With the winter growing season drawing to a close, it’s time to clear the garden beds to make space for spring planting. So out come the huge broccoli plants that have kept us so well feed over the last few months. With our two compost bins and one worm farm already full to the rim, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘broccoli’
Turning broccoli and weeds into compost
Posted in Growing our own food, tagged broccoli, compost, spring, weed tea, weeds, winter on September 10, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Purple sprouting broccoli
Posted in Growing our own food, tagged broccoli, winter on August 4, 2011 | 1 Comment »
This is what I love about growing heirloom vegetables: the surprise at creating something so unusual. This is one of four varieties of broccoli that we’re growing this year, all delicious so far!
Autumn seedlings are in the ground
Posted in Growing our own food, tagged autumn, beetroots, broccoli, broccolini, cabbages, carrots, kale, leeks, peas, silverbeet, snow peas, spring onions, turnips on April 2, 2011 | 2 Comments »
We’ve had more luck with our seed raising this year, and last week I transplanted a whole pile of seedlings out into the garden. The beds are looking pretty bare at the moment, but we have a huge crop ahead of us: Carrots Silverbeets Turnips Snow peas Sugar snap peas Peas Leeks Beetroots Spring onions [...]
Broccolini going to seed
Posted in Growing our own food, tagged broccoli, broccolini, seed saving, winter on August 24, 2009 | 2 Comments »
While we were away on holiday, the biggest of our broccolini plants bolted to seed. As you can see above, it’s quite a sight! This seemed like an ideal opportunity to practice our seed saving for the first time. Important tip: Reading up the Seed Savers Handbook, I discovered that broccoli is self-sterile. That is, [...]
Last orders from our winter vege garden
Posted in Growing our own food, tagged broccoli, pak choi, snow peas, sugar snap peas, vegetables, winter on August 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We recently went away for a two week break to Western Australia. Just as we left, the weather was warming up and the garden was delivering its last harvest. Luckily we lined up our next door neighbours to harvest the garden as well as look after the cat. When we got back, they told us [...]
Our current crop of greens
Posted in Growing our own food, tagged broccoli, broccolini, gardening, snow peas, sugar snap peas, winter on July 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This is what we harvested from the garden over the last few days. There are four or five good handfuls of sugar snap peas and snow peas, plus a few modest heads of broccoli and broccolini. The broccoli is just coming into its own, so I expect we’ll have quite a lot of this over [...]
All broccoli, all the time
Posted in Growing our own food, tagged autumn, broccoli, cauliflower, gardening, seeds, winter on July 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I took a two-pronged approach when planting out in Autumn. I bought punnets of dwarf cauliflower, planting out two rows of seedlings. I then supplemented this with two rows of broccoli, planted from seed. At least, that was the plan. As you can see from the picture above, this is broccoli, not cauliflower. In fact, [...]
