Cabbage & Broc thread 2 for Sewer Rat

[Dotski McWellie]

Dear brothers and sisters of toil,

I studied the current advice about uploading pix - and found it easy to use Googles Picassa - but even though I had got the pic of my cabbage and broccoli down to 500 x 375 pixels and 51 MB the attachment tool associated with the current thread wasn't having it - but it accepted it on this new thread.

As requested by Mr Rat - I have pleasure in introducing 2 fine specimens of summer cabbage, flanked by 2 broccoli. If you find your diagnostic genius is hampered by the close-up style I plumped for - you only have to say and I will set up a longer shot.

Dotski

[fiveravens]

They won't be giving you any indigestion for a while Dotski .
Seriously though, I think they're a bit too young yet to say which is which.

[Snadger]

I think SW thought he may be able to distinguish the leaves of each , but not the seed leaves which are much of a muchness!

[Dotski McWellie]

snadger and fiveravens I think you so don't respect Sewer here. Sewer is from Scotland so he knows a thing or two. Can't you see from his photo that he has issues with his legs. The thing SW doesn't know yet is I am actually from Northumberland. Sewer ...sorry it is Picts and Scots. Behind closed doors I am from Heddon-on-the-wall in Northumberland. Are you pale now in fear???? :-)

[zazen999]

I think the cabbage is the lighter of the 2. or 4. But you know what I mean.

But then again, this is from the person who sows stuff such as broccolli, romanesco, swede, cabbage all in the same try and leaves it to chance what goes where. I like to take a punt. Pure guesswork

[mandyballantyne]

OK.so i am not SR but I am scottish!

My cabbage seedlings are about the same size and look like the ones on the left. My caulis have taken longer to appear but look more like the ones on the right??

I am sure rat will be along soon to say I am bonkers

But that is fine by me, Mandy :

ok, just re read and seen it is broc, not cauli.......off to bed now bed before the men in white coats arrive!!

[Dotski McWellie]

Dear Rat - don't you feel Mandy is so nice we can decide it doesn't matter about the broccoli / cabbage issue?? I can't stop wondering if this is what it was like in the Iraq war thing? we have to make a decision and stick to it. Mandy thinks cabbages are to the right....do we have a clause which gives her immunity if indeed they turn out to be on the left and the things on the right are broccoli??? Just imagine the repercussions - imagine the leader pages on The Times. ....?? Is it like the WMD issue...? embedded in my seed tray are two quite volatile vegetables. Hanz Blix I invite you - Sewer Rat too ....but citizens of UK weed out my summer cabbages - as the worry it they will take over the UK. Imagine summer cabbages being so powerful we all stop and ingest cabbage intensive coleslaw.......the whole UK economy might grind to a halt.....

[zazen999]

Dotski

Whatever you are on; please can you send a pint in my general direction.

Cheers

[fiveravens]

Dotski

Whatever you are on; please can you send a pint in my general direction.

Cheers

I don't think I could manage a pint of whatever it is...

[Dotski McWellie]

oh dear. What am I on?? I think the reason I have come over manic is I can't believe I am posting conversations on the internet about cabbages. Is there no other person out there who holds down a socially important job and has to attend silly meetings and be all professional - then in another life can ask strangers about cabbages? I absolutely love this forum - as there are clearly loads of lovely normal people talking about .......things like cabbages..I needed 24 hours to come to terms with the fact it is ok to ask nice people about my seeds when the political situation in the world is pressing.

I am going to pot up the un-diagnosed plants tomorrow.

[mandyballantyne]

Hi Dotski,

I know the feeling, it took me a while (well a day!) to realise you could be in VIP meeting one minuite then talking about weeing in compost the next

Welcome to the vine, Mandy

[fiveravens]

Don't worry about it Dotski - we all go off the rails a bit now and then Good luck with your potting!

[zazen999]

I usually bring gardening metaphors into really important meetings; the thing I realised a while ago is that if they don't understand it; they don't minute it.

Anyhow - I gave up being worried about which seedlings was which a long time ago; as long as my brassicas are kept together and grown together; nothing else really matters. So, I often mix and match and sow a bunch of stuff and see what comes up.

[Dotski McWellie]

Today it was piffling it down rain wise and I was so worried about all the things I planted out yesterday. I have really taken the slug pellets are a no no thing to heart without having fully absorbed the non toxic mode...so...I decided to go down to my allotment and survey the vista. I have planted up my carrots and beetroot and the peas and spuds are emerging. Obviously I put on my wellies - and I was the only person in the site of 80 allotments except a really nice nice man who had rushed in and out of his shed for some onions. We have this lock and chain thing which I am sure others recognise on an allotment. Except nobody on this planet can be gardening on a more wonderful allotment conglomeration than me. Obviously the most pressing bit of information to convey is that no slugs have feasted on my plants. But the worst thing was that because I have a plot right by a fence some irk took two bites out of a huge cheeseburger and chucked the lot onto the lovely raked soil I had achieved yesterday. I decided it is better to just take an old carrier bag down to the plot and always expect the worst rather than get really angry.

Dotski

[sewer rat]

Dear Dotski
Even though you are not Scottish, you're pretty damn close, so for what it's worth, I will say that your cabbages are on the left of your photo and your broccolli are those seedlings on the right of the photo.
Now please don't ask me to explain how I arrive at this deduction - but possibly because I have been sowing and transplanting hundreds of each just recently