Today's wake up video is Gerald who will show you his 15 pound cabbage.
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@futurebird I’d go for kale instead. It’ll cope better with root restrictions from growing in a pot and you can harvest many times over the season
You see this is the danger of social media you see some guy with an amazing cabbage and can't get past the idea of cutting it in half. Who wouldn't want to have a cabbage JUST like that one?
(I would be very proud to have one the size of an apple.)
And I recognize your advice is more practical if we expect to get a few meals out of the garden. We grow the most expensive vegetables in the world up here.
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Today's wake up video is Gerald who will show you his 15 pound cabbage.
This is my favorite kind of short "content" just seeing someone proud of their work who wants to share it with the world.
I wonder if I could grow a cabbage in a pot in our roof garden? I've never tried anything with a winter harvest before and it seems like a missed opportunity. Time to learn about cabbage root systems and planting.
@futurebird you probably know the science better than I do, but as I understand brassica is not relying on arbuscular mycorrhizae (~healthy soil) and likes a lot of nitrogen. This makes it easy to grow in containers, and that is also my experience.
Fed them the worm compost pure and they thrived with minimal root system.
Just need to watch the humidity carefully, because they don't like dry (at least the species I had)
Waiting eagerly for the pictures
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@futurebird you probably know the science better than I do, but as I understand brassica is not relying on arbuscular mycorrhizae (~healthy soil) and likes a lot of nitrogen. This makes it easy to grow in containers, and that is also my experience.
Fed them the worm compost pure and they thrived with minimal root system.
Just need to watch the humidity carefully, because they don't like dry (at least the species I had)
Waiting eagerly for the pictures
I have so much worm compost. Really too much, I struggle to find things to mix it with so it's not overwhelming my plants so kale or cabbage maybe a good idea.
(And the inedible leaves will help build the soil I think. I'm like a person on a spaceship up here. leaves and grass for composting are precious to me. I need MORE BIOMASS)
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@futurebird you probably know the science better than I do, but as I understand brassica is not relying on arbuscular mycorrhizae (~healthy soil) and likes a lot of nitrogen. This makes it easy to grow in containers, and that is also my experience.
Fed them the worm compost pure and they thrived with minimal root system.
Just need to watch the humidity carefully, because they don't like dry (at least the species I had)
Waiting eagerly for the pictures
The phrase "dirt cheap" makes me wince. Dirt isn't cheap. It's really hard to get enough dirt around here.
It's not like you can steal it from the park.
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Today's wake up video is Gerald who will show you his 15 pound cabbage.
This is my favorite kind of short "content" just seeing someone proud of their work who wants to share it with the world.
I wonder if I could grow a cabbage in a pot in our roof garden? I've never tried anything with a winter harvest before and it seems like a missed opportunity. Time to learn about cabbage root systems and planting.
@futurebird
Learn also about the Cabbage White Butterfly.
One year one or more got into our cabbage patch.
Later, we heard the seemingly synchronised sound of a myriad caterpillar mouths crunching the diminishing remains of our crop. -
@futurebird
Learn also about the Cabbage White Butterfly.
One year one or more got into our cabbage patch.
Later, we heard the seemingly synchronised sound of a myriad caterpillar mouths crunching the diminishing remains of our crop.We found four of these caterpillars one year and I took them to school to keep as pets so the students could see them build their chrysalis.
This meant that there was a time when I went to Zabar's to buy organic broccoli raab for bugs.
My mother must never know of this.
(They loved that fancy broccoli so much. )
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Today's wake up video is Gerald who will show you his 15 pound cabbage.
This is my favorite kind of short "content" just seeing someone proud of their work who wants to share it with the world.
I wonder if I could grow a cabbage in a pot in our roof garden? I've never tried anything with a winter harvest before and it seems like a missed opportunity. Time to learn about cabbage root systems and planting.
@futurebird Love this guy’s red cabbage-print outfit.
Do y’all have a worm compost box? I’ve been wanting to finally get one, myself.
We live in an old-town where there’s no organic waste pickup (otherwise common here in Germany) — because of rats, I suppose.
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@futurebird Love this guy’s red cabbage-print outfit.
Do y’all have a worm compost box? I’ve been wanting to finally get one, myself.
We live in an old-town where there’s no organic waste pickup (otherwise common here in Germany) — because of rats, I suppose.
Yes we have worm compost, vermicompost and I love it. I especially love how it smells. Which is what worried me most when getting started. "would it smell bad?"
I'm very selective about what I put in the worm bin only vegetables, very little starch and in small consistent quantities. NYC has industrial mass composting that takes everything from bones, to fat, to bad cheese. So, I sort the food waste, keeping the easy to compost raw greens and veg and letting the city do the hard stuff.
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Yes we have worm compost, vermicompost and I love it. I especially love how it smells. Which is what worried me most when getting started. "would it smell bad?"
I'm very selective about what I put in the worm bin only vegetables, very little starch and in small consistent quantities. NYC has industrial mass composting that takes everything from bones, to fat, to bad cheese. So, I sort the food waste, keeping the easy to compost raw greens and veg and letting the city do the hard stuff.
Discovering how worms can make soil has forced me to come to terms with the fact that when you are in a forest and smell the wonderful wet, fresh but earthy smell of good soil it is probably some mix of fungi and worm poop.
But I suppose the human brain is set to process those smells as clean and nice since roots dug from such soil are nutritious and there are few pathogens that can harm us. While other kinds of waste are naturally repugnant.
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Discovering how worms can make soil has forced me to come to terms with the fact that when you are in a forest and smell the wonderful wet, fresh but earthy smell of good soil it is probably some mix of fungi and worm poop.
But I suppose the human brain is set to process those smells as clean and nice since roots dug from such soil are nutritious and there are few pathogens that can harm us. While other kinds of waste are naturally repugnant.
It seems geosmin is the compound the gives soil a smell, though there are many others, like a complex perfume.
Geosmin is produced by bacteria and humans are very sensitive to it. In small amounts it's pleasant, but too much and suddenly it's not. Consider how blue-green algae can smell gross. This seems related to how we decide if water is OK to drink.
The threshold where you can detect this compound is tiny.
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Today's wake up video is Gerald who will show you his 15 pound cabbage.
This is my favorite kind of short "content" just seeing someone proud of their work who wants to share it with the world.
I wonder if I could grow a cabbage in a pot in our roof garden? I've never tried anything with a winter harvest before and it seems like a missed opportunity. Time to learn about cabbage root systems and planting.
@futurebird Never mind the cabbage, it’s the cabbage suit I’m interested in!
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@futurebird Never mind the cabbage, it’s the cabbage suit I’m interested in!
dude has drip.
