CABBAGE 
CAULIFLOWER 
BRUSSELS SPROUTS 
Of course, when you're starting your tomato and pepper 
sets you'll want to include cabbage, and perhaps cauli¬ 
flower and brussels sprouts, too. Cabbage isn't hard to 
grow if you keep that insect horde in check, but while 
you're casting a suspicious eye at the squash vine that's 
wilting, saunter over to the cabbage rows and see if you 
can't find a different species of the bug world making 
merry there, too. 
When it comes to choosing varieties, Golden Acre and 
Early Jersey Wakefield will be the best early ones, 
with Glory of Enkhuizen for the middle of the season, 
and Danish Ball Head for a late kind. The Chinese 
cabbage you've been buying on the market (or have 
you discovered it?) isn't grown a thousand miles away, 
either. You can have some in your own garden just as 
easy as not. The heads are long and slender; it's sweet, 
and better adapted to serving sliced and raw than regular 
varieties. The best one, Chihili. 
Cauliflower and Brussels Sprouts are harder to grow. If you 
live in a part of the country that isn't inflicted with drouth 
you have a lot better chance. The 
same bugs that feast on cabbage will 
chew big holes in these varieties, too. 
But if you're not afraid of the weather, 
and you pride yourself on wielding a 
wicked spray gun, your reward will be 
some grand meals next fall. For cauli¬ 
flower, plant Early Snowball; for 
Brussels Sprouts, Dwarf Improved. 
There remain a few under-the- 
ground vegetables and a couple of 
