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| farmmilkmama |
Posted - Jun 21 2010 : 05:45:03 AM
I've only tried to grow broccoli one other time, a few years ago at my old house. We bought it as plants and about a week later, all the tops went to yellow flowers. Someone told me the plants got too hot and that's why they flowered.
My mom decided this year she wanted to try broccoli, so we bought plants again but a couple days ago they went to the yellow flowers. It has NOT been hot here, but we have had a ton of rain. Also, they looked nothing like broccoli at the store - you know, a fat stalk with tons of florets. These were spindly with one little floret on top. I usually don't have issues growing veggies, but this whole broccoli thing escapes me. Tips please!
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| Jennifer Q. |
Posted - Jun 22 2010 : 8:18:53 PM
That is neat to know! I am trying to grow broccoli this year, my first year with this crop! At least I know that if I miss the broccoli I can still eat the flowers! (we keep adding pots in front of our window and keep diversifying our crops each year with the added room!) |
| farmmilkmama |
Posted - Jun 22 2010 : 7:51:51 PM
How awesome that you can eat the flowers! I only wish I would have known that before my hubby went off and cut all the heads off!!
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| vegetarian farmer |
Posted - Jun 22 2010 : 1:10:49 PM
Jenny, I can eat the flowers! Wow you learn something everyday. I am off to the garden to eat mine that went to seed.
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| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Jun 22 2010 : 12:52:05 PM
Yep...cool weather is the trick for broccoli for sure. I always grow quite a bit. Shade cloth suspended over the crop helps sometimes, or planting them in the shadiest bit of your garden, but the heat will get them for sure. The yellow flowers are good in salad. (I always have some that bolt like that too..can't resist planting them as many times as I can! We had a late winter this year so mine are still not ready to harvest ..I have hope that with our hot days lately they will be okay. They have had a very cool start)
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| farmmilkmama |
Posted - Jun 21 2010 : 2:27:03 PM
Thanks for the information. I figured we had to be doing something wrong!! :)
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| willowtreecreek |
Posted - Jun 21 2010 : 2:10:39 PM
Broccoli is more of a cool weather crop that doesnt like it when temps get much above 60 degrees. You should sow seeds in trays around mid summer and plant the seedlings in the soil about 6 weeks later. It will then be another 8-12 weeks before they are ready to harvest so plan according to your frost dates. If you want spring broccoli you need to again start the seeds indoors and plant as soon as any danger of a hard frost has past. They can handle a mild freeze but you may want to cover them with a row cover.
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