This is Kalibos cabbage, a very upright cone shaped cabbage with beautiful color. It's a new one for me; one of those where you see the catalog pic and just have to try it. Baker Creek's eye candy, of course.


It's fun to watch something new go through growth stages and changes. Kalibos was a lot more purple when it was younger and more like the photo, kind of like that large burgandy leaf laying flat on the ground. Now they're taking on more of a blue green hue with reddish stems almost like the color of the Blauerspeck kohlrabi I grow.

Another characteristic that was touted in the catalog that drew me is that because they are upright they can be planted closer together. I like saving space but it looks like the older they get the more spread out they get. We'll see. Those small cabbages on the other side of the bed are Stonehead. Those are definitely space savers and make nice rock hard heads. I plant them both spring and fall.

Ah, the seed catalogs! I suspect the marketing department has one tool we don’t use in the garden: photoshop! I’m sure that’s at least part of why stuff looks different in the ground than it does on the page. Yummy looking stuff though! That’s all that matters,

We're supposed to get 3-5" of rain starting later today. It's coming up from the Gulf, generated by that new hurricane that's trying to form down there. The rain will be useful!

Yesterday afternoon I cut that first head of Packman broccoli before it got all loosey goosey. Seven inches across.We'll have it with lunch today.


After being up until 2:15 this morning, I think this afternoon's main activity will be a nice nap.