I wanted to share a quick post about our on-going organic broccoli harvest. As I described in the first broccoli harvest post, after you cut the large center head, “baby” broccoli shoots continue to grow along the stalk for about six weeks. It’s been about 5 weeks and they show no sign of slowing. It [...]
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broccoli harvest follow up
So we harvested the broccoli earlier this week. (Sorry, it’s not a great photo.) I almost made the very mistake I advised against – waiting too long. I kept thinking, “I’ll wait til it gets just a little bigger…” Well with the little heat wave we had courtesy of the Santa Anas, the broccoli stopped [...]
thanksgiving progress
Sorry, I’ve been slacking off with my posts. With the Thanksgiving holiday everything slows down a bit – except our garden! A weeks worth of sunshine and a couple days of rain really got things going. It’s so exciting. The broccoli’s taller, the lettuce & spinach leaves are wider, the strawberry plants are living up [...]
