This week we got our first broccoli harvest. The heads are much smaller than you find in the store, but I went ahead and harvested some of our biggest ones before the weather turned hot (it got above 90). If it gets too hot, broccoli will bolt, which means it will look like this:
Doesn't even remotely look like broccoli anymore. The good thing about this veggie is that after you harvest the first head, smaller heads will develop around the perimeter of where you made the cut.
This means the plant will keep producing yummy broccoli all summer long, and even into the fall I'm told. We don't end up with huge heads here because our cool growing season isn't very long. Broccoli can actually freeze solid and be perfectly fine once it thaws out. The champion of all veggies!
Yum!
By the way, we ate the broccoli raw and it was delicious.
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