baby broccoli...one more time

I finally planted the broccoli seeds that, according to my gardening schedule so lovingly put together a few months ago, were to be started the first week of February. But, of course, Zoe sprouted the first week of February, so I only just now got around to the broccoli. If they grow properly it will be the first time. I think I have never given them long enough to produce their heads. Broccoli is one of my favorite vegetables, and I suppose the best stuff takes patience, of which I have little (for example Asparagus, which takes some 7 years to grow, and obviously I have'nt bothered with). At the end of last summer I tried to stick some transplants in the ground hoping for a late fall harvest and the plants grew big and leafy and healthy looking, but without broccoli heads. Those plants are still in the garden (which was never properly dug up and covered for winter) and have been frozen and covered in snow, and now they have broccoli heads. Go figure. So they need lots of time. Thus my goal of starting the seeds so early. Oh well. We'll see what happens. And now Zoe is hungry yet again, but not for broccoli. Not quite yet.