Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Oops

Today while weeding, I accidentally pulled an onion. As you can see, it's not quite ready but very cute.

Itty bitty onion

Also, my broccoli started blooming already! Apparently that's bad. I thought it meant they were getting ready to produce bigger florets. But unfortunately it means they're getting ready to go to seed and aren't edible. So I painfully cut the tops just above new florets that are growing. Too bad too 'cause I love broccoli! If I had known, I would have cut and ate them long ago. Hopefully not all is lost (like a family friend told us). If so, I'll just pull them up and move my brussel sprouts around. I learned they may need more space then I gave them. Next year I'll not only pay attention to the recommended seed spacing but I'll also eat my broccoli before it's too late.

Broccoli flowers

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

You can't have your broccoli and eat it too...

Lisa said...

Yep, that broccoli has bolted. But the tiny onion sure is cute.

Kath said...

I'm not a fan of broccoli but they have pretty flowers!