Pulling the Kohlrabi
Well, it’s regularly hitting 90 degrees, and all of my other Brassicas have gone bitter. I guess it was just time to do away with the kohlrabi. The first of the Early White Vienna Kohlrabi was harvested, but the stuff I seeded outdoors and had been growing since early March was getting eaten alive by a variety of bugs that only seemed to go after the tender middle shoots — scarring it, and stunting all of the further growth in the bulb.
Some kolhrabi plants don’t seem to bulb in the first place. My mom told me about this and I was expecting it. some of them create kind of a ‘vertical’ bulb. They tasted kind of off, a bit more bitter, but still edible.
But this late in the season? It’s just bugfood. Ants, which I’ve been unsuccessful controlling organically to date, have been (literally) farming the aphids. And I don’t need any EXTRA bugs.
Yep, Kohlrabi is a fall crop here in Texas. Just like the packet said!
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