This is known by a couple names: Romanesco broccoli (also known as broccolo romanesco, romanesque cauliflower, or romanesco) it is in fact a cultivar of the cauliflower. I love it for its fractal florets. It’s a magical plant with a wonderful taste, and like other brasicus, it can be planted in the early spring, handling some frost, late summer for a fall harvest or even late fall for a spring harvest… or with our warming climate, apparently a January harvest!
Awesome!!! I need to try some
Garlic grows throughout the winter as temps allow and the. Fully kicks in in the spring, with scapes to be harvested late spring before they flower, then sometime in July or August they die back and dry out, that’s when I harvest them, I sit them out for a short bit in the sun to get some moisture to dry but not so much as to split the “paper” that surrounds each clove, the. I bring them inside and let them dry some more, cut the roots off with wire snips and trim off the dead leaves and store in a cool dry place, having separated the best bulbs for replanting next fall.
Wow, Thanks! I bought the garlic originally at HomeDepot, spring of 2022. It didn't do well and died off, I guess since it was planted wrong time of year. Then it came back last spring and grew. I used cloves from the largest heads to plant my current crop of 16 plants.
Vetcyerin gel sprayIt started raining today so everything has finally melted. Now we get 2 - 3 days of steady rain but at least the temperature will be climbing UP. It will be near 60 degrees on Thursday! Hallelujah!
I've been putting off going to the feed store because I don't want to go out in the cold. I really need to go tomorrow though... One of our barn cats has a nickel-sized gaping hole in the side of his face where an abscess blew out last weekend. He's half feral so there's no way he will allow me to pick him up. I can pet him though so if I can get some kind of cream antibiotic at the feed store, I should be able to covertly rub some on his face without him noticing... I just can't hold him to do it.
They respond well to a well nourished soil. They are fairly heavy feeders. I use compost made from my coop, turn it in, then make a trench about 6” deep, add dr earth organic fertilizer pretty liberally, fill in the trench a little then press the bulbs in and cover with about 3” of soil. I’ve grown as many as 300 bulbs, LOL, they make great stocking stuffers for my relatives across the country
I don't think that would work. He'd be spooked by the spray sound and liquid squirting. It took me 2 years of patience and daily feeding to get him to trust me enough to even touch him briefly. In the past 2 weeks, he has begun to let me pet him for the first time ever... I can now give him scratches around his ears and chin. If I had a cream on my fingertips, I think I could get it around the wound in the process of petting him but he'd be freaked out by a bottle in my hands, even if it didn't spray out scary stuff...
