#broccoli town

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It’s been a week and we are still prepping dirt bags with recharged soil. Most of the seeds haven’t shown yet but two wee little green residents of Broccoli Town have popped through! Also shown are Basil Town, Carrot Top Town and Leek Town. Which are all doing nicely so far.

Also currently germinating chick peas but they won’t be ready until Monday at the earliest.

Sunny day :)

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Harvested all of Carrot Town today.  The carrot tops have all bolted and made such lovely flowers, which is the end of their cycle.  Cleaned and processed all the greens for use making tabouli.  Mixed the flowers into a salad.  All of the carrot tops stayed as cut, just little stumps beneath the surface, but one ambitious resident started to grow back out into a proper little carrot (as shown).  I sliced it thin and added it to the salad.  It was tasty.

Below is also all of Radish Town.  Which, as it turns out, was doomed from the start.  Apparently the time for planting radishes is late winter early spring(!) so they were never going to truly develop as root vegetables.  This is what they managed in all this time, aww.  Washed and cleaned them, sliced them thin and tossed into today’s salad.

Those big leafy radish greens I boiled and chilled and used to make dolmas.  That recipe typically calls for big floppy grape leaves to stuff with herbed rice, but these are similarly sturdy and worked just fine.  They are cooling off in the fridge for dinner later tonight.

That’s the end of Carrot Town and Radish Town.  The dirt has already been reclaimed and sorted back out to Broccoli Town which all this whole time have been stuck as wee little post-sprouts in small paper pots.  They will finally be able to sprawl out and grow with the new space and resources.

Growing stuff is the best kind of making.

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More Towns

In a rush of confidence I also started Broccoli Town, Kale Town and Daikon Town.  However I didn’t sow everything at once. From what I’ve read it’s useful to stagger sowing so everything doesn’t come in all at once when time to harvest.  So I’m breaking it up into three weekly phases.

They all should sprout within 5-7 days so we’ll see next week how it goes.