Episode 72 – Cabbage – Crunchy, Classic and Surprisingly Complicated

Episode 72 – Cabbage – Crunchy, Classic and Surprisingly ComplicatedCabbage might seem like one of the simpler vegetables in the garden, but there’s a whole lot hiding underneath those tightly packed leaves.This week on The Beanstalk, we’re digging into one of the great cool-season classics and discovering just how strange its family tree really is.We'll talk about growing beautiful heads of cabbage, dealing with the little critters that seem determined to eat them before we do, and some of the quirks that can make this seemingly simple vegetable a little more complicated than expected.And once harvest time arrives, we're putting some of that cabbage to work in the kitchen with a homemade classic that lets some microscopic helpers do part of the cooking for us.So make a little room in the cool-season garden, fellow Beans.We're growing cabbage! 🥬🌱From our patch to yours… keep on climbing. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.