yes All leafy vegetables such as kale, lettuce, collard greens, turnip greens and cabbage all should have the larger outside leaves removed as the plant gets bigger. This promotes the inner leaves to grow. You see the whole plant cut off at the base in commercial farms. This yields less food, but its packages nicely. Keep cutting the plants till frost kills it or it goes to seed (blooms at the end of its life cycle). You can even save the seeds for next years crop.
The part of the cabbage plant that we eat is a dense head of leaves borne on a relatively short stem; the loose leaves that grow below the head are also edible. In the case of other cabbage-family plants such as broccoli and cauliflower (and the more recently developed hybrid, broccoflower), we usually eat the clusters of undeveloped flower blossoms, but the leaves of these plants are also edible.
No. Cabbage is negatively geotropic . The only part of the plant that is normally eaten is the leafy head; more precisely, the spherical cluster of immature leaves, excluding the partially unfolded outer leaves.
None, sort of.No part that you'll see in the supermarket. The cabbage plant flowers after the second year, and the grower (75% of the U.S. seeds come from the state of Washington) harvests the seeds from the flowers. They are pollinated by bees, like many flowers and plants.
You are eating the head of the cabbage plant.
from dictionary.com cabbage -noun 1. any of several cultivated varieties of a plant, Brassica oleracea capitata, of the mustard family, having a short stem and leaves formed into a compact, edible head.
The leaves
The leaves of cabbages are important because the heads form from the leaves. Cabbage leaves can be any color and shape.
Cabbage
The part of the cabbage plant that we eat is a dense head of leaves borne on a relatively short stem; the loose leaves that grow below the head are also edible. In the case of other cabbage-family plants such as broccoli and cauliflower (and the more recently developed hybrid, broccoflower), we usually eat the clusters of undeveloped flower blossoms, but the leaves of these plants are also edible.
because they produce new material for growth
No. Cabbage is negatively geotropic . The only part of the plant that is normally eaten is the leafy head; more precisely, the spherical cluster of immature leaves, excluding the partially unfolded outer leaves.
All parts of the cabbage plant are edible. Generally only the leaves are eaten and the buds of broccoli. Collard is in the same plant family and the flowers of collards are put in salads.
Not if it's fed in low quantities. Cabbage leaves contain oxalates that, though lower than that in rhubarb leaves, may still cause poisoning problems in cattle if fed too much.
None, sort of.No part that you'll see in the supermarket. The cabbage plant flowers after the second year, and the grower (75% of the U.S. seeds come from the state of Washington) harvests the seeds from the flowers. They are pollinated by bees, like many flowers and plants.
You are eating the head of the cabbage plant.
cabbage seeds
The cabbage is a very ancient plant, and the food plants that have de scended from it include many that you would never imagine have any thing to do with the cabbage! Thousands of years ago, the cabbage was a useless plant which grew along the sea coast in different parts of Europe. It had showy yellow flowers and filled leaves. From this wild parent plant, more than 150 varieties of cultivated plants have been developed. The best known kinds are the common cabbage, kale, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, broccoli, and kohlrabi. In the common cabbage there is one central bud and the leaves grow close together about it, fold over it, and form a large, solid head. Red and white cabbages have smooth leaves. i would say it could grow where you want it to