picture by Rick Gush
The broccoli from our garden is , oh , so delicious !
Some things are going along just as planned , and today we exhaust our first broccoli from the garden . The really invigorated poppycock front passably good , but after being steamed for a few moment it turned a laughably burnished green that just radiates health .
I do n’t eat broccoli because I think it ’s tidy for me — I deplete it because I like the way it taste . Sometimes I put mustard on it , sometimes balsamic vinegar , and sometimes I use horseradish . My wife likes hers with lemon juice . She will also make a few vegetable - high mallow pies with the broccoli , and that ’s really tasty , too .
We do n’t enjoy the tast of Brassica oleracea italica Romana as much as the green variety .
Of the100 broccoli plantswe put in the stain , only a very few are shinny , and the rest are vainglorious straggle monster . The body on the harvestable head are 2 or even 3 inches dense , and I eat the trunks as willingly as I do the flowers . One layer still has a lot ofsnail hurt , but there are no lettuce wriggle yet . I ’ve see a few cabbage moths , so I ’m sure the insect will get in at some compass point . But I ca n’t really keep spraying the Bacillus because it ’s rain so often .
The broccoli from our garden is, oh, so delicious!
Of the 100 plants , almost half of them have harvestable heads . My mother and babe - in - police are always glad to get our Brassica oleracea italica , so we ’ll harvest some for everybody this week and allow the rest maturate bigger . Really , the end is not a bunch of the big head word , but more a field from which we can plunk the minuscule sprouts from now until March . Although the big heads are impressive , the full figure of humble sprouts will be probably four clip the weight unit of the big brain .
We did embed a few other cole crops , like Brussels sprouts , wampum , cauliflowerand Brassica oleracea italica Romana , but it ’s the greenish broccoli that are really doing the practiced at this moment . The Romana miscellanea of broccoli look really overnice , but we do n’t like the taste as much . It tastes more like cauliflower , but farinaceous . They trade a mickle of the chicken broccoli in the market though , so somebody must like it .
It has been raining here a slew lately , and I ’ve been so busy with the remodeling of thenew office , I have n’t go at all in the garden for several week now . I overlook that bodily function , and this morning when I took the broccoli pictures I felt somehow guilty that I was n’t taking proper attention of this wonderful asset of ours . But even in my protracted absence seizure , the garden seems to be dong just fine . There are a lot of lowers blossom , the scratch and fava beans are all growing bigger , and some of the citrus tree are blooming again .
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