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Article #99748Re: Care of cabbage plants
From: "Dwayne"
Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 21:08
Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 21:08
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0016_01C57E81.0F8F7CF0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Maybe it was to keep them from crowding each other. I never have and have been happy with my results. Dwayne "Anna" <acarter@cavenet.com> wrote in message news:11c9hdd329rvca3@corp.supernews.com... My 84 year old mother-in-law told my husband to break off the lower leaves on my cabbage plant. What is the purpose of this and is it common practice? I didn't do that last year and they grew just fine. Help appreciated. Thanks Anna ------=_NextPart_000_0016_01C57E81.0F8F7CF0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2668" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Maybe it was to keep them from crowding each other. I never have and have been happy with my results.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dwayne</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV>"Anna" <<A href="mailto:acarter@cavenet.com">acarter@cavenet.com</A>> wrote in message <A href="news:11c9hdd329rvca3@corp.supernews.com">news:11c9hdd329rvca3@corp.supernews.com</A>...</DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>My 84 year old mother-in-law told my husband to break off the lower leaves on my cabbage plant. What is the purpose of this and is it common practice? I didn't do that last year and they grew just fine. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Help appreciated.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Anna</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0016_01C57E81.0F8F7CF0--
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