Growing Broccoli in your Vegetable Garden

Broccoli is a delicious, green vegetable that has a great deal of wonderful health benefits. It is also very versatile and is used in a number of wonderful dishes. Broccoli prefers slightly cooler, mild weather, so take this into consideration when deciding whether or not you’d like to grow it in your garden. Broccoli prefers well-drained soil and an area with good circulation. Be sure to choose a place in your garden that can provide both. Many people may not know that broccoli can grow up to three feet tall! Keep this in mind when planting as well so that it does not end up giving other plants in your garden too much shade and block their sunlight. Broccoli likes a lot of compost and fertilizer, so prep your soil accordingly to ensure healthy, full growth.

You can get a head start on your broccoli crop by first planting the broccoli seeds indoors about 6-8 weeks before the end of the season frost. Once the plants grow leaves and the frost has disappeared, plant them in your vegetable garden about 18 inches apart, since broccoli is a wide and full growing plant. Once the plant shows signs of growing about a one-inch head add a top layer of compost or mulch about one inch thick. This particular vegetable does best in moist soil, so be sure to water your plants at least once per week if there has been little to no rainfall. They usually prefer about one to two inches of water. Mulch is excellent for preventing rot and also for deterring weed growth. It is recommended that you add a paper collar around your plants to keep worms from attacking its leaves, as well as other pests. When you’re ready to harvest, go ahead and remove the broccoli when you feel that the heads are big enough to use and eat. Make sure you remove them before you see any yellow, which means that they are beginning to grow buds and they may at that point be overripe.

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