Hello there everybody,
After all the excitement of the weekend I spent a good part of the day yesterday in the garden.
A while ago I had cleaned out the bed that had previously grown such a wonderful crop of beans and replanted it with some autumn broccoli, kohlrabi and some lettuce.
We have been eating the lettuce and the kohlrabi and I decided it was time to get in whatever broccoli had managed to grow. We have had a couple nights with a hard frost and although the broccoli is somewhat cold tolerant there was no point in leaving it there.
A couple of the plants only managed to produce a small head but a few of them did grow out a really decent size head of broccoli.
I have cut them all and after sorting them, we will get three nice meals from this lovely little pile I have here.
When you are gardening in a climate such as ours where it is not a very long growing season you need to take advantage of succession planting. We only had in about 10 plants but at least they managed to produce a small crop. Of course next year will be different as the beds are already constructed so the plants will go in earlier and that will make a big difference.
Thanks for stopping by. Next discussion will be on planting garlic. Cheers.
After all the excitement of the weekend I spent a good part of the day yesterday in the garden.
A while ago I had cleaned out the bed that had previously grown such a wonderful crop of beans and replanted it with some autumn broccoli, kohlrabi and some lettuce.
We have been eating the lettuce and the kohlrabi and I decided it was time to get in whatever broccoli had managed to grow. We have had a couple nights with a hard frost and although the broccoli is somewhat cold tolerant there was no point in leaving it there.
A couple of the plants only managed to produce a small head but a few of them did grow out a really decent size head of broccoli.
I have cut them all and after sorting them, we will get three nice meals from this lovely little pile I have here.
When you are gardening in a climate such as ours where it is not a very long growing season you need to take advantage of succession planting. We only had in about 10 plants but at least they managed to produce a small crop. Of course next year will be different as the beds are already constructed so the plants will go in earlier and that will make a big difference.
Thanks for stopping by. Next discussion will be on planting garlic. Cheers.
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