A Mexican standoff is a confrontation between two or more parties in which no participant can proceed or retreat without being exposed to danger. As a result, all participants need to maintain the strategic tension, which remains unresolved until some outside event makes it possible to resolve it.
Steps. 1  1. Prepare the cabbage for canning. 2  2. Rinse the cabbage under cool water in a strainer, then drain the cabbage on cloth or paper towel lined trays for 6 hours. 3  3. Prepare pickling liquid.  4. Clean 7 glass quart (946mL) canning jars and metal lids with soap and hot 1  water. 5. Pack the clean jars with the cabbage.
Harvesting Your Cabbage. About 8 to 10 weeks after planting, your cabbage will be ready to pick. (It may take a little longer if planted in the fall in the far southern states.) You can harvest your cabbage anytime after the head has formed. Sometimes the cabbage head looks ready but isnât. Squeeze the head to see.