a baseline to the taste. Don't much like cooked broccoli unless it comes with hollandaise sauce.

Steamed until it’s bright green with just butter and sea salt! Or maybe a splash of rice vinegar! Or how about cheese sauce? Hey, a stir fry with chicken, cashews, shiitake mushrooms and Bok choy! Yum!

ok, please tell me how to keep the broccoli free of butterflies/cabbage loopers? I quit growing broccoli a few years ago because of the worms...


...my garden is also growing well this year... just no broccoli

And I don't think any of my neighbors grow Brassicas (just cannabis )

Nothing has really touched the kale, brussels sprouts or red cabbage

So I think I just lucked out.

But the freakin' deer ate all my beets, dry beans and half my squash -

The tomato plants broke down ALL my tomato towers.

Lots of tomato-basil-oregano-garlic sauce in my future

First year, I had beautiful broccoli. Second year, it had little worms, so I don't grow it anymore either. Fresh-picked broccoli is so much tastier than that limp stuff they sell in the produce dept.

her haul. But of course great fresh stuff all season too.

She runs our sideline business and is gone too much to really keep the garden up like she would like. I should be able to help with a lot of that and really increase the yields. She also started fruit trees a few years ago that are now just getting going good. Next up are chickens.

It'll be the first time I've had an awesome garden since I was a kid. About everyone on the block had some kind of fruit trees too. I'm looking forward to that.

when I moved to my new place.

Next year - elderberries, apricots - and more cherries.

I want to have something in season all summer long.

I still haven't got the knack of growing parsnips - which I could harvest in spring before the garden goes in...

But I aiin't gonna starve to death.

Despite Trump and the asshole GOP.

Also. It is truly astonishing how much food one can grow in a greenhouse (depending on where you are), potentially even triple cropping it.

Growing things is so much fun.