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Old 02-04-2015, 01:44 PM posted to rec.gardens.edible
George Shirley[_3_] George Shirley[_3_] is offline
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Default Broccolli flowers

On 4/1/2015 8:37 PM, Fran Farmer wrote:
On 1/04/2015 11:18 PM, wawwiz wrote:
Well for some reason all my plants went from 1" heads right to
flowers, question: Are the stalks and flowers (yellow things) edible?
Leaves are shot, but I have long stems and yellow flowers.


I make curried cream of Broccoli soup with the stems which are not much
use for any other thing other than giving to the rabbits or chooks. When
the offspring studied at University and suffered the usual student
poverty, a good free feed could be had by asking the veg section staff
of the supermarket for the broccoli stems "to feed to my rabbit" and
then using my recipe to transform said stems into something delicious.

My wife will eat the stems that way too, I prefer to eat the rabbit.

A nice morning here for gardeners, a light fog is watering the plants
and, supposedly, the sun will be out and get us warm a little later this
morning.