Here is Early Jersey Wakefield that makes the conical heads. You can see one of the wayward Jerusalem artichoke shoots popping up between its leaves. Those things sure spread!
The last of my varieties, Deadon, a larger, later season red savoy (mostly green really though) is just starting to get into heading mode, so is several weeks off. More of those JA sprouts off to the side, lol.
And my broccoli. The non heading is good and the later season seem okay, but most of the early season variety got hit with the heat in the 90s when they started to head so the first parts of the florets gots pushed towards flowering too quickly before the rest matures. Still good, but they won’t be as large. At least this variety makes a lot of side shoots.
mustard is glorious. bok choi black summer grew well and i harvested already. my cabbages are only now beginning to have tighter center leaves. raab and kale always survive winter and make more.
Had more luck with kohlrabi in the spring this year than I have in the past here. I picked three of them today, each one about half a pound. No sign of bolting so far, which has been a problem in the past.
My French breakfasts that i forgot about bolted about a month ago. I slowly it cut all down. Here’s the last few that got pulled yesterday. White flowers. Maybe 3-4’ but sprawled on top of everything at this point. Pollinators were happy. The yellow is bolted mizuna before cleaned a bunch up.
I’ve been harvesting a lot of broccoli side shoot and the shoots from the non-heading broccoli, all of which gets roasted with olive oil, salt and pepper. So good. I’ve given away a bunch of cabbage, but kept 2 more today to put in the fridge. Alcosa savoy on the left and early jersey wakefield on the right, which is one of the conical types. I should have left the wakefield longer since it wasn’t a very big head once pulled off the outside leaves. I froze all the more tender outside leaves to use in greeen smoothies.
I am so impressed with your heads of cabbage. Those are just beautiful. Inspiring me to try cabbage again next year. Wha are you planting in their place?
my cabbage is finally heading up a little. i usually get one good one a week by the end of June. might be late this year though, will see. that savoy is my favorite. i also have green and flat Dutch out there.
4 plants and we get this amount ever 3 days for the past month. The calabrese green brococli took longer to produce and produces a fraction. Next year im doing 8 of these and it will handle my broccoli consumption. Anyone know when ill need to pull it?
seems like it, especially since one florette flowered already and i just snipped it off and it still tasted good, like how gailan can keep being eaten when flowered
The Millenium broccoli are starting to develop their crowns. This one is a longer season broc with pretty good heat resistance. It doesn’t do much for side shoots, so I just harvest the whole things all at once, but the crowns get really big.
As happens every year, I’ve been seeing people posting runty and often over crowded broccoli plants on my local facebook groups and asking when they’ll make crowns. Many don’t realize what a big plant is needed to make a big crown or often anything substantial at all. This plant is nearly 4 feet in diameter and overlaping those next to it that I’ve already harvested from.
My Aspabroc Broccolini continues to produce from early spring to late fall, but this is in the cool summer climate of the PNW near Vancouver, BC. You can keep these plants productive after the first harvest by limiting the growth of new shoots to one or two. If you don’t cut off most of the new shoots, you will get a mass of tiny flower heads not worth harvesting.
In a mild winter, or with some protection, these broccolini plants will survive the winter.
