Bolting Brassicas, Batman!
Well, chalk up another failure for me.
Last year, I planted my tomatoes in May. Yes, in Texas. Yes, I’m an idiot. I did learn my lesson, and after nursing them through the summer, I got a decent harvest up until the first frost. And this year, I started planning and putting the garden together in January and thought I was really ahead of the curve!
Although — not so much. See, where I am in south-central Texas, despite being in USDA Zone 8 (The same as the Portland climate I moved from), all of the cabbages (brassica olera, including broccoli, cauilflower, and kohlrabi) are winter crops. Yeah, winter. Most people who know what they’re doing will put them in the ground in December or January. I didn’t put mine in the ground until February.
So while the rest of my neighbors and the new garden buddies I’ve met via various forums are enjoying garden-fresh steamed broccoli, I’m watching the teeeeeeny tiny little heads on my broccoli form and hoping that they don’t bolt straight to flower. Two already have, and I’ve ended up pulling them from the garden.
Now if ones next to each other would just go ahead and bolt so that I can amend that part of the garden and plant one of the patiently waiting container plants in it’s place, I’d be very, very happy. *taps foot impatiently*
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