In My San Diego Garden and Kitchen

Amazing cauliflower from Territorial Seed Co. is amazing. Here’s their online description:

75 days. The name says it all! Amazing is the classic cauliflower with the hearty flavor and dense, crisp texture that gardeners and gourmets love. Big, vigorous, uniform plants produce brilliant white, deeply domed heads. Ample wrapping leaves provide shielding from sun and cold, so gardeners north and south can grow this American favorite!

The plants are stunning and sufficiently large to enfold the heads until near harvest, when I tie up the leaves with twine. Unfortunately, all six were ready to cut within a few days. I have friends who like cauliflower and it does keep well in the fridge.

The Graffiti cauliflower, also from Territorial Seed, has a staggered harvest this season and will likely extend over two weeks. After growing DePurple last year, I returned to Graffiti for the rich magenta hue. DePurple has some advantages in growing and cooking.

The last of the Purple Magic broccoli with the purplish stems and the first of the Golden Sweet snow peas.

Three different lettuces give texture and color interest to salads.

Some winter garden oddities: Seascape strawberries at Christmas. The best we can do for a snowman—a navel orange, tangerine and strawberry guava.

Paperwhites in pots edge the vegetable garden. Sunday’s church entry bouquet was a reconfiguration of a large bouquet given to us nine days earlier. Happy New Year!

Check the What I’m Planting Now page as I continue to plant and succession sow in the cool season garden.

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