pepperhead212
Executive Chef
I wouldn't think that they are kohlrabi, simply because most kohlrabi (except for the larger ones) is ready for harvest well before broccoli and cabbage. This is why I gave up on BS, even for a fall crop - it just takes way too long, and I'm impatient! That also has far more leaves than the kohlrabi that I grow.So I ordered 2 Broccoli, 2 cabbages and 2 brussel sprouts by mail. Already picked and ate the broccoli and cabbages. Im having my suspicions about the brussel sprouts. Usually they grow relatively tall stalks. These guys haven't grown high at all ( maybe a foot) and the base looks like its starting to swell a bit. You think its kohlrabi and not brussel sprouts ? I got them as small plants and they've been in the ground since April 6th.
My kohlrabi is late this year - I tried direct seeding kohlrabi this season, since it seemed warm, back in March, so I thought that I'd save the trouble of the trays. No success - only a very fw seedlings, so I planted some in my usual 72/tray pots, and transplanted them, in 3 weeks, as usual. A few weeks later, I started getting those direct seeded ones coming up! So now on one side of the dripline I have the larger ones, and on the other side, the direct seeded ones, less than half the size! Sort of a succession planting, by accident!
Glad your peas weren't bothered by that cold, bethzaring. When I used to plant spring peas, they were always the first thing out, and packets still say to plant "as soon as the ground can be worked". I can't remember the last year the ground was still hard in mid-March - the usual time to plant here, back then! And it would often get to freezing, after planting, but it didn't bother the peas I planted at all. Now, it's the early heat waves that does them in. Crazy weather.
I noticed my earliest non-cherry tomato today - June pink, up to a little over 2". Not full grown, and of course I have no idea of the ripening date, but maybe it will live up to its name! All the rest of the non-cherries have either no tomatoes yet, or just barely formed. Amazingly, I have over a half dozen cherry varieties with fruits forming on them, but not a single one on my Sunsugars - usually my first tomato.
June Pink, earliest of the larger tomato to appear, largest one over 2 inches. by pepperhead212, on Flickr