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CitySlicker
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I cut them down all the time around St. Pete. They sprout up all over the place. So you guys are saying the best is 1 that is only about 8ft. from the ground to the top of the frawns. With little or no real trunk yet. Want kind of yield should I get off 1. , or would I need several to serve as a side dish for say 6 people.

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doghunter
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I cut them down all the time around St. Pete. They sprout up all over the place. So you guys are saying the best is 1 that is only about 8ft. from the ground to the top of the frawns. With little or no real trunk yet. Want kind of yield should I get off 1. , or would I need several to serve as a side dish for say 6 people.

1 cabbage should feed an avg of 2 adults I would think..although we have large appetites around here lol. I like to get the smaller cabbages, the ones where the head of the palm (right below the green fronds) is about waist high. With sabal palm as thick as the planted pines on our lease, I can be choosy and I am not walking very far off the road to cut one either.

Nothin beats fried roe mullet or backstrap with a bowl of cheese grits and swamp cabbage :chef. That's fine eating for a Fl. cracker.

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Skunk Ape
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It wasn't that long ago that hogs were all under claims. I've heard of people getting shot because of taking a hog without permission.I thought y'all were just kidding about the wild cows.

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Dang DH, you talkin my language now!!!. My buddy gets me red roe mullet in November for next to nothing. I ate so many last year I thought I would explode

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Skunk Ape
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Not a lot of yield for the amount of work but man is it good. I like to cook it with some bacon.I never did it till about 6 yrs ago. They cut a few down on a jobe we were doing and we cut the heads out and went to peeling the fronds off.

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