#broccoli plant

[thestudentfarmer]

Hello hello~

I've got some garden pic updates :)

New sunflower patch, I'm only doing a small patch here as It's to tide over till I get some more scaping/zoning planned up. These are from 4th gen mix seeds (I got them from some friends and classmates)

Same row, I purchased some jalapeno starts as the peppers I seed started are still super small currently.

Same tows, some super late starting spinach. I'm letting it grow to see if I can see what seeding for spinach is like and share that with you all :)

In the white line/square is a wild seeded chamomile plant. I pulled it and gave it to the chickens as a treat.

Further up is the remaining carrots and some tomato starts we purchased, now interplanted with them. There's 2 slicer types and a grape variety. I don't remember offhand if they are determinate or indeterminate. Unfortunately the ones I seed started died off once they were returned outside.

:( thankfully we've all agreed to go light on tomatoes this year due to that.

In ground some direct seeded squash, these are a patty pan/Starburst variety and a couple zuchinni. With luck this year we avoid the squash bugs!

The direct seeded nasturtium in the back and front is careless wildseeded chamomile (I swear it's the best way to grow it and will be sowing another patch like this)

The few eggplants I've left for now have flowers, pointed to by the white arrows.

And the broccoli currently, the seeds aren't ready quite yet, but I pulled a pod the birds got to to check them, still pretty green but the seeds are of good size. Still lots of lovely flowers for the various pollinators of the area. Unlike carrot flowers, broccoli seems to attract mostly bees (the honeybees) I haven't seen too many butterflies, moths, flies or otherwise.

Just a bee enjoying some broccoli pollen~

For pest report,

So far I've seen flies and stink bugs.

No ants, aphids and thankfully no squash bugs so far.

Beneficial bug report,

I did see some ladybird gators while doing maintenence cleanup. Some small soil roachs in a few of the beds earthworms while trimming off roots to old sunflower stems.

Mixed bugs:

What I believe to be praying mantis egg cases, I don't know how old or how new they are though.

Pillbugs in some of the beds.

Our parrot visitors have stopped coming by, unfortunatly we no longer have any sunflower heads available for them. When more sunflowers come in I hope they will visit again, or perhaps even when the hollyhocks start seeding. Plenty of the smaller birds of the area still visiting though. I find the thought they might get broccoli seed and wild seed it elsewhere very funny.

This week I plan to work on getting a water line in and some more deep beds set up for growing more sweet potato vines/spuds. As well as getting some melon seeds direct seeded if I can (I may need more soil first to refill the bed).

Started some new spuds to vine for the sweet potato's and ordered some sunchoke tubers and seeds to start out some new herbs/spices and teas.

That's it for today's post and update 😊

🌱🌻Happy homesteading and Urban Farming🌻🌱

3.21.2024

[lucidpast]

Broccoli Monster Sofubi

Plant Revolution (植物革命), 1972

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Sunday 27 August 2023

Brassica oleracea (Italica Group) (broccoli) is a cool weather vegetable grown for large, tight, terminal heads of green flower buds at the ends of thick edible stems. Or as I found at a local horticultural show in Kirkwall, Orkney, it can be a poodle!

Jill Raggett

[somesecretpie]

Have some Foxgloves!!!

[vegan-nom-noms]

Vegan Beef And Broccoli Noodles

[morethansalad]

Salade de Pâtes & Brocoli Vegan / Vegan Pasta & Broccoli Salad

[plantbasedmimi3]

Need a yummy tofu recipe? Try this easy tofu & broccoli!

VEGAN TOFU & BROCCOLI STIR FRY

1 block (16 ounces super firm tofu)

1 broccoli crown cut into florets (about 8 ounces)

3 tablespoons cornstarch

2 teaspoons light olive oil

¼ cup low sodium soy sauce

¼ cup grade A maple syrup

½ teaspoon garlic powder

1 tablespoon sesame seeds

Salt and black pepper to taste

[zuckarr]

I just realized I have been doing both dieting and exercising - I went vegan 2 years ago and I've been walking miles every day for work, up and down hills - and I still eat the same amounts of food I used to eat before all this (even less because I literally have less time to eat now), yet I haven't lost ONE kg. Oh no! A fat person just proved that dieting and exercising won't always work to lose this demonic mass of fat! Quick fatphobes, get all the successful weight loss stories and blame the fat person's "failure" on something else!

[friendlymathematician]

someone tell me to stop buying seeds i have no self control and cannot be trusted with this

[e-b-reads]

These kinds of non-fiction library books never end up on any of my lists, because I don't read them cover-to-cover, but they're fun to flip through, and occasionally useful!

[clannfearrunt]

the other day the father was going off about augh we need more flowers we need to attract Pollinators we need bugs and I’m still just. this man’s relationship with insects is so infuriating to watch in a way I am apparently suddenly incapable of articulating.

anyways if you want bugs father if you plant a brassica. They (the cabbage butterflies) (and the wasps) Will Come. they will come in droves. we know this. you know this. let go of the concept of “growing the brassica for the intent of human consumption”. that thing is for the bugs. accept it. plant the fucking sacrificial broccoli

[storm-of-feathers]

I, the great and powerful alex the most specialest person ever and the god of all mortals, am the only person ever to be annoyed with the correct things.

[somesecretpie]

Sailing the ocean to the island of ash

[vegan-nom-noms]

Cheesy Vegan Broccoli & Barley With White Beans