Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Master Gardner....NOT!

I have a garden that I tend to every year. It's not big - but is sufficient for our needs, you know. We plant the usual things, tomatoes, beans, squash, colored swiss chard, onions - you get the idea. This year I thought I'd branch out and introduce a new item to the usual - some cauliflower. I've even grown it before and it didn't turn out too bad, small - but it grew and produced. Well, I've been nurturing my little cauliflower plants all summer long and been SO excited about how big and beautiful this vegi was getting until I discovered...no fruit - or I mean, no vegetable whatsoever, no where. But --- I do have big, huge, beautiful cauliflower leaves:

4 of these babies to be exact. We have managed to find other uses for the leaves, like a fan - Cate, still loving the playhouse, grills them now and again - We use them to line baskets to hold pretty flowers - Even as plates to hold our BBQ's Just this year, we won't be eating any of this Well, we'll be eating it - just not fresh, from my garden. Maybe next year -

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