Cabbage for Many

Deanna started growing this cabbage in the Spring. Bonnie Bell, the seed company, has a program for third graders. They supply the cabbage plants to all third grade students in the state. The children are to grow the cabbages through the summer and turn in a picture of themselves with their cabbage to their teacher at the end of the summer. The weight of the cabbage is to entered on the form and each school submits the picture of their largest cabbage for consideration. The largest cabbage in the state wins its grower a $1,000 scholarship.

Deanna harvested her cabbage yesterday. We took pictures and triumphantly carried it into Kroger for our official weighing - 7.83 lbs. (it seemed much larger to me). We took the pictures to her teacher who said Deanna's was the only picture turned in. Most of the students' cabbages had died before the end of the summer. If there were any more turned in today, the largest would be sent to Bonnie Bell, but Deanna's had a good chance of taking first place from her school.

She was very excited. Apparently, before school got out, her classmates made fun of her cabbage and joked that it was still as small as when she had first planted it. Last night, at dinner, we were talking about humility. Deanna asked what it meant. I said, "Not making fun of other people's cabbages." Her eyes lit up. She got it.

Here's hoping Bonnie Bell thinks as highly of her cabbage as the Doughty family. In any case, she's very happy that she participated and thankful that her cabbage survived the drought and bugs. And the fried cabbage we had for dinner last night was great!