Each of the 3rd graders were given a plant in the spring from Bonnie Plants, a national company. They sponsor a cabbage contest. Caitlin was the only one who contacted her teacher about it, so her teacher said she "won." That meant we got to enter. All the Colorado entries will be place in a hat and someone from the Colorado Dept. of Agriculture will choose a winner in December. The prize is a $1000 scholarship.
I know I am partial, but I guarantee no one loved their cabbage plant like Caitlin. She wanted to check on it in the morning both before and after breakfast. She watered it, cried over it (bugs or bunnies eating the leaves), worried about it, planted a pinwheel next to it, and nurtured it. If she had any water left over at mealtime, she would go out and give it to her plant to drink.
In the end it weighed 8 lbs, 14 ozs. If it's based on size, she will probably not win. If they could only measure her heart.
So far we've eaten coleslaw & won ton soup with cabbage from its leaves. We still have half a cabbage left. My favorite is stuffed cabbage rolls, but pretty much only one other person in the fam agrees with me.
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