold that is the problem. Thanks Raymondo nice to meet you. |
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| Peter, I did a quick Google on Chinese Cabbage. There are different types - some that develop heads, some leaf-oriented. Check out the attached link, particularly the detail under "Harvesting". |
Here is a link that might be useful: Chinese Cabbage
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| Maybe Finbar's hit the nail on the head - a punnet of mixed types. And nice to have you here Peter and hope to see your posts more regularly. By the way, my Chinese cabbage has begun to bolt. We've had 4 warm days and the plants think its summer. Boy, are they in for a surprise! |
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| Yep, you are right Raymondo. I had so many cabbages I was a little lost as to what to do with them all. So today I cooked and cooked and stuffed those beauties good and proper. Most delicious I might say, and enough meals to last for quite some time. Just another ten to use up some how. I noticed some subtle differences in the leaves and you are quite right. Cleverly the punnets were mixed cabbage. I think three different, but very similar open head types plus the more obvious heading type. Now what to do with all the Bok choy? The web site link was good, thank you Finbar for that. seonau |
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