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  • From: "Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>
  • To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Broccoli
  • Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 13:09:32 -0400

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
http://erthnsky.blogspot.com/
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