Hello Steemit friends!
I wanted to give you a garden update and see how the broccoli is turning out. If you recall from my previous posts:
I planted Broccoli in early October which is way late according to my planting information for my area, so this was an experiment this year.
We had some cold weather a month or so ago, but overall, I think this winter has been very mild. We had a severe thunderstorm roll through last night around midnight which had damaging straight line winds when the squall line came through. This ripped my agribon garden fabric off of my rows:
That's how the fabric looked this morning when I went to the garden.
The florets of the broccoli are looking great. I'm thinking of going ahead and harvesting some today and doing the blanch and freeze as well as eat some fresh for dinner.
Many of them are looking about the size of a dollar bill. That's pretty large.
Just a few are looking like they might start bolting. I definitely do not want that, and with the temperature getting to 70's today (very mild for this time of the year), I'm leaning toward doing at least a partial harvest today.
So, overall, I'm extremely happy with the broccoli, even planting it rather late. The lesson is that you don't necessarily have to exactly follow the planting guidelines to have success.
How is your fall garden going? Does anyone else have anything planted?
