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broccoli Broccoli Brassica oleracea

How to sow broccoli: Sow seeds indoors and transplant outside

Sun requirement for broccoli: Plant in Full Sun

Broccoli has been planted 85 times by Growstuff members.

Broccoli has large flower heads known as "crowns" that are green to blue-green in color, grouped tightly together atop a thick stem, and surrounded by leaves. Broccoli resembles cauliflower, a different cultivar in its species. It thrives in cool weather.

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Predictions

Annual

living and reproducing in a single year or less

Median lifespan

17 weeks

First harvest expected

16 weeks after planting

Last harvest expected

19 weeks after planting

Height

75cm

Spread

60cm

Row Spacing

40cm

Companions

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Photos

Broccoli crops

Broccoli plantings

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Bed 11
Bed 11
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Broccoli harvests

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Brocoli for dinner
Brocoli for dinner
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Sunniness

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Harvested for

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Varieties

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Romanesco broccoli

Brassica oleracea Botrytis group
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sprouting broccoli summer purple

Brassica oleracea italica

Crop Map

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What people are saying about broccoli

pandemic baking - use for those eggshells

by shiny,

There's so much baking going on here, stuck at home under the nationwide pandemic lockdown – and when we can get eggs we end up with many eggshells. These can be crushed and placed around the base of brassica like cabbage and broccoli. Snails and slugs don't …

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The nets are up

by shiny,

Due to the pandemic lockdown, I can't go to the hardware store to get things. I've been in semi-isolation since the start of march, and we've been in nationwide lockdown since last week.

I needed to set up the nets to keep out the white butterfly. I've had to be creative and i've had to recycl…

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Summer broccoli doesn't work

by shiny,

I planted some broccoli at the start of spring.. I grew fast, made long stems and quickly turned into yellow flowers. I conclude the first spring summer months aren't good for brocoli.

So I've got some new seedlings in now, in the heat of summer, hoping that by the time i pu…

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Some of features id like

by shiny,

I like to automate the calculations, analysis, and plain old remembering what has happened in the garden.

Some of the challenges in my garden is knowing when it's too late to planting something, if it will cope with the weather conditions here, and working out what is killing the [tomato](/cr…

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Transplant day!

by inkstone,

I originally wanted to do this yesterday but it rained in the morning so that kinda put a damper on things.

So I did it all today instead! A bunch of the seeds I wintersowed in the milk jugs and soda bottles were getting crowded so it was time to move them to their bigger (permanent) container…

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