Post B2DpLSEL5i60xuMWCe by gbargoud@masto.nyc
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(DIR) Post #B2DojgX9SlZKK39TNI by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-12T21:56:56Z
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The people of New York have a strange relationship to plants. We are perhaps somewhat alienated from nature, but nothing could’ve prepared me for the cabbages. When I first saw the cabbages I was angry. They were growing in a tree box on the sidewalk in Midtown a place not a suitable place for a cabbage, and clearly someone had spent like a Soltan.1/
(DIR) Post #B2Dou8CfRWDJ2AYGPY by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-12T21:58:48Z
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Oh these were gorgeous purple, cabbages, already big and leafy: if they had been just placed in *my* roof garden, they would’ve formed the most lovely heads nurtured by vermiculture.But no! these cabbages would languish in midtown Manhattan, get pissed upon by dogs and be inedible. It was infuriating.2/
(DIR) Post #B2Dp2tO7tX1Lgx5a9w by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-12T22:00:24Z
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BUT: that’s when I took a closer look, because the cabbages were even stranger than I had thus far suspected.can you guess? that’s right they were FAKE. plastic cabbages!!I don’t know if that makes me MORE or less angry. 3/3
(DIR) Post #B2DpLSEL5i60xuMWCe by gbargoud@masto.nyc
2026-01-12T22:03:42Z
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@futurebird More. A cabbage planted and abandoned to dog piss is still adding a lot of the benefits of plant life. Not much was wasted as they practically grow on trees.
(DIR) Post #B2DpaShDdpmqkn1iKm by MCDuncanLab@mstdn.social
2026-01-12T22:06:25Z
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@futurebird How weird.
(DIR) Post #B2DqQSdT6yQncm4F5k by darkling@mstdn.social
2026-01-12T22:13:40Z
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@futurebird One thing I remember from my first (and only) visit to Toronto -- in early December, many years ago -- was the decorative cabbages planted in small plots outside people's homes. I had no idea that they were a thing.Brassicas, eh? Weirder and much more annoying than beans...
(DIR) Post #B2DtLiVuwtoXHgxtY0 by Bumblefish@mastodon.scot
2026-01-12T22:23:57Z
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@darkling @futurebird Decorative brassicas are a NY tradition in much of Asia.
(DIR) Post #B2DtLjrZvqjdTA6hwu by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-12T22:48:35Z
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@Bumblefish @darkling I'm not impressed if you buy them that big at the nursery. Which is what I thought they did. Until I started feeling depressed about the sorry state of my own cabbage efforts... how could they beat me with such healthy green and so little sunlight... and so many... additives?Cheating. That is how.
(DIR) Post #B2DtQfD4f09gU9VgIa by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-01-12T22:49:30Z
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@angelastella There are less glamorous things that will grow in such places.