Cabbage Tops - How to get them.

Cabbage Tops are a good way of increasing your yield from a few plants

A second crop from a cabbage stalk. How can you do this?

This is an old gardening trick which works best on spring and early summer cabbages.

When you cut the cabbage head, leave the stalk in the ground, and cut a shallow cross about 6 mm (¼ in) deep on the top of the stalk.

Feed the soil with liquid manure and keep it moist. Several buds - new cabbage tops - will appear below the cross and develop into cabbage heads by late summer. You can get as many as six new cabbage heads - tops - on the old stalk.

They are perfectly edible and taste just the same - if not better - than the original cabbage! 'Two for one' as they say, or in the case of Cabbage tops - 'Six for one!