Can we start a little garden/harvest thread here? My broccoli is

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dawnnys

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flowering, and I was just wondering if it regrows throughout the summer, or is that "it"?

My beets are almost ready at 6 weeks, but the radishes grew long but not even 1-inch in diameter after 5-6 weeks. And were they ever tough! I know I can replant some radish seeds this season, so any suggestions?

Will my jalapeno peppers grown all summer? Herbs do, I know, and snip off any flowers.

Green beans (bush) coming along a few every day. They are so tender. Red chard also doing well.

I wonder if any of this would be poisonous to a possum ;o)

 
After you cut the central broccoli head there will be smaller side shoots which will continue to

come throughout the season. Eventually they will become too small to bother with and that is when you may consider pulling the plant and putting in something else. When you say "flower" I hope you don't mean that the broccoli has spread out and the flower buds have opened. A lot of our gardeners do that, hoping the broccoli head will get larger.

Your peppers should go all summer if you keep them picked. Radishes are usually foolproof--I wonder what went wrong. My favorites are "French Breakfast" and "Cherry Belle." If the weather is hot it may be too late for them, but you can keep planting beets.

The same with the green beans, you can plant more seeds at intervals to have a continuous supply over the summer. Some folks plant the bush and the poles types at the same time since the bush ones produce earlier, giving a longer harvest season. Fresh green beans are so tasty I tend to eat them all raw before I can get around to cooking them.

(By the way, I live among the French and they do not eat radishes for breakfast.)

 
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As Joe said, you don't want your broccoli to flower. You need to start cutting, then they side shoots will come up to furnish you with more harvest.

Radishes are a very quick crop. 21 days is the average. If you let them go, the radishes start turning to woody inedible little knobs. It is a cool weather crop as well and doesn't do well in this heat. I sowed my radishes in February with our warm winter. They are now all gone.

And yes, the peppers will go all summer and get better. As Joe said, pick them so that they will need to keep fruiting.

And there are so many crops to put in during the season. How many times have I complained to my seed store: "Why do you remove the seeds in June?" I want to put in more lettuce, onions, radishes, spinach, etc. They look at me like a cow standing in a field watching a train go by.

I've learned to buy the seeds I need for the season (year) in March.

Keep planting. Your climate will support it, especially cool fall crops like chard, spinach, lettuce, radishes, etc.

 
Thanks guys. Yes, they were topped with pretty little yellow flowers and so that's why I picked

them. Snipped them off and topped the final, steamed broccoli heads. Very good, kind of nutty.

Maybe it was too warm for the radishes. Will try and plant more in August.

 
All of my garden went in late. . .

I have 30 roma tomato plants that look like a boxwood hedge; I have never grown tomatoes that looked this good. They have giant leaves, lots of flowers and my husband said he could feel small tomatoes when he wast trying to root the small rabbit out of the tomatoes.

Have three different types of corn planted: Golden Queen, Silver Queen (my fave) and popcorn. The first batch of Silver and Golden are up to my knees. I have a volunteer zucchini that is threatening to take over the garden. Also, there are three plants of a golden Kuri squash and three plants of Waltham butternut.

My runner beans are running up their pols and the Chinese long beans are just about to run up.

Still waiting on the artichokes; they look pretty spry and will start to flower soon, I hope. Need to put my pumpkins in for halloween!

Peppers, both bell and jalapeno doing great, and starting to set.

I am glad I have the garden fenced off from my chickens and all of the rabbits in my yard!

 
Picking Hungarian hot peppers, cherry tomatoes and herbs. I have tiny cucs on the vine

My greens (lettuce, mesclun nix, chard,kale, and collards) I've been picking for weeks. Brussel sprout plants are big but not forming any little cabbages yet. Lots of squash blossoms.

 
mmmm Hungarian Hot Peppers!! I never got around to doing a garden this year.

Last year, I did many containers, and the chipmunks loved them! SO, this year, just did some herbs in containers. Nothing exciting. I was uninspired. Also, the weather did not really cooperate. Seemed like it went from full down pours to stifling heat.

Sorry, not much of a progress report.

 
I picked a bunch of white lilacs this morning. does that count? nothing ready here. maybe radishes

and the farmer's market had some spinach and small white snow apple turnips. lettuce too.

 
One tip about the broccoli, make sure you soak it in salt water

before cooking it. I learned that lesson the hard way. Bleccch, steamed worms in my beautiful broccoli. It was years before I could eat it again.

 
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