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Winter harvesting report: wirosa savoy cabbage

elisa_z5
9 years ago

Spinach and mache, I can get a few salads a month during the winter, but these cabbages are amazing -- survived minus 8 degrees a couple of times under only one layer of AG19 fleece (actually, last year survived minus 31 in the polar vortex -- that was without the wind chill figured in! But I did mulch with hay under the fleece.)

One cabbage provides at least 5 dinners for two. (nice center, plus huge flat outer leaves.) Stir fries, soup, stuffed cabbage, cole slaw, frittata, pasta w/greens, etc.

I plant in cells in summer, in garden in fall, cover with fleece in December, glean a few large tasty leaves in December, and harvest whole heads in winter (need to finish harvesting by end of winter -- left one until early April last year and it rotted.)

If my photo works, it's about 21/2 feet across the large outer leaves (most all of them good to eat.) (I harvested from under cover, then laid it in the snow to snap the photo.)

This post was edited by elisa_Z5 on Fri, Jan 16, 15 at 10:45

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