First Pick - Love Sown Garden

This morning I picked my first broccoli. One of the broccoli’s flowers had begun to open and I knew the others would be close behind so I cut the center stalk from most the plants. It would appear that someone(s) else thought the broccoli was ripe for picking too as there were score of small green worms working their way up the heads. I’m really hoping I picked them all off! I guess a little extra protein wouldn’t hurt and it beats pesticides. There was enough broccoli for maybe 2 meals, but barely that. I could have let some grow bigger, but the thought of these worms munching away while I was waiting wasn’t appetizing. It must take a lot of broccoli plants to get a decent harvest.