DB: I really need to sort out my Cultivation Station.

VG: Have you planted the cabbages I gave you yet?

DB: No not yet I need to sort out the Cultivation Station.

VG: Have you watered the cabbages yet?

DB: It rained…..

VG: *blank look*

DB: (Changing the subject) Do you know what attacks cabbages at this time of year?

VG: You are asking me? Slugs probably, they attack everything. I even spotted one after my pepper plant this morning, luminous orange it was and I could see it from the patio window.

DB: Hmm….. (wishing she hadn’t asked).

VG: You know what? I don’t understand this annual wall planner for growing vegetables.

DB: How’s that?

VG: Well it says I should be planting cabbages in February, but I got mine from the man down the road who said I could plant them now.

DB: The man down the road?

VG: Yes.

DB: Ok (puzzled). Anyway that means planting seeds and your cabbages are already grown.

VG: Oh right, so when does that mean I can harvest them?

DB: Well the best thing to do is look on the packet.

VG: But they didn’t come in a packet.

DB: I don’t know then.

Note to self: Ask man down the road when I can harvest the cabbages – usually before or at purchase – not after.
Note to readers: The man down the road is actually an employee at a plant nursery.