I’m going to try 4 brussels sprouts plants this year for the first time. I have had great luck with cabbage, and bad luck with broccoli. These seem to be somewhere in between the two, but leaning more towards cabbage. Wish me luck.
Posts Tagged ‘broccoli’
18 May
Harvested some broccoli
We had one broccoli ready to eat tonight. I have never grown broccoli anywhere approaching the size of what you get in a bunch at the store. My best was probably 6 or 8 times smaller than that. This one was a single stem 2 to 3 inches wide at the top. Slightly more than [...]
5 Apr
First week of April Garden Overview
My average last frost date of the year is April 14th. That means there is still a 50/50 chance that I could get another frost on that date. A week later is my 10% chance date. This year has been different. We haven’t had a frost for about two weeks now, since late March. The [...]
25 Mar
Hardening off the broccoli
Blurry camera phone picture: Here are 63 broccoli young’ins, inside the plastic greenhouse shelf thing that R. gave me for Christmas in late 2008. Unfortunately the cloth used in the zipper has badly deteriorated after only six months outside last summer, so this will probably be the last year I can use this as a [...]
22 Mar
Potting up broccoli seedlings
As the broccoli grew true leaves and was a few inches tall, they needed more root space. Each one will get transplanted once into a 4 inch pot. They take up a lot more room after I transplant them…imagine that. These can get planted outside in as little as 2 or 3 weeks here in [...]
21 Mar
Thompson Broccoli seedlings
Here are half of my broccoli seedlings. I am growing Thompson seeds this year. I must admit that I feel a bit nervous planting all one variety, but that’s what I did. We’ll see if I will learn this lesson the hard way. Monoculture? I’m so bad. The 72 plants I started will be planted [...]
3 Feb
Kid’s Garden Planner
I am adding two new 4 ft x 8 ft garden beds this year, so I decided to let my kids each plant one. I’ll also let our wonderful friend and neighbor, M., plant one of my existing 4×8′s. These children are 8, 6 and 6 years old, so I made them up a planning [...]
17 Jun
Bye bye Broccoli
The spring broccoli is played out and it’s time to reuse much of this space in my garden. All of the Broccoli is going to be uprooted and composted this week if the ground dries out a bit. After the broccoli makes me a main flower head and a few side shoots I reuse the [...]
17 May
May 2009 Backyard Garden
Gardening by numbers Bed 1 is my wife’s herb garden with an 8 foot row of cucumbers along the fence. Just seeded this weekend. Bed 2 has strawberries, three kinds of peppers and a couple eggplants I got at the farmer’s market this weekend. Bed 3 is seeded with sweet corn on the left [...]
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