Cabbage in the basement

Another post on growing food in winter. 

Note to self (and others), you can't dig up the fall cabbage that didn't do so hot in the garden, repot it, and expect it to grow big in the basement in the winter. 

I thought this was a good idea.  In 2010 my fall cabbage and kale crops did great - nice big heads on the cabbage.  We blanched and froze a bunch.  In 2011 I planted cabbage and kale in fall hoping to get the same results.  Perhaps I planted a bit late, I'm still trying to figure that out, but in any case it didn't do so well.  Before the first hard freeze I cut most of it down and used some of it fresh and I blanched and froze a rather small amount.  There were no heads on either the Famosa or the Early Jersey Wakefield.  I decided to dig up two of the Early Jersey Wakefield and put them in pots, in organic potting soil, and grow them in the basement.  We have nice windows in the basement, and I put them near the south-facing windows where we get good light and the tropical plants winter over.  Yep...sounds good...but it didn't work.  Here's a picture of the cabbage now, two months later:

It's pretty and we'll have a nice slaw from it, but apparently I shouldn't expect to get a head of cabbage.  Oh well, as I'm constantly saying about this whole thing: it's all a big experiment.