Brocolli Bugs:

I harvested my head of brocolli today.  A bit late.  It had started to flower.  Oh well, it tasted great.  Here are some pictures of it.  You can see the flower starting to form on the right side of it.  The bush was enormous!

Below you can see the size of it, with respect to my hand.  And you can see the flower a bit more.  The tips for harvesting it are to watch for the individual floret size -- when the outer ones get to the size of a match head, it's time.  I think mine were a bit big.  Also the head should be tight and dark green (no hints of yellow).

So I cut it up and started boiling it (it smelled great).  As I was boiling it I noticed what looked like a green caterpillar floating in the water.  I tossed the big guy out, kept boiling, and then drained the broccoli to eat.  It tasted great!  But as my husband was eating the big floret he found another little caterpillar....  and then another...  bad news.  I think those caterpillars REALLY like broccoli...  Here's a picture of the little guys in the bowl, they are pretty small.

Tomorrow I'm going to talk about my new raised planter bed!  I spent this evening building and designing it!