Ever wonder what broccoli left too long looks like?  Well, those little flower buds that we call a head of broccoli are really flower buds that haven’t bloomed out yet.  You can see some unopened buds;  they are green, and the flowers are yellow.

 

You will never see a broccoli like this in the grocery store, but you can eat the opened flowers.  They taste like…broccoli.

 

This is why we plant broccoli.  Because we like to eat the whole plant:  the leaves, the buds, and the flowers.

 

 

HAPPY GARDENING!!!