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<\/a>Ready to harvest at Jones<\/p><\/div>\n
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The broccoli has surpassed my wildest expectations this season, perhaps an easy thing to do since I didn’t expect much.\u00a0 Cabbage, a member of the same family, hasn’t done well for me at all in past years.\u00a0 Bok Choi did o.k., but by this time in past seasons, nasty, hungry bugs I wasn’t familiar with were feasting on both.\u00a0 I’ve had none of these problems this year.\u00a0 The plants are large, healthy and have produced so much we are starting to get a little tired of eating broccoli, an irony that accompanies gardening success.\u00a0 The type I planted, Piracicaba, is a unique variety that grows an initial medium-sized loose head, then produces an abundance of smaller shoots over a long period.\u00a0 It was bred to be heat resistant and produce a crop well into summer.\u00a0 So far, it has.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Broccoli forest towering over the Lorelei<\/p><\/div>\n
Also, the first messes we ate hardly tasted like typical broccoli.\u00a0 This variety is sweet and tender and delicious.\u00a0 In a garden with many different types of plants, a gardener will almost always have some that are doing well and others that are struggling.\u00a0 This year, I’m putting broccoli in the Success column.<\/p>\n
<\/a>The vegetables of my labors<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’m a broccoli farmer, a real big-time producer of the stuff. Up until a week or so ago for the last month and a half, I picked whatever broccoli was ready, usually enough for a meal for the two of … Continue reading