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Schools Planting Their Own Cabbage Patches

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Friday, March 04, 2005

Third-grade students at 25 Guilford County elementary schools are getting their own cabbage plant to nurture and tend, courtesy of Bonnie Plant Farm.

These aren`t just run-of-the-mill cabbages, either. They are OS Cross variety – and the OS stands for “oversized.”

“These cabbages will get bigger than a basketball,” said Steve Driggers, a Bonnie Plant Farm salesman based in Fayetteville. The company distributes more than 200,000 cabbage plants to third-graders nationally. The purpose, Driggers said, is to offer students a hands-on lesson in horticulture and science.

Wednesday morning, he and a truckload of cabbage plants visited Morehead Elementary in Greensboro. Driggers told the students to plant the cabbages where they can get direct sunlight and to make sure they get watered every day.

“Plant it deep,” Driggers said. Only about one-third of the plant should stick above the soil, he said. He brought along charts so Morehead students can monitor their progress during the 10 weeks or so it takes to grow a cabbage.

Driggers also left a few extra plants for Morehead`s Environmental Fitness and Good Health Club, which grows a garden on campus.
“We are planting some of the cabbages in front of the school,” third-grader Loren Bibler, a club member, said.

Third-grader Lia Thompson said she thought she could get her cabbage plant to grow.

“I would like to take it home and either plant it in my garden or fill up a pot with soil and fertilizer and put it in there,” she said.

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