VERY well, thank you :o) This weather & lots of watering are doing wonders!
My purple sprouting broccoli is, well, sprouting :o) Not sure when its ready to harvest... its about 2 foot tall & veeery bushy, with little sprouty bits on a couple of `em. What do I do? Pick off the sprouting bits as they appear & it`ll keep on cropping? Or do I leave & pick the whole thing off & then the plant is finished? If anybody knows please tell me... there was no info on the tray of seedlings & I cant find it even googling.
Its all lovely and lush down the side, as you can see :o) Lots of tomatoes & courgettes are coming, and the strawberrys have already provided a lovely big bowl full ...
Beans, herbs and rhubarb are coming on...
Elsewhere the tayberrys are ripening, & potatoes & onions looking good. Rachael is entering the junior section of a local gardening show in September - she has a dahlia and savoy cabbage growing for that :o) Will take pics & post another time.
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Well I know nothing about sprouting broccoli and mine is only a few inches tall and I hope will crop next spring. I'd go for picking as soon as the shoots are ready though in the hope it might try and make more shoots - works for flowers so it may be the same. I've put net over ours now in the hope of defeating the pigeons! xx
Hi Deborah, I just noticed you have the IFA's badge on your blog with a link to their site, just thought I'd warn you that I'd done the same thing but was asked to remove it.
Hi Fibrespace - are you a member of the IFA? Im a member, and asked if they had a widget or logo I could use, the lady I emailed didnt deal with that sort of thing & was passing it on... but I didnt hear back - so I just used their badge logo - cant see why it would be a problem tbh.
Thanks for the thought though, I`ll check it out
Hiya L :o) them naughty pigeons have gobbled all your broccoli up havent they?! Bad birdies! I think Im lucky they havent spotted mine - we have LOADS of pigeons here - wood & normal. Im going to do what you suggested, broccoli with tonights pasta (which will have homegrown curly kale in too :o)
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