Chasing Babies... Growing in Grace: Harvesting: First Broccoli Head

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Harvesting: First Broccoli Head

I haven't done much talking about our garden/greenhouse. In a perfect world I'da blogged it in real time, but it took so much time and energy that I didn't blog about it at all. But you know what? We built a greenhouse this year... and planted a garden inside it.

Maybe someday I'll get pictures posted.

But that is not what this post is about... this post is to share about our first harvest!

And broccoli at that.

And don't think this is any small thing. Broccoli has proven very difficult to grow. After giving up on starting it from seed, we purchased a transplant from the natural food store we like to shop at. It doubled and tripled and more very quickly. Then before we knew it, there was a flower head growing in there. And now...