Growing broccoli: tips for summer residents
Broccoli is an extremely vitamin-rich food. It tastes similar to cauliflower, but is much more productive. Broccoli is an excellent dietary product, tasty and extremely healthy.
Growing broccoli does not require any special expenses; it is a fairly unpretentious plant. You can easily get two harvests of broccoli over the summer. Broccoli can be grown from seedlings or seeds.
Tips for summer residents on growing broccoli:
- In March, the seeds are sown in closed ground, and the resulting seedlings are planted in late April - early May. In June, broccoli inflorescences are already ripening.
- To get a second harvest, you can sow broccoli seeds directly into open ground in June.
- Broccoli can be grown in any soil, but clay soils and chernozems are preferable.
- Caring for broccoli cabbage is no more difficult than caring for regular white cabbage: watering, weeding, fertilizing.
- The optimal temperature for broccoli is from +15C to +25C, but the plant can withstand frosts down to -7C.
Seedlings are needed to obtain an early harvest, but you can start growing broccoli by simply sowing seeds in open ground. It’s just that the first harvest will not be until the end of June.
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Comments
This year I decided to try planting broccoli. For some reason I thought that this would not be easy to do. But since it is written that the plant is unpretentious, I’ll take a risk. True, I’ve already missed the deadline for planting seedlings... I’ll try it straight into the ground as soon as it gets warm enough
I still can’t decide to try planting broccoli. And I simply love to eat this vegetable. You will need to buy the seeds in advance and plant everything on time according to the instructions written in the article.
If you decide to grow broccoli, then for a good harvest, the soil for cabbage is prepared in the fall, adding lime fertilizers to the soil.