Garden Smarter, Not Harder!
Broccoli is one of those vegetables that it is always worth growing because it never comes cheap in the shops. It is surprisingly easy to grow, as long as you control the caterpillars. Both purple and green sprouting broccoli give you green broccoli spears when steamed, though the purple variety … [Read more...]
Every leaf on my broccoli was eaten when I came back to Cork from Ireland at the end of September. The leaves were just skeletons and hundreds of well-fed caterpillars crawling up the house windows to pupate, ready for next spring. I thought to myself...These plants have enormous root systems. Most … [Read more...]
