Brussels Sprouts!

[7rider]

I often serve brussel sprouts when I have guests for dinner.
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They are soooooo yummy!

Hmmmm.....
And how do you prepare your guests??
jk

[smilingcat]

My brussel sprouts arn't making any brussel sprouts. leaves keep opening up and no knobby sprouts are forming. And all the leaves have gigaenormous holes from the snails. I'm not about to use pesticide in my yard.

Is the weather too warm or is it too much sun? what am I doing wrong??

smilingcat

[Grog]

I looked for brussel sprouts yesterday, to no avail.

We had leek braised in orange and ginger juice.

[msincredible]

I love mine just roasted with a bit of olive oil.

[snapdragen]

My brussel sprouts arn't making any brussel sprouts. leaves keep opening up and no knobby sprouts are forming. And all the leaves have gigaenormous holes from the snails. I'm not about to use pesticide in my yard.

I know nothing about growing 'sprouts, but I do have a snail suggestion. Snails hate copper, most garden shops sell copper barriers that you can put around your plants. As long as there are no leaves reaching over the barrier the snails cannot get to your plants.

[malkin]

Offer the snails a beer!

[Dianyla]

Ooh, thanks to this thread, I decided to try brussel sprouts again. I roasted them with oil, salt, and pepper, and then deglazed the pan with balsamic vinegar. They were so tasty!

But why didn't anybody warn me about the gaseous effects! I've been ripping 'em off all day and it's really quite horrible.

[Susan Otcenas]

But why didn't anybody warn me about the gaseous effects!

Interesting that you should mention this.... Being new to brussels sprouts myself, I had no idea.... But I've made them 3 times now, with the same results each time. GasEx seems to help. But I wonder if there's a way to prepare them that might mitigate this effect.

[Eden]

They are a brassica - close relative of cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower... I'm not sure there's much that can be done about their resultant emissions (but remember those smelly chemicals are part of what makes them very healthy to eat!). Does anyone know if Beano has any effect?