A new year and a new veggie discussion. Of course not much going on in Northern Gardens. But our Southern neighbors might just be out there growing veggies.

Everyone come join the vegetable discussion.

Happy New Year y'all

This morning I've planted French Breakfast radishes!

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YayDeeby!
That deep freeze melted all my cold weather crops.. but arugula might survive.

I'm afraid to even go out & look at my garden

Ok. So I got a flashlight & went to look at my garden. surprisingly some of my kale is still alive after minus 10 degree F temps

antsinmypants said: Ok. So I got a flashlight & went to look at my garden. surprisingly some of my kale is still alive after minus 10 degree F temps

Hardy stuff!!

antsinmypants said: Ok. So I got a flashlight & went to look at my garden. surprisingly some of my kale is still alive after minus 10 degree F temps

You're lucky. Mine died in 20 degrees.

Tatsoi, could have cut it the next day as it looked perfectly frozen, but now rotten

Arugula


Parsley

I've never seen a frozen garden. How awful!

That's exactly how mine looks.

i don't often see it this bad!

Vates & Feathered Frills are doing the best of all of the kale that I sowed last year.

Bought seeds for Aspobroc. It is broccoli that tastes like asparagus.
Has anyone run across it or tried it?

Been around for a long time. Was the first of the broccoli- gai lan crosses . Marketed as Broccolini. so popular in the commercial market some 10 years ago, that Aspabrock was held from the retail market until recently. Lots of similar varieties like Johnny's Happy Rich. Grown for stems with small seed heads. Sweeter and more tender than heading broccoli. and no, you would need a very good imagination to mistake it for asparagus.

I've been trying Yod Fah, which sounds similar in style. So far, I plant a little too late, don't make it rich enough, and the dang caterpillars are still here in fall to decimate it until frost. But what I did get was tender and tasted good.

Thanks for info on Aspobroc. I actually was looking for Broccolini when I came across this. Sounds like a good vege!

I've seen the Aspobroc and broccolini in the seed catalogs but have never tried it; I should grow some for my BIL, he likes the broccoli stalks better than the crowns.

Me too!

There isn't enough land around here to grow the amount of broccoli I need. I LOVE the stuff. I just can't grow it too well. I only get small florets off it and never a large head. Plus, the plants end up getting too cold.