When tenderly potting on my cabbage seedlings I cast my mind back to when I was a kid ( thats a long, long time ago ) where there used to be a dozen ( long before metric) bare root plants of cabbages tied up with string in a galvanised bucket of water outside hardware shops. These were weird and wonderful places with thing hung everywhere. Wallflowers were sold the same way
Were plants tougher then ? or has life got softer