This is my biggest broccoli harvest this winter. They are all side shoots. I harvested main heads while they were pretty small, as it was too cold and I didn’t know if they will survive. So it was better to harvest them smaller, than not to harvest them at all.
Now, when we have temperatures above 0C (at night), broccoli side shoots started to grow. And this is not the end of it, there will be more to come. It seems that side shoots make larger harvest than the main head. If anyone is wondering, this is variety Corvet (it was not written on my seed packet, but later I found out that it is an F1 variety).
All of this was used for a creamy pasta sauce: One chopped onion fry in some olive oil, add sliced mushrooms and cook until half done. Add salt and pepper. Add cooking cream, let it boil. Add broccoli and cook for 4 minutes – it is done. Broccoli looses most of the nutrients while cooking, so it is not recommended to cook it longer than 5 minutes. Cook some pasta (pipe rigate was my choice).
Thanks
First thanks goes to Diana for sending me a wonderful collection of seeds, all the way from Australia. She sent me:
Evening sun sunflower,
Hollyhock (white crushed silk),
Stock (astral)
Hollyhock (white crushed silk),
Stock (astral)
Chinese Broccoli (kai laan)
I am looking forward to growing all these wonderful plants and I am also looking forward to next “Seed Week” hosted by her.
Second thanks (it is definitely not second by importance, but ladies go first) goes to Mark for the Chili Award. This is the true award and not a chain letter (which I try to avoid) and so I decided to accept it with great pleasure. Thank you Mark very much for giving this award to me.
Thank you both very much, it is so wonderful to have gardening friends all over the world! Now it seems that it is not such a big world after all!
In other news, more garden related,
- onion seedlings got their first haircut
- leek seedlings got their first haircut too
- From 10 artichoke seeds I sowed 15 days ago, so far only 3 sprouted. I will have to re-sow some more.
- Next to sow are peppers and eggplants – I think it is scheduled for this weekend
Bočni izdanci brokule
Ovo mi je do sada najveća berba brokule. Sve ovo su bočni izdanci. Glavice sam pobrala još dok su bile male, jer sam se bojala da će promrznuti. Sada kako su temperature iznad 0C noću, a danju i više, brokula je opet počela rasti. I ovo nije kraj, biti će još, ne znam još koliko, vjerojatno dok ne postane pretoplo. Ovo je Corvet sorta, nije pisalo na vrećici, ali izgleda da je to F1, pa se ne isplati skupljati sjeme.
Od ove brokule sam napravila kremasti umak za pastu. Propržiti jedan sitno sjeckani luk na malo maslinovog ulja, dodati narezane šampinjone. Kuhati dok nije polu gotovo, posoliti i popapriti. Zaliti sa vrhnjem za kuhanje. Kada prokuha, dodati brokulu i kuhati još 4 minute. Gotovo je. Zaliti umak preko paste (moj izbor je bio pipe rigate).
Od ostalih novosti:
Sav luk je proklijao i ošišala sam ga jer su se listovi počeli petljati i padati jedan preko drugoga. Šišam ga na nekih 4 cm visine. Poriluk također.
Od 10 sjemenki artičoka, samo su 3 proklijale, tako da ću morati posijati ih još.
Sljedeće što sijem je paprika i patliđan.
Od ostalih novosti:
Sav luk je proklijao i ošišala sam ga jer su se listovi počeli petljati i padati jedan preko drugoga. Šišam ga na nekih 4 cm visine. Poriluk također.
Od 10 sjemenki artičoka, samo su 3 proklijale, tako da ću morati posijati ih još.
Sljedeće što sijem je paprika i patliđan.























