Brussels Sprouts

[FrostyTurnip]

amyinowasso

I had my daughter plant 4 cabbage plants in my best bed.  She transplanted all four into about 5 square feet.  Well, it’s up front so I just started a swampy feed in a bucket nearby and have been feeding them like crazy.  

Turns out, one of these is Brussel sprouts.  The extended cool weather has been helpful for it.  Desperately attempting to get a photo of it onto this forum via two devices.  

Curious plant.  If cabbages are like roses, Brussel sprouts are party-goers.  It’s just a happy thing.  Likes to flip its leaves up high sometimes.  

[amyinowasso]

I hope you get some! My husband loves Brussels sprouts, we got some little ones one year. Most bolted before they made big sprouts.

[chrysanthemum]

I love Brussels sprouts, too, as long as they’re fresh. I haven’t had good success with them in Texas as it just gets too hot too fast, and my fall crops haven’t made for some reason. One year in Virginia I had beautiful stalks of Brussels Sprouts in my tiny raised beds in my suburban back yard, and a ground hog showed up and ate them all [and then proceeded to eat my beautiful zinnias for dessert]. We weren’t allowed to trap and relocate him, and we weren’t allowed to shoot him. We excluded him from living under our shed and porch by means of fencing dug eighteen inches in to the ground. Our neighbors [also gardeners] did the same, and the groundhog made the poor choice of moving up the street to where a friend of mine lived. Her husband was quite well trained in marksmanship and happened to have a bow and arrow which he was allowed to use on his own property. The groundhog stopped destroying the gardens at that point.

All of that is to say that I dream of growing good stalks of Brussels sprouts one of these years. I wish you much success with your plant, Frosty.

[FrostyTurnip]

Yeah, I imagine they didn’t do well in Texas.   I hope you get some going soon.  I never liked them until I actually bought some from the store and gently cooked them.  And those weren’t fresh.  The local food bank had an entire stalk of them in the produce section that came direct from the garden that day.  I brought them home and we loved them.