chuckwood
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We had a nice snow last nite, around 4 inches, and the low tonite is gonna be around 8. So I had to harvest all my cabbage. I planted it too late in the season, so I let it go this long to try and get the heads up to some size before cutting them. Cabbage and brussels sprouts seem to tolerate cold pretty well, but not 8. So this afternoon I picked almost 2 bushels. This week I'll be making sauerkraut with this cabbage. Slice it all up in a food processor, and then salting it down and placing it all in a large ceramic crock to ferment. Kraut making seems to go better in the colder time of the year, if your kraut gets too warm the fermentation process can go haywire. Tonite I just ate the very last of the big batch of kraut I made in early summer '16. Still good! And good for you.........