baymule
Garden Master
I plant 20 - 30 broccoli plants every fall and never freeze any of it. We eat it all! glad you finally got a few heads of broccoli Monty!
Broccoli
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digitS'
Garden Master
We have talked about this before, Bay'!
I guess I'm just substituting the mostly Asian greens that I have during half the year with broccoli in the winter
. But, unless I buy half the stock in a utility company, I've got to buy the broccoli. 
Oh, to have fresh veggies, year around!
I bet we could almost keep up with a broccoli harvest like you have, Bay'. (I think DW & I, MontyJ & Dew should just pack up and move to Texas for 6 months out of the year.)
Steve
I guess I'm just substituting the mostly Asian greens that I have during half the year with broccoli in the winter
. But, unless I buy half the stock in a utility company, I've got to buy the broccoli. Oh, to have fresh veggies, year around!I bet we could almost keep up with a broccoli harvest like you have, Bay'. (I think DW & I, MontyJ & Dew should just pack up and move to Texas for 6 months out of the year
.)Steve
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MontyJ
Deeply Rooted
Don't tempt me Steve. I have come close to moving back home a few times! Where BBQ means BEEF, not pork. :/digitS' said:(I think DW & I, MontyJ & Dew should just pack up and move to Texas for 6 months out of the year
Steve
baymule
Garden Master
Ya'll come on down!! We got lots of room down here!!MontyJ said:Don't tempt me Steve. I have come close to moving back home a few times! Where BBQ means BEEF, not pork. :/digitS' said:(I think DW & I, MontyJ & Dew should just pack up and move to Texas for 6 months out of the year
Steve
dewdropsinwv
Garden Addicted
When we first moved back up here in 1993 Monty told me he was going to starve to death because you cant find a good rack of beef ribs, or brisket.
digitS'
Garden Master
I'm not gonna starve from lack of broccoli but there is none in my garden this year.
It's the seed companies fault :/! Not one that I order from carry Packman in 2013. This was what I experienced when Green Comet became difficult to find. No backup plan! That's not gonna happen again.
I went to Premium Crop for a few years but the 65 days-to-maturity is just about a week or so too long most years. The plant starts might go out in April but they were just getting wound up for a good harvest when 4th of July and hot, dry weather hits. So, Packman, at 52 days, saved my broccoli growing.
I don't know why I thought I could get away with a 65 day broccoli but I gave it a 2 or 3 seasons try. Green Comet was much earlier and an All-America selection that nearly dropped out of sight about 15 years ago (but, that's another story). Now, Packman is drifting off the screen . . . Why is it that there is so much change in the world of broccoli, of all things?
I-just-need-to-go-with-something-55-&under. There's one called Small Miracle, Blue Wind seems widely available, Burpee even has one called Green Giant! I might even go back to growing De Cicco.
Steve
It's the seed companies fault :/! Not one that I order from carry Packman in 2013. This was what I experienced when Green Comet became difficult to find. No backup plan! That's not gonna happen again.
I went to Premium Crop for a few years but the 65 days-to-maturity is just about a week or so too long most years. The plant starts might go out in April but they were just getting wound up for a good harvest when 4th of July and hot, dry weather hits. So, Packman, at 52 days, saved my broccoli growing.
I don't know why I thought I could get away with a 65 day broccoli but I gave it a 2 or 3 seasons try. Green Comet was much earlier and an All-America selection that nearly dropped out of sight about 15 years ago (but, that's another story). Now, Packman is drifting off the screen . . . Why is it that there is so much change in the world of broccoli, of all things?
I-just-need-to-go-with-something-55-&under. There's one called Small Miracle, Blue Wind seems widely available, Burpee even has one called Green Giant! I might even go back to growing De Cicco.
Steve
baymule
Garden Master
NO BRISKET???dewdropsinwv said:
Don't ya'll have cows there??? 
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MontyJ
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Bay, when we first moved here I searched every supermarket in the area. All I could find was corned beef brisket 
. So i went to a slaughter house over in Pa. The fella behind the counter showed me this pitiful little 3 pound brisket. I told him I didn't want one off a calf! I want a real brisket, you know 8 pounds or so. He proceeded to tell me that brisket doesn't get that big! Uh, what? Mister, back home I can get 8 pound brisket all day long at any grocery store. Don't tell me they don't get that big! Where's home, he asks. Texas I says. He said that's the reason. Then began to explain to me that Longhorns have much larger briskets than herefords, which is what they butcher there. I just shook my head and left, knowing two things. 1. I was going to starve to death up here. 2. That shop didn't know how to cut up a steer.
A few years ago Walmart, of all places, began carrying brisket. All they carry is select, but at least it's real brisket.
Here is something you'll find funny Bay. We went back to Corpus Christi a few years ago to visit my brother. I brought back some 100 year old mesquite fence posts (another pretty funny story). Then I went to walmart and got me a big brisket and invited some friends and family over for some real Texas BBQ. Well, the brisket was excellent and everyone raved. A couple of weeks later, we were invited to Dew's brothers house for a BBQ. He is one of those people who will try to copy and outdo everyone else, you probably know the type. Anyway, he was cooking...what else? Brisket. I looked in the makeshift cooker he threw together and knew right away something was wrong. There were two briskets in there, both very, very small, and the color was way off.
I snuck a little sample and confirmed my suspicions. I asked him, where did you get that brisket?? He said, "I couldn't find a big one like you had so I got two small ones at Kroger." My reply:
"Man, you don't use corned beef brisket for this!!!
. So i went to a slaughter house over in Pa. The fella behind the counter showed me this pitiful little 3 pound brisket. I told him I didn't want one off a calf! I want a real brisket, you know 8 pounds or so. He proceeded to tell me that brisket doesn't get that big! Uh, what? Mister, back home I can get 8 pound brisket all day long at any grocery store. Don't tell me they don't get that big! Where's home, he asks. Texas I says. He said that's the reason. Then began to explain to me that Longhorns have much larger briskets than herefords, which is what they butcher there. I just shook my head and left, knowing two things. 1. I was going to starve to death up here. 2. That shop didn't know how to cut up a steer.A few years ago Walmart, of all places, began carrying brisket. All they carry is select, but at least it's real brisket.
Here is something you'll find funny Bay. We went back to Corpus Christi a few years ago to visit my brother. I brought back some 100 year old mesquite fence posts (another pretty funny story). Then I went to walmart and got me a big brisket and invited some friends and family over for some real Texas BBQ. Well, the brisket was excellent and everyone raved. A couple of weeks later, we were invited to Dew's brothers house for a BBQ. He is one of those people who will try to copy and outdo everyone else, you probably know the type. Anyway, he was cooking...what else? Brisket. I looked in the makeshift cooker he threw together and knew right away something was wrong. There were two briskets in there, both very, very small, and the color was way off.
I snuck a little sample and confirmed my suspicions. I asked him, where did you get that brisket?? He said, "I couldn't find a big one like you had so I got two small ones at Kroger." My reply:
"Man, you don't use corned beef brisket for this!!!
