[willowman]

Planted some cabbage plugs late last year (Oct Nov I think).
Covered them with fleece to protect them over winter, and sort of left them to get on with growing. In Feb took the fleece off to discover they were a bit waterlogged - we do flood here - and the tops were not looking too good, ie very soggy.
So I took fleece off and covered them with the poly cloches I got for Chrissie presents, thinking they will either recover or not.
Removed cloche last week to find very tall cabbages, about 1ft tall,  with open leaves, only one had any semblance of a heart. Looks like they have bolted but I thought plants only bolted when it was very dry.
Since removing the cloches some of the tops have started to form loose hearts.
What went wrong please?
Obviously they will not form proper hearts now, but I assume we can still eat the leaves which have grown?
Oh dear this gardening lark is beset with problems.

[Celery]

I saw a cabbage plant with three heads to one root.A lot of my cabbage have not hearted up this year
                                 celery

[JulesJ]

Too warm under the cloches, maybe?

[mumofstig]

Any plant that gets stressed is likely to run to seed. What with being too wet, then too warm i think they were generally unhappy thats all.

[willowman]

I don't know, you do your best for them, give them plenty to drink, keep them nice and warm and how do they repay you? By getting stressed and unhappy! Perhaps if I go down and apologise to them they might forgive me, and start to grow normally.
Or I could just pull them up and eat them! That'll show 'em who's boss in this garden.

Sorry, starting to sound like the other contributors to this forum......nutty.
It's being nutty that keeps us all sane.

[Parsnip]

I don't know, you do your best for them, give them plenty to drink, keep them nice and warm and how do they repay you? By getting stressed and unhappy! Perhaps if I go down and apologise to them they might forgive me, and start to grow normally.
Or I could just pull them up and eat them! That'll show 'em who's boss in this garden.

Sorry, starting to sound like the other contributors to this forum......nutty.
It's being nutty that keeps us all sane.

It might work willowman, it's certainly worth a try I'd say....

[mumofstig]

That'll show 'em who's boss in this garden.

Sorry but you aint the boss ............i Mother nature is with her choice of weather.
Humans just think they're in charge

[azubah]

They sound a bit like my spring cabbages. I cut the tops off leaving the roots in and they sprout more little cabbages out of the sides of the stalks. My spring cabbages last until I can't stand the sight of them anymore...and I love spring cabbage.

[willowman]

Good idea azubah, I'll do that. Cut and use as spring cabbage and leave the root to see what happens. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.