Broc on
I’ve always loved broccoli. In fact, as a kid when my Mom prepared broccoli for dinner, we kids would fight over it. I guess it had an impact on me as to this day I always make enough broccoli (for the two of us) to feed…12
But hey, Broccoli is oh so good for you!
- Loads of vitamin C and with a light steam you will retain a good amount of this heat sensitive vitamin
- vitamin K and beta carotene galore
- A good number of B’s including folic acid, B6, B2, B5, thiamin and niacin
- a gold mine of minerals: manganese, potassium, phosphorus, magnesium, iron, calcium and zinc
but wait there’s more…
broccoli is full of amazing phytonutrients that in lab studies block compounds that promote tumor growth, help detoxify the body of carcinogens, slow tumor growth and stimulate cell death in cancer cells. I say, “broc on!”
I tried to grow some last year but I now know that rats had chomped them down to the ground. Luck for us, our friend and fellow gardener gave us some homegrown broccoli. Wow! I was in heaven – it was the sweetest most tender broccoli I ever had. This year I had to try again…
Round one of the seedlings started this summer suffered the same fate as last year. But this time, we knew what was eating our broccoli, so…
After getting rid of the rats, We got more seedlings started and they are slowly but surely growing under our row covers. To be honest I’m not sure how many broccoli plants I have out there since some did get munched on by a second swarm of ratlings but now we think those are gone (hopefully for good.)
Tomorrow, tips on growing your own sweet tender broccoli.
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