One Green Acre » broccoli http://onegreenacre.com Our 1 Acre - One Veggie Patch at a Time Thu, 30 Sep 2010 21:14:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 Been a while http://onegreenacre.com/2008/06/09/been-a-while/ http://onegreenacre.com/2008/06/09/been-a-while/#comments Mon, 09 Jun 2008 10:31:23 +0000 AndrewD http://onegreenacre.com/?p=78 I spent two weeks in Sydney, you see I normally return to Yass on the Thursday nite, but there were a few bike things I had to do last weekend for one the of the groups I am still a member of (BikeSydney – http://bikesydney.org) and I wanted to make it to at least one Sydney Swans game at the SCG (turned out to be the last Sunday game for the year at the SCG). Lee-Ann came down for the weekend and the inlaws stayed with the kids.

I’ll just say I drank far to much beer for two weeks. I need a couple of weeks detox.

Anyway all has now returned to normal and I returned on the Thursday nite train to Goulburn, Lee-Ann and the kids met me at the station and we had some chinese for dinner.

So whats happened, there are now 37 garlic – woohoo, now as long as they last till harvest. Some of the onions of sprouted. Broad beans seems to be going on OK. I have never grown broad beans before so not sure what to expect. Is 8 plants enough? I have planted a second lot of 5 plants (approx 4 weeks behind).

The other news being that we ate our first home grown broccoli and how fantastic it was, I waited until 30 minutes before we needed it so It was the freshest possible, and just steamed it with some butter. It was a side to a casserole I made.

The cauliflower is also coming up nicely (you can see it hidden behind the leaves) – I say we will be eating some in a week. We are doing grub patrol, as we have some green grubs on the plants. And every time we see one it gets the under the boot treatment.

]]> http://onegreenacre.com/2008/06/09/been-a-while/feed/ 2 The First of the Broccoli http://onegreenacre.com/2008/05/17/the-first-of-the-broccoli/ http://onegreenacre.com/2008/05/17/the-first-of-the-broccoli/#comments Sat, 17 May 2008 20:29:51 +0000 AndrewD http://onegreenacre.com/?p=76 I came home on Thursday nite and Lee-Ann told me the first of my Broccoli is beginning to form a head, Always excited with the first one.

Also 21 garlic have now appeared.

And the cold is beginning to set in (the past few days), while the morning temperatures have been 8 or less for the past few days, it is really because the days have been overcast. Good thing we have the gas heater now – so lets see how many bottles of gas we chew thru.

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Broad Beans

Some Broccoli

Broccoli

Cauliflower

Cauliflower

And Garlic

Sprouting Garlic

]]> http://onegreenacre.com/2008/05/12/whats-in-the-garden/feed/ 0 Last Week (24th Feb) – The Vege Patch #2 http://onegreenacre.com/2008/03/01/last-week-24th-feb-the-vege-patch-2/ http://onegreenacre.com/2008/03/01/last-week-24th-feb-the-vege-patch-2/#comments Sat, 01 Mar 2008 11:40:55 +0000 AndrewD http://onegreenacre.com/2008/03/01/last-week-24th-feb-the-vege-patch-2/ So last week I planted in veg Patch number 2 (The 1st of the rock log vege patches)

  • Cauliflower – All Year Rounder
  • Red Cabbage – Ruby Ball F1
  • Broad Beans – Coles Early Dwarf
  • Broccoli – Emperor F1

I will sneak in there some more parsley as well.

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