My first 2009 harvest of broccoli and carrots. Six ounces of baby carrots (four varieties, the Imperator are the nicest) and 4 ounces of broccoli....and it doesn't taste a bit like store-bought or frozen! It's very mild flavored, and I combined it with the baby carrots, a dab of real butter, salt & pepper. I'm serving it with grilled chicken breast and boiled baby new potatoes with parsley butter. Nope, not my potatoes....yet!
It just does not get any better than that! We just started eating on our broccoli too - but our first crop of carrots are not quite colored up enough yet to enjoy. Yours look beautiful though and much further along than ours.
ReplyDeleteNow I wish I had grown more broccoli. Mr. H doesn't like it, but he ate every bite that I served him tonight. Of course, he knows he's in trouble if he doesn't ;-)
ReplyDeleteSounds soooo good... yummy!!!
ReplyDeleteLook at the pretty colors of those carrots!
I've never had fresh garden broccoli... I just finished filling my last 4x8 bed with mix... maybe I'll see if the greenhouse has some...
You've had a wonderful gardening day today Grannie!
That is a wonderful mix of carrots. I have atomic red growing now but they are still tiny and I just seeded some nantes the other day. Your garden is light years ahead of mine.
ReplyDeleteHey! Is that "EG broccoli"? Can I add it to my total? Ha!
ReplyDeleteIt's been a busy gardening day, Toni, beginning with trying to tie up my indeterminate tomatoes, weeding all the pathways, removing roots from the dirt we excavated for the shed and then moving the dirt to a new garden bed, watering everything including all the containers....picking, cooking, preserving. I'm pooped!
ReplyDeleteDan, some of those are "Rainbow", but all I've seen so far are yellow and white...I'm looking for the purple ones! No matter what I plant, I always go back to Imperator as my favorite.
ReplyDeleteEG, yes...in the form you sent it. You can weigh the seeds and add them to your total ;-)
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Granny
ReplyDeleteThose carrots look yummy!
I'm going to have to try and grow broccoli. You are the second person this week that has said fresh is way better than store bought.
Liisa
Ha! That was funny....I added a little bit to my total, as well. Things are really starting to heat up in my garden! Yay! Lots, and lots of squash!!!!
ReplyDeleteLiisa, they were yummy :-)
ReplyDeleteEG...Waaaah, I want squash. I don't even have squash blossoms. But tomorrow I'll have lettuce for the rabbit, and snap peas, and maybe my first head of cabbage.
ReplyDeleteIt's so satisfying isn't it to see all that effort result in delicious crops on your plate!
ReplyDeleteThere's nothing like broccoli from the garden. I'm jealous of the carrots though. Mine were a bust.
ReplyDeleteCarrots! I want those. I'm occasionally nibbling one this is about 1/4" in diameter. I need them to grow.
ReplyDeleteHeskie, yes it is! It was a long winter ;-)
ReplyDeleteRibbit, I was beginning to think my carrots were a bust, all tops and no bottoms. Thankfully, they are now producing.
Daphne, I've been nibbling for a couple of weeks. It's nice to finally be biting!
One of my favorite things is wandering through the garden and picking bits of this and that and then making -- voila! -- a meal.
ReplyDeleteIt just doesn't get more fun than that.
Oh carrots! I wish mine were ready already. They look so yummy! Isn't home grown broccoli the best?
ReplyDeleteMe too, Stefaneener. I'm on my way to the garden now, I might come back with my first head of cabbage for coleslaw! It's small, but I'll bet it's tasty.
ReplyDeleteJenn, yes it is the best! I wish the cutworms hadn't taken a toll on the other seedlings.
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