Confusion in the garden. All the broccoli bolted straight to flower. Things aren’t going to plan and it has been frustrating us.
The heat has been uncharacteristically prickly for winter, and we’re still hanging out for some rain.
Perhaps we’re being too hard on ourselves trying to work full time and become self-sufficient in only a year. We’ve made so much progress already and learnt how to grow a variety of different produce, such as: beans, cabbage, capsicum, choko, corn, eggplant, jam melon, kumquart, lemon, lettuce, passionfruit, pumpkin, rhubarb, rockmelon, shallots, squash, strawberries, tomato, and watermelon.
We sat down and discussed how we were going to get past our little hurdle (which at the moment seems monumentous). It’s just a blimp as we are nearing the pointy end of our self-sufficiency challenge.
Note: For those forward-thinkers out there (the ones who have probably already bought most of their Christmas presents) the gorgeous full-colour 2010 Permaculture Diary and Permaculture Calendar have just been released.
5 September 2009 at 12:54 am
Try growing Hong Kong broccoli. Can be grown all year round and you eat the entire plant (except the roots). Very small flower heads but sweeter than “normal” broccoli. It does like water otherwise it will set flowers quickly as well. However the flowers are tasty too.
6 September 2009 at 10:21 pm
Jason – thanks for the tip. I’ll have to keep my eye for it.
6 September 2009 at 10:27 pm
At the BOGI Fair, on Sunday the 4th of October at Albion Peace Hall, they will have seeds on sale. There will be Hong Kong broccoli there.
It is definitely an event worth attending.
6 September 2009 at 11:46 pm
Cool.
FYI for others in Brisbane. The The Peace Hall is located at 102 McDonald Road, Windsor, Brisbane. The Hall is situated directly under the Albion overpass near the Albion Railway Station. http://www.bogi.org.au/bogi_fair.htm