Hi, I was doing a websearch for walking stick cabbages & I came up with a link on a discussion you guys had this time last year (http://www.allotments4all.co.uk/joomla/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,57/topic,18472.0 (http://www.allotments4all.co.uk/joomla/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,57/topic,18472.0))
It sounded like a few of you were giving these cabbages/kale a go and I wondered what your results were in growing them? Do you have any pictures?! :)
I'm a complete amature, I'm just starting to share a friends spot on his allotement, and I'm after something different to grow as a bit of fun!
REALLY interested in your results ;D
Looks like a very interesting veg! I've seen it in Kings Seed catalogue I think...depending on what the results are, I might think about growing some myself!
More up Ken Kew's street I would have thought?
I have got some seed but haven't done anything with them yet ....
I want to put some in my front garden and some on the lotty - mainly as a conversation piece!
Helen
I tried them ,sowing them last Autumn. I too, grew them as a bit of a talking point , ....the truth is ...nobodys intrested ! They were blooming expensive too ! ::) Maybe they,ll get even taller and flower this summer.....maybe someone will need a walking stick and see them and shout "Hey!.....I could really do with one of these walking sticks from an environmentaly sustainable source in Cornwall !" :D My question is ...has anyone actualy USED one as a walking stick ? Perhaps the local nursing home would be interested in them , some folk use two !! Yes ..a bit of a talking point.....anyone else got anything to say about them ? ;D Rohaise ;D
Quote from: Rohaise on April 06, 2007, 19:31:25
I tried them ,sowing them last Autumn. I too, grew them as a bit of a talking point , ....the truth is ...nobodys intrested ! They were blooming expensive too ! ::) Maybe they,ll get even taller and flower this summer.....maybe someone will need a walking stick and see them and shout "Hey!.....I could really do with one of these walking sticks from an environmentaly sustainable source in Cornwall !" :D My question is ...has anyone actualy USED one as a walking stick ? Perhaps the local nursing home would be interested in them , some folk use two !! Yes ..a bit of a talking point.....anyone else got anything to say about them ? ;D Rohaise ;D
I've just sowed some seeds for the first time. But wonder do you eat the cabbage at all ???
Or shall left it to grow taller
There are 4 on a lottie neighbours plot, huge things with up in the sky greenery, I wonder if I could bum one,I will try and see about the stick thing XX Jeannine
I have grown them for a couple of years. I have never made the bottom part make the crook handle shape but that was me being lazy. I did post one of to be made into a walking stick but I don`t think they were suitable.
The second year they look great when they flower.
This years were self seeded from the previous.
I will see if I have a photot that I think I took a few days ago.
(http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c180/beckyandy/P1020584.jpg)
(http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c180/beckyandy/P1020583.jpg)
Just took these not very good photos as it was dark!
Hi there Yuet-Lee , Yes I pick leaves as I go around the veg garden and Kale is very tasty and very GOOD for you .......and me ! :)
I like the pictures Andy , and mine is also about to flower ,which will brighten up the garden ...I suppose . ::)
I tried eating many of my vegetables raw last summerand into Autumn and was pleasantly surprised at how nice they are ...everybody should try mixing SPINACH (the real spinach that is ) with their lettuce leaves for salad for a good example . It tastes so very completly different to that strong dark green withered to thin mush stuff you usualy get after boiling it ! It tastes sweet ! AND has many health and curative properties too ! I know I,m rambling !...bye! Rohaise x
Following on from my earlier posting, the man on our lottie is not sure if his son is going to use his plants, if he is not I can have them, but he has given me seeds. XX Jeannine
got give some last year they got about 4' :) high sky rats had a good feed through
the netting draped over them :'( than last week i saw they had all gone to seed so i pulled them up ::)shame i could do with a walking stick at the moment ;D
marg 2 weeks and 3 days to go