Walking with Cabbages.... Challenge..!!

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  1. Phil A

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    Sister in law cooked mine as spring greens.
     
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    :heehee:

    Oh oh Ziggy, theres still time to get another batch going - my second batch have germinated in three days, I reckon they will catch up and overtake my first batch at that rate (they will need to to keep up with pete's)
     
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    John, that's my theory! It's all about temperatures with cabbage isn't it? Later sowings often catch up with early ones IF sown in unheated houses like ours!

    My little 'minicabs' go outside during the day and back on the kitchen windowsill for the night. Forgot them a few nights ago....was a pretty tense few minutes before finding them safe and sound, unfrosted or eaten by slugs!
     
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    :loll: This has got to be the worst "the dog ate my homework" story ever!
     
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    :loll:Just potted up your Spanish Tree Cabbage Atticus, good germination rate, got about 15 of them. I wonder if the Spanish use walking sticks.:what:
     
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    Nice one Atticus :dbgrtmb:

    That reminds that when I was running my business I found, at the end of the day, half a ten pound note in the till :scratch:. I took it to the bank and they said that I would have to fill in a Bank of England form about it.

    The form asked loads of questions about what happened to it so I said it fell on the floor and a customer's dog ate half of it before I could grab it. With the question 'will you be able to retrieve the missing part' I said that I would ask the customer to fix a nappy to the dog and shall send the nappy to them when it arrived.

    They told my bank to pay me the £10 and that I didn't need to send it to them :heehee: :loll:
     
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      :heehee:

      Reminds me of a Frank Skinner joke: "Last Christmas I bought my girlfriend an engagement ring and the dog ate it - ever since then we've just been going through the motions."
       
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      Nice one :dbgrtmb: :heehee:
       
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      :dbgrtmb: Should be interesting to see if there's much difference between those and the Jersey ones.
       
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      Apparently you can eat the leaves of the Spanish one, but you have to be a sheep to eat the Jersey one. Makes your wool very silky though.

      Haven't forgotten your gooseberry bush Atticus, just lost it for a week:DOH:
       
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      Disaster strikes

      In the form of pheasants.

      They are normally very good in the garden and leave our plants alone but this time they have eaten all but one of the walking stick cabbages :cry3:

      I think we may have some more coming along but shall have to ask Mrs shiney - she's in charge of propagation.
       
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      Oh No Shiney :cry3:
       
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      Excuses coming thick and fast now.:loll:

      John, I'm sure you sent me cauliflower seed.
       
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      Hmm sorry pete, meant to send you radish seed :)
       
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      Mine is just setting a lovely crop of Loofahs:thumbsup:

      Been protecting against stupid pidgeons, wasn't expecting pheasants, that has to warrant some sort of handicap (if thats the right term, not that familiar with sporting things:DOH:)

      what I meant was, we should take into account unexpected things like that when Marley & Alice come to judge the thing:love30:
       
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