Middle son came home a couple of months ago with a cabbage plant. Bonnie Plants donated them to second and third grade students all over the country. The object was to grow it as large as he could, get his picture taken with it, and submit it to Bonnie with the hopes of winning a scholarship. The Padawan is more interested in growing sea monkeys than plants, but the money caught his attention.
We opted to grow our cabbage organically. More because I can’t justify the cost of a bottle of Sevin dust for a single cabbage than because I’m worried about the kids growing a third arm from pesticides. Because it’s not like they’d eat it anyway. Maybe I should have sprung for the Sevin.
Here’s what our organic cabbage farm now looks like:
If Tim Burton had an organic cabbage farm, it would probably look like this.
And what’s this? Ah, yes. Destroying the entire plant was not quite enough. Whatever devoured the cabbage left their turds on the one leaf they didn’t actually eat.
That was thoughtful.
Becoming Cliche 
Poor little cabbage!
I know. And poor little wanna-be farmer. His sea monkeys just hatched, and only one seems to have survived.
My neighbor is always taking about seven dust! I won’t use it because I would rather garden organically, and also avoid third arms, but I have yet to have a successful vegetable garden. Many of my plants last garden season looked like yours!
Apparently we can grow tomato plants like nobody’s business, but cabbage is apparently really tasty.
Hate to say it at this late stage but you could have done it organically if you don’t mind ‘squishing’ caterpillars… now there’s an idea for someone…
We never SAW them! Is that what did it? The Padawan would have loved to adopt the caterpillars.
By the looks of it it was. Those lovely white cabbage butterflies lay their eggs and out pop these horrid things that can much through a cabbage patch in not time at all and leave those lovely poops behind. They’re really vom worthy to squish though.
Wow, did that happen in a day? Awesome
It was a slow process at first. The last 50% happened overnight, though.
My middle son came home with the same plant. It’s now happily planted in our garden and doing well. He was obsessed with that cabbage plant until it got planted and now he expects me to take care of it.
Tell him it’s his cabbage plant, so he can walk it. Or does that just work for puppies?
lol
It’s twice as hard to get him to walk the puppy so that won’t work. I took him to the garden the other day and he was happy to see his cabbage plant. It was like reuniting him with a long lost friend. If I tell him that the weeds are going to kill his cabbage friend maybe he’ll pull them for me! Then again, 5 cents per weed would probably be a better motivator.
Meh. Nature is over rated.
I’d reather enjoy some delicious crispy cabbage bars.
I can get them fortified with all the nutrients that were leeched out during hte preparation process!
I was so looking forward to sauteing that plant.
That is a creepy looking plant. I think you should be careful about shedding any blood around it.
I know! I think it just winked at me!
Hahaha! I almost weed (!) myself laughing. But I’m allowed to. I usually have all kinds of herbs in my garden and because I use them frequently for cooking they grow like nobody’s business too. Except last year, some really hungry (and apparently highly specialised) creature devoured all of my parsley. No matter how often I replaced the plant it was eradicated the next day while the chives right next to it stood unharmed. Nature can be so weird sometimes.
All my other plants are doing really well. It must have been a cabbage specialist, whatever it was. I’m tempted to get another plant to watch what happens!
Unless you need more fodder (!) for your blog I recommend you spare yourself the frustration. I stopped at replacement number three.
oops.. are you sure it was not a turtle? c
The tortoises are contacting their attorney and do not wish to discuss the matter.
Lol – The Tim Burton comment was a comic bulls eye! 😀
And sadly true.
that is one decimated cabbage!
Whatever destroyed it has since abandoned it, even the last leaf.
Difficult to tell that was a cabbage. So, you still gonna take the picture? 🙂