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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘broccolini’
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 »
Chinese cabbage gone to seed
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged broccolini, chinese cabbage, seed saving, seeds, spring on September 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
We planted about eight chinese cabbages, grown from seed. Most of them we ate, even if we had to fight it out with the slugs for the meals. With the warming weather, however, a number of the cabbages bolted straight to seed. No matter, a good opportunity to seed save for next year. Like broccolini, [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
