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["Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>]

Gosh; I haven't even set mine out yet. I'm growing broccoli raab, which is 
actually a turnip, I think. I'm not sure how frost tolerant it is, so I'm 
waiting until after Monday night, hopefully our last frost (the 14 day 
outlook looks good). Yesterday I got a bed ready for sweet corn, which I 
hope to plant this week. I tilled up an extra 10' of lawn at the low end of 
that bed, so I've got more garden!!Yippee! I've got room for more of those 
extra squash and tomatoes that I started.  I now only maitain the lawn in 
the front of the house; the rest I've either tilled up for garden, or let it 
grow long to harvest for hay. My anal neighbor with the lawn like a putting 
green is going to freak.Fortuately we have no lawn laws here, so the "it's 
not a lawn, it's a hayfield" excuse is acceptable.

I also found a bag of fingerling potatoes (2 pounds for $2.99) in the 
grocery store...I've had them in the greenhouse for a week and they look 
like they are sprouting, so I saved a lot on not buying and shipping seed 
fingerlings here (most of the potatoes I plant are sprouted potatoes from 
the grocery store...never had a problem). Now if I could just find a place 
to plant them. I may try the tires, but where do you all get the dirt to 
fill tires??? I'm trying to raise the garden beds taller, but I keep 
stealing dirt for pots and things...I add compost and other organic matter 
every year, but I'm losing dirt as fast as I'm making it.

Lynn Wigglesworth
Tioga Co. PA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "EarthNSky" <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 17, 2009 11:37 AM
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Broccoli


> I harvested my first head, slightly undersized, on 5/2, but truly,
> harvest did not start until 5/11.  I had to cut one early because I did
> not want it to go to waste while we were on vacation.  I grew Packman
> and DeCicco, and the Decicco is doing better, larger plants, larger
> heads, etc.  My broccoli was sown in flats on Jan 38, transplanted to
> the garden on 3/5 and 3/12.  Both varieties had good germination.  I've
> been eating florets in salad and rice and pasta, but have yet to cook a
> head, but so far so gooooood.
>
> Robert Walton wrote:
> > We were keeping tabs of when we planted broccoli and when we harvest
> > it. I set out my plants about 3/20. Heads are coming up and I should
> > start harvest about 5/20.
> >
> > I planted seeds of Green Goliath in early February. I set out maybe 60
> > plants. I planted a dozen Packman broccoli plants also after an
> > unfortunate hen incident that resulted in the demise of my extra
> > plants. The Packman is beating the Goliath, but the bought Packman
> > plants were much bigger.
>
>
> --
> "The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public
> debt  should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered
> and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed
> lest Rome become bankrupt.  People must again learn to work, instead of
> living on public assistance."
>
> --Cicero, 55 BC
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