Our Fall Harvest

Way, way back in June, upon my older sister's request we bought a pack of little red cabbage plants from the fruit market she worked at. I love having a vegetable garden in the summer, and I had never tried to grow this type of plant before, so I was pretty excited. We planted three of the cabbages and gave one to my neighbor. They grew very slowly but surely. It was cool to watch layer after layer of leaves form before they finally peeled back to uncover a tiny round cabbage.
     Today, on the first day of November, we cut our last cabbage head. Many people have problems with moths and bugs laying eggs and chewing holes in the leaves, but, as you can see from the picture we had no trouble at all.  I had no idea way, way back in June that the cabbages would turn out so great.
     We used one to make a red cabbage slaw with carrots, cilantro and basil. The second head we gave to our neighbor. And what we will do with this, the last of the cabbages, I'm not sure.
     I don't know if  your luck will be as good as ours was, but if you are interested in gardening, I suggest next summer you try the red cabbage.