Broccoli for Supper

It looked like the broccoli flowers might be getting ready to open so I picked a head today although it wasn't as big as I would have hoped for.

Ploppy Showing How Big the Broccoli Is

The broccoli head isn't quite as tight as I'm used to seeing in the store. Perhaps the heads get more spread out before they should be picked?

Broccoli is Looking Good

The coloration on some of the leaves isn't looking great, but the broccoli heads are growing.





Here's one of the broccoli heads just peeking out from the leaves.











The garlic has been sending up new leaves.

More Broccoli!

Despite the freezing temps even in the greenhouse overnight, the broccoli plants all have little heads growing! I took these photos first thing in the morning. You can see the frost on the leaves. Brrr. Even the one plant that is flopped over growing pretty much sideways has a head on it. It's not pretty, but apparently functional. I've got one tiny broccoli plant too with maybe seven leaves on it that I thought the winter weather would have done in by now, but it's persevering. I can't wait until I can go out and pick a fresh head of broccoli for supper!

The garlic is also growing again now that its in the greenhouse. It seems like the highs and lows ought to be a little confusing to the plants, but I guess they're managing. With the sun beating down during the day it'll get to around 80. Then at night it drops below freezing. I've only lost one garlic plant (one of the two I planted from cloves I bought at Trader Joe's). At least the one leaf that was above ground is totally dead. Here's a picture of one of the garlic pots that is doing well.

As for the remaining plants, some of the onions that have leaves have pretty much disappeared. Some of the others still have green leaves, but only one or two. It's not an impressive showing. The lettuce pretty much bit the dust. The little seedlings I think were just too small to survive the freezing temps.

Stew Carrots

I decided to pull a bunch of the carrots today to add to a beef stew I was making. Most of them were not full size, but I wanted them for the stew and I wasn't sure how the heat and then cold were treating them outside. I left some in the pots so I'll see how they do with a little more time on them.