Happy Fall. So blessed. I feel blessed that I was able to have one harvest of broccoli before the freeze killed it. You see, it was so warm this year that when the first freeze showed up, it killed the broccoli. It stunted it really bad at least. Green Magic broccoli. Good stuff. It probably would have made it if I had covered it. The thing is…I have never covered broccoli before. It usually makes it through freezing weather just fine. But from what I have heard/read/watched, the reason it got hurt so bad by the freeze is because it did not have time to harden off. Normally the weather gets cold in dribs and drabs so that the plant hardens off before a big freeze. It was 80 degrees the same week as the first freeze. No time to “harden off”. Nutty weather!

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Yum, so we did get one harvest before the first freeze. Now for the cold, hard, truth about pesticide free gardening…Worms! They don’t hurt you even if you eat them. But, if you soak your broccoli in salt water, the worms will detach and float away from the broccoli. Sorry little fellas.

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