Why Not Grow Some Chinese Cabbage?
© Article and Painting by Arlene Wright Correll For years I really hated cabbage. I did not like the smell or taste of it until I discovered that my family had been cooking the heck out of it. Once I realized what could really be done with cabbage I had no problem with adding it to my cooking arsenal. Along the way I discovered Chinese cabbage which, though a member of the cabbage family, doesnít taste too much like cabbage. Often called Celery cabbage, this lettuce like vegetable has a wonderful sweet taste and it can be used in salads or boiled as greens. This vegetable is not a hot weather vegetable and it should be grown in the early spring or late summer or early fall depending on your zone. It likes to be planted in soil that has been composted well or has had a generous amount of manure dug into it prior to planting. I have found that this plant does not transplant well so I direct sow it into the ground about Ω inch deep and I keep the rows about 16 to 18 inches apart. Once the
