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| With Jon Sr.'s giant cabbage. |
My Dad's friend, Tom, grew it in the backyard. Tom
might enter it in the Alaska State Fair competition, though Alaskan cabbages
are usually even much bigger than this one; because of all the summer sunlight,
I guess.
A trick you can all try at home:
If you stick a cabbage plant's roots in a gallon
of milk, it will grow to HUGE proportions (supposedly because of all the growth
hormone in cow's milk). The practice has been outlawed by the Alaskan State
Fair and authorities test for it (like steroids), but you can certainly try it at home with your personal cabbages.
Jon Sr. and Tom are currently debating whether to let the
giant cabbage continue to grow naturally and enter it in the fair (though it
will not come close to the usual contestants' size) or to stick its roots in
milk and see how much bigger it gets.
[Originally posted on Rebel Leady Boy, Sep. 4, 2005]
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