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Everest Broccoli

No scientific name recorded

A variety of broccoli

How to sow everest broccoli: Sow seeds indoors and transplant outside

Sun requirement for everest broccoli: Plant in Partial Sun

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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Everest broccoli facts

Lifespan

Annual living and reproducing in a single year or less

Spread

15cm

Growing Degree Days

What are growing degree days?

A plant grows with warmth, not with days. A growing degree day is one day's worth of useful warmth: how many degrees the day's average temperature is above the lowest temperature the crop grows at. Add them up from planting and you know how far along the crop is, whatever the calendar says.

Say that lowest temperature is 10°C. A day averaging 17°C gives 7 growing degree days. A day averaging 8°C gives none, as it is too cold for the crop to grow. That is why the same lettuce takes about 50 days in a summer and 90 in an autumn: it needs the same total warmth either way.

Everest broccoli needs about 83 growing degree days.

For everest broccoli, the FAO EcoCrop database gives a lowest growing temperature of 5°C and a shortest growing cycle of 60 days at its best temperature, about 750 growing degree days to a first harvest.

Where you've told us where your garden is, we use this and the weather there to predict when your everest broccoli will be ready to harvest. We don't use it for how long a plant lives or when it finishes: we go by what members have logged for that.