Big excitement last night when we opened the seeds from The Daily Mail. A very unusual selection of 12 varieties including The Walking Stick Cabbage.
This is the picture from the packet and the description that Thomson & Morgan give is:
Height: 15 feet Description: A peculiar vegetable for the garden, the stout stems which carry a crown of ‘greens’ can be used to make walking sticks. Plants reach up to 2.1m (7ft) from an early spring sowing, and up to 3m (10ft) in the second year! A real talking point.
If we do manage to grow them to 15 feet we really will be the talking point of the allotment, but I really can't work out how you harvest the cabbage (unless you are 15 feet tall, which this small boy obviously isn't). and also why would you want a 15 foot long walking stick!
p.s. If you can't resist trying yourself you can buy from Thomson & Morgan, currently on special offer at only 99p per packet (bargain if you ask me).
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