WHAT WE HAVE GROWING ON HOP FARM... AND WHAT HAPPENED TO MY BROCCOLI!!

The growing season is in full swing and there is life popping up all over the place. So much so that it's getting difficult to keep tabs on everything.

Let me show you some of the annual vegetables we have planted. In the picture above there is cabbage and some frizzy lettuce planting in between it.

This bed of onions was planted in a Ruth Stout style garden bed. There is red onions white onions and sweet yellow onions.

In this Ruth Stout garden bed there's tomatoes along the outside with eggplant planted the middle.

In this bed there is a couple of different types of peppers. There is hot banana pepper a sweet banana pepper and jalapenos.

Here we have four 4-10 foot garden beds. They're full of a Gourmet Blend of lettuces.

A head of romaine lettuce! I make sure to grow plenty of romaine lettuce. It is my wife's favorite and is great for wraps when the leaves get big enough.

Swiss chard. There's multiple different colors that we're growing. A red, orange, yellow and white stemmed Swiss chard.

This is my favorite type of kale. Curly kale. Great in salads eaten raw and also very good dehydrated.

This is my first time growing Lacinato Kale. It taste a little different than the curly kale. The texture is a little more leathery.

The spinach is doing very well. I've harvested 3 times off each plant and it still keeps producing. There's so many different ways you can use spinach in the kitchen. Of course you can eat it raw. It's also great sauteed, steamed and baked into Savory pies like a quiche.

Carrots! This bed of carrots will be ready in about 2 weeks.

In these rows there is radishes. Radish has a very strong flavor. They have a spicy Pepper zing to them. One of my favorite dishes to add radishes to is fish tacos.

WHAT HAPPENED TO MY BROCCOLI!

So it was unusually warm for my part of North Carolina last week. It got into the 90 for 3 days and the upper 80s for the days surrounding. Broccoli does not like the Heat and will bolt and go to flower when it gets too warm.

Unfortunately most of the broccoli bolted during the hot streak. I tried to do my best to keep it from bolting by watering them every couple of hours. Did not have enough shade cloth to cover all of them. Will be buying more shade cloth very soon.

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