Here is a perfect example of how I can feel like a total idiot in the garden.
My friend very lovingly gave me two broccoli plants. They shot up stalks and flowered, and now they look like this. Nothing like any broccoli I’ve seen. Broccoli should grow kind of like cabbage or cauliflower, kind of like this. Right? I’m really confused. I’m wondering if I have an unusual variety. Maybe they’re mutant. I’m becoming a little impatient but I’m going to wait it out and see what happens.
Categories: vegetables
Tagged: broccoli, garden, home garden, oregon, portland, troubleshooting, vegetable
My c-flower is turning yellow in the sun. Call it sepia. Next year I think I’ll rubber-band the leaves to give them a little cabana so they can stay snowy white. Because we’re all about perfection.
But I also noticed a PURPLE coloration in between the curds. I thought it was a fungus or something. It’s not. Here’s one explanation. I guess it’s just harmless pigment, again, related to sun exposure. It doesn’t seem to be affecting the taste.
Categories: vegetables
Tagged: cauliflower, discoloration, garden, oregon, pigment, portland, purple, troubleshooting, vegetable, yellow
