I planted about 30 or 40 broccoli plants my first year of gardening, and I lived in the hot desert. I did not know it was a cool season vegetable. Come October my garden was finished producing, and I abandoned it. The brocolli plants were beautiful, but there was no brocolli on the plants. In December I revisited my garden area, and lo and behold, I HAD BROCOLLI COMING OUT MY EARS.
@@marencruickshank probably in the 50s, but sometimes it would get to freezing temps. Last year I grew some through the winter in the mountains with freezing temps and averages in the 40's. It was beautiful. I just used frost covers in freezing temperatures and super cold days.
I'm in Tennessee zone 7 and every time I tried growing broccoli for a spring crop, it would start drooping right about harvest time, and would never taste good. Found out from a local farmer that in this area, they do not like having the days grow longer, so only grow them in the fall when the days are growing shorter. I had never even HEARD of such a thing before, so tried this with a few OTHER "hard to grow" spring crops, like cabbages, cauliflower, brussels sprouts, etc. and am having wonderful fall harvesting success! The only problem is the WIND, so using a tomato cage starting then they are still small has worked wonderfully!. I hope this helps others who are having spring growing problems in our area! LOVE you guys!
I chop up leaf stalks and leaves and freeze them. Great in many dishes. I steam them a few minutes and plunge in ice water then dry and bag for freezing. I also juice some leaves and freeze the juice in cubes to add to our carrot beet juice in winter.
I’ve tried two years in a row to grow broccoli. Trying again this year and so far so good. Can’t wait to watch the video to learn more. I’ve learned all about gardening with my mom basically on our own. Except for the greenhouse class I had in high school. Each year I learn more and more and it’s so exciting!
Tried growing broccoli for the first time this year. Great harvest and you're right, it tasted a gazillion times better thanstore bought. Definitely growing it again next year.
I appreciate your teachings very much. I have been out of work due to an ankle injury and have been watching quite a few gardening videos. You and a few others are my go-to's. Your knowledge on the make up of plants is beyond any other videos. Thanks again for sharing your knowledge.
My first year with broccolli, started 6 from seed no issues until over 1foot tall. Then one day woodchuck took three, wind snapped another one at the stalk, and squirrels took a fifth. I have one plant, strongest from the beginning, scared and scraped from its troubled life, and finally sprouting broccolli, and it is getting ravaged by bugs. It's been simultaneously the easiest and hardest plant I've grown. 😅
@@Fred_Nickles I actually used tulle (petticoat fabric), and 1/2 inch pvc pipe to build a row tunnel over my broccoli, brussel sprouts and cabbage, to keep cabbage moths/worms, and other pests from my brassicas. I bought 72" x 15ft. Rolls of tulle from Walmart for a few dollars.
Wish I could show you the pictures of my broccoli harvest from this past year! It was Amazing!!! Love your videos. Our garden has truly been blessed by your help ♥️
Just rewatched this. Harvested my first small head. Will be starting new seeds next month. Will give each plant more space and hope for bigger better harvest.
Wow! Most informative video -- you didn't miss a thing. Thanks for including absolutely EVERYTHING a gardener will need to know for a successful harvest.
@@jeannecastroschmidt5818 Check the variety you are growing. Different varieties have different sizes of heads. They can vary from 2 inches to 5 and 6 inches in diameter.
This is my first year having a garden up here in Canada 🇨🇦 I bought then from a Store and transplanted them in the beginning of just tge week after the first frost after I hardened off my plants. I will be harvesting my first crop tomorrow. I heard it's best done in the morning 🥰 super excited 🥦
I'm glad to hear that good companions for broccoli are lettuce, spinach, and beets.... Those are the four vegetables I want to grow the most once I start a small garden. I was going to try separate 4x4 foot raised beds, but I was concerned the broccoli would take up too much space, so inter-cropping may be the best way for me to go.
We grew broccoli in the fall growing season this past year and it was AMAZING! I grew 12 plants and harvested broccoli through December. The head were HUGE and after the harvest, I also canned the broccoli leaves in with my collards and kale. We are going to try to grow it again in February through the early spring.
Perfect timing for this video! My last year’s attempt at broccoli is currently an unintentional cover crop in my garden covered in about 6” of snow. I started seeds two weeks ago and they’re doing okay under the grow lights. Hoping that an earlier start will help, as they clearly did not enjoy being a fall crop in zone 6b!
I'm growing broccoli for the first time this year. It is one of my favorite veggies, so I'm stoked about it. My patch is very well intercropped. I am curious about fertilization during the growing season. I enjoy your video's. Thanks much, from southern lower Michigan.
Friend I tried many times only once I got some vegetables I am happy for your way of prepare your soil I am living in linden town Guyana south America a warm country 🙏 thanks for sharing I have learned a lot
Last year was my first try at a garden in pots. I had no idea what I was doing. It cost me $700 to buy everything to start. O watched the garden channels. Mt Tomatoes died durning the summer. A lot did come up. My broccoli grew threw the cold winter. I planted collars with them and I thought that's what the broccoli was but it grew a head las week😁. Love your show and I've learned a lot, so far. 😊 Thanks
First time for broccoli for me. Long time pepper grower. I will try both seasons here. I am opening up a new bed just for broccoli. It isn't large, but it will still be inter planted to protect the broccoli and keep the soil healthy.
I learned so much! I have grown broccoli successfully once but I realize now I was just lucky. The second time it was a dud. Now I understand why and ready to give it a go again. My husband loves broccoli so he will be happy I watched this! Thank you so much - I have learned so much from you. Blessings
Thank you. I tried for the first time to grow broccoli this year. I’d say my results were C- lol. However, I am undaunted and ready to grow more ! Thanks for all the info.
Very helpful! I just realized I shouldn’t have started broccoli so late. I’m in Phoenix and I have them sprouting indoors. I guess we’ll have to keep them inside and use grow lights so we can have an actual harvest. Great info!
I bought seedlings grew 3 in containers one in the ground and gave 2 to a friend. I was quite happy with the results I still have small heads growing on the container ones after harvesting a couple of big heads from each. The one in the ground flowered and produced seeds
Last year we tried the leaves and we believe they taste as good or better than the crowns. FYI, No chemical on our plants so eating leaves with confidence.
Thank you, I would not know when to harvest anything, you always provided a lot of useful things and clarified a few questions that pop in my head. Keep it up, please and thank you again.
Perfect timing. I was debating whether to start seedlings for spring. Virginia's springs are unpredictable. They could be cool one year or heat up quickly. I'm going for late summer planting.
I threw some tomato cuttings into the ground around late May or early June before I headed back to Florida last year. Totally ignored them until my return in October. Tons of 🍅! I hadn’t taken the time to cage or trellis any but one. Took some figuring to get them up off the ground at that point. By the time I left in late November I was picking green tomatoes to ensure I got them all! Quite a surprise. Ignored them and they thrived. Babied the plants in Florida and grew a tenth of the Virginia tomatoes. Go figure!
I did not know it makes baby broccoli i plants mine in November now they have heads some big some not so big u have learned a lot every video u make i have 9 plants and lettus garlic carrots sunflower seeds just started ..I just and so happy to let u know how great my veggies are doing!!!
BC summers are perfect for broccoli. I keep getting shoots all summer until I am tired of broccoli and pull them out in September. Thanks for the info on pests.
Very interesting you lern by listen to so much information thank you we use the same technic more or less here in malta eu interesting god bless good bye
This was an awesome video! I am very new to gardening or keeping anything green alive lol. I want to grow my own food. This was a very informative video. Thank you!!
Thank you, I knew you would answer my question even though I could not ask. Just harvest my 6 broccoli plants, knew to leave the plant but could not remember how long to let the second growth stay on plant. Well you answered at the end of this video, thank you again. Really appreciate your videos and enjoy them also.
We are in East Tennessee. We planted transplants of Destiny broccoli in October. I have small, 1.5-2 inch broccoli crowns now! My 6 yr old is so proud of her broccoli. She talks to it every day and tells it to "grow big so she can eat it". Lol About how long until we can harvest big crowns so she can eat them? We have never had anything growing over the winter. Love your videos! I have learned so much!!
Love your videos. Very informative and simple to follow tips. Im a little behind in my spring planting due to lots of rain but you inspire me to looking forward to digging in. Happy Valentine's Day from 8A GA.
The excel sheet on planting times would be great if it had a Fall planting section as well. It only asks for last front date. Not first frost for planting cool weather stuff in the Fall.
I’m in zone 9B (Sacramento Valley). Broccoli starts bolting by May or so, thanks to our ridiculously hot summers. Hoping to get some going this year though!
COMPLETE GUIDE!!! Oh, hell yeah!!! Very 1st video of yours that I’ve watched & I’m very pleased with all the info that you provided. If I had more thumbs, you’d get them for sure! Excellent job! 👍👍👍👌
I've grown broccoli from starts and had great success. I just feed them with blood meal and Dr Earth vegetable fertilizer, but I've never done it from seed before this year. Thanks for the video.
Grew six plants over winter in zone 9A. Pretty much ignored them and they did well. Surprised the heck out of us! Cut our last two heads this morning - went to seed over the two days we have been gone, with all the torrential rains. Fingers crossed for some of the side shoots. We will definitely be growing more and in two zones - 9A and 7A/B. Love it homegrown fresh! Thanks for the videos!
I plant purple sprouting broccoli for over wintering; it survives the mild PNW winters and sprouts for a couple of months in the spring. It earns it's space and the time it stays in the garden by giving us an early broccoli harvest
I wish I watched this sooner! I just started my seeds with my others but didn’t realize I should have been planting right now. We’ll see how they do, but I’ll definitely go for a fall batch.
I just want to thank you for all of your knowledge. I live in NY on the Canadian border, and my growing season is so short. You have given me so many great ideas. I would love to email you when I start my growing season, as I try things but have no idea what I’m doing, lol!!! Another great video:)
Thanks for the video. Super helpful to me. This is my first time gardening and I’m learning a lot. North Dakota’s cold weather is different from the tropical areas I lived growing up, so it’s good to learn about gardening in the different climates.
In Maine. My first year trying. 3rd yr gardening. It's 7/29/23. My broccoli are around 28-30" tall and are starting to grow heads. I have 24 broc and 3 cabbage jn a screened in 4x8 bed😅.no bugs, haven't needed pesticides
I don’t know if you’re in California, but Robbie & Gary in SoCal have had great luck with it in 10b, but they didn’t get broc until the 2nd year of growth. I’ve heard this from others as well.
This is super amazing!! I needed this info! I also wanted to add that I live in Ohio and the insect I had the most trouble with eating my broccoli leaves was a wasp!
That’s some next level information!! The only time I tried to grow broccoli it got wiped out by ground hogs. Which is why I totally enclosed my garden so I think it’s time to try again!!
Happy Valentine’s Day! I tried growing broccolis last summer and got those grey bugs all over them. It really turned me off and was planning on not growing them again. But after watching this video I think I will try it this fall. 😃
My problem growing brocoli was I waited until around thanksgiving to plant it when I pulled out some tomatoes. It struggled all winter and it isn't until just now that I am seeing small heads on my cauiflower and small balls forming on my brussel sprout stocks. I'm really hoping they are ready before it is time to plant the spring plants in their place
I planted about 30 or 40 broccoli plants my first year of gardening, and I lived in the hot desert. I did not know it was a cool season vegetable. Come October my garden was finished producing, and I abandoned it. The brocolli plants were beautiful, but there was no brocolli on the plants.
In December I revisited my garden area, and lo and behold, I HAD BROCOLLI COMING OUT MY EARS.
0 to 40 plants?? Haha 😂 you could have fed a whole village
I needed to see that, awesome
I need to know how best to make broccoli have big heads
In your desert garden... what was the average temperate during December?
@@marencruickshank probably in the 50s, but sometimes it would get to freezing temps. Last year I grew some through the winter in the mountains with freezing temps and averages in the 40's. It was beautiful. I just used frost covers in freezing temperatures and super cold days.
I'm in Tennessee zone 7 and every time I tried growing broccoli for a spring crop, it would start drooping right about harvest time, and would never taste good. Found out from a local farmer that in this area, they do not like having the days grow longer, so only grow them in the fall when the days are growing shorter. I had never even HEARD of such a thing before, so tried this with a few OTHER "hard to grow" spring crops, like cabbages, cauliflower, brussels sprouts, etc. and am having wonderful fall harvesting success! The only problem is the WIND, so using a tomato cage starting then they are still small has worked wonderfully!. I hope this helps others who are having spring growing problems in our area! LOVE you guys!
Don't forget that the leaves of a broccoli plant are very nutritious also. Use them in place of lettuce, in stir-frys, in salads, etc.
I dehydrate them and add it to my 'garden greens powder'
I chop up leaf stalks and leaves and freeze them. Great in many dishes. I steam them a few minutes and plunge in ice water then dry and bag for freezing. I also juice some leaves and freeze the juice in cubes to add to our carrot beet juice in winter.
Thank you
Broccoli cheddar soup
They also taste amazing as well. 😊
From the bottom of my heart thank you for just being chill and talking like a normal person your video was great 👍
Yo for real ..good vibes everyone 👊
😂 yea 👍
My broccoli is the star of my garden this year. I don’t know what I did but I did it right haha
You got the gardener touch 😆
Same!
You either grew like 2 things or your lieing
@@michaelmcclenon6663 Why would I lie about growing broccoli. How silly.
@@DtheMan247 Took me 6 years but my garden this year is producing and its such a great feeling.
Grew my brocolli without any commercial fertilizers. They are beautiful.
Did you make your own compost?
I’ve tried two years in a row to grow broccoli. Trying again this year and so far so good. Can’t wait to watch the video to learn more. I’ve learned all about gardening with my mom basically on our own. Except for the greenhouse class I had in high school. Each year I learn more and more and it’s so exciting!
Tried growing broccoli for the first time this year. Great harvest and you're right, it tasted a gazillion times better thanstore bought. Definitely growing it again next year.
I appreciate your teachings very much. I have been out of work due to an ankle injury and have been watching quite a few gardening videos. You and a few others are my go-to's. Your knowledge on the make up of plants is beyond any other videos. Thanks again for sharing your knowledge.
My first year with broccolli, started 6 from seed no issues until over 1foot tall. Then one day woodchuck took three, wind snapped another one at the stalk, and squirrels took a fifth. I have one plant, strongest from the beginning, scared and scraped from its troubled life, and finally sprouting broccolli, and it is getting ravaged by bugs. It's been simultaneously the easiest and hardest plant I've grown. 😅
@@Fred_Nickles I actually used tulle (petticoat fabric), and 1/2 inch pvc pipe to build a row tunnel over my broccoli, brussel sprouts and cabbage, to keep cabbage moths/worms, and other pests from my brassicas. I bought 72" x 15ft. Rolls of tulle from Walmart for a few dollars.
I got your video at the perfect time for the southern hemisphere. Thanks!
Wish I could show you the pictures of my broccoli harvest from this past year! It was Amazing!!! Love your videos. Our garden has truly been blessed by your help ♥️
Join our new Facebook group (next level gardeners) you can post pics there or find me on Instagram.
Just rewatched this. Harvested my first small head. Will be starting new seeds next month. Will give each plant more space and hope for bigger better harvest.
Wow! Most informative video -- you didn't miss a thing. Thanks for including absolutely EVERYTHING a gardener will need to know for a successful harvest.
Thank you 😊
Grew fall broccoli last year and got tiny heads. Trying again this year following all your guidelines, thanks!
@@jeannecastroschmidt5818 Check the variety you are growing. Different varieties have different sizes of heads. They can vary from 2 inches to 5 and 6 inches in diameter.
I’m growing broccoli NOW! Its sprouting and I’m excited
Actually got 2 medium heads under grow lights in my basement last year. Moving outdoors this year. They are huge plants.
Great!
There’s something so satisfying about seeing the harvest.
This is my first year having a garden up here in Canada 🇨🇦 I bought then from a Store and transplanted them in the beginning of just tge week after the first frost after I hardened off my plants. I will be harvesting my first crop tomorrow. I heard it's best done in the morning 🥰 super excited 🥦
I've watched a lot of broccoli videos this past year and this is the best one!
Thanks!
I'm glad to hear that good companions for broccoli are lettuce, spinach, and beets.... Those are the four vegetables I want to grow the most once I start a small garden. I was going to try separate 4x4 foot raised beds, but I was concerned the broccoli would take up too much space, so inter-cropping may be the best way for me to go.
Thanks!
Thank you so much Leticia!!!
Happy Valentine's Day!
You too!
We grew broccoli in the fall growing season this past year and it was AMAZING! I grew 12 plants and harvested broccoli through December. The head were HUGE and after the harvest, I also canned the broccoli leaves in with my collards and kale. We are going to try to grow it again in February through the early spring.
I eat broccoli almost everyday, so I need to grow it. I’m going to try it this year.
Great!
Perfect timing for this video! My last year’s attempt at broccoli is currently an unintentional cover crop in my garden covered in about 6” of snow. I started seeds two weeks ago and they’re doing okay under the grow lights. Hoping that an earlier start will help, as they clearly did not enjoy being a fall crop in zone 6b!
I'm growing broccoli for the first time this year. It is one of my favorite veggies, so I'm stoked about it. My patch is very well intercropped. I am curious about fertilization during the growing season. I enjoy your video's. Thanks much, from southern lower Michigan.
Thank you for the video. I'm trying broccoli in my greenhouse for the first time.
This is the information I needed. Great detail. I'm just getting into gardening, and love broccoli. Thank you!
Friend I tried many times only once I got some vegetables I am happy for your way of prepare your soil I am living in linden town Guyana south America a warm country 🙏 thanks for sharing I have learned a lot
I didn't grow broccoli last year because of the space, but now with your suggestion of putting lettuce in same area, I'll try again. 😊
This is my first year with broccoli. I used a heating mat and it worked fine with cold weather plants. Even strawberries germinate on a heating pad
Last year was my first try at a garden in pots. I had no idea what I was doing. It cost me $700 to buy everything to start. O watched the garden channels. Mt Tomatoes died durning the summer. A lot did come up. My broccoli grew threw the cold winter. I planted collars with them and I thought that's what the broccoli was but it grew a head las week😁.
Love your show and I've learned a lot, so far.
😊
Thanks
Yes. but I like the ones that give you secondary small heads after the main head. And I like to pick some of the newer leaves as well.
Wow thanks for the tips! I’m trying to grow broccoli for the first time
Good luck! You can do it!
First time for broccoli for me. Long time pepper grower. I will try both seasons here. I am opening up a new bed just for broccoli. It isn't large, but it will still be inter planted to protect the broccoli and keep the soil healthy.
Omg so excited to watch this I planted seeds and hot NOTHING ....not sure what I did wrong thanks for sharing !
love your yard! Really cool!
I learned so much! I have grown broccoli successfully once but I realize now I was just lucky. The second time it was a dud. Now I understand why and ready to give it a go again. My husband loves broccoli so he will be happy I watched this! Thank you so much - I have learned so much from you. Blessings
Thank you 😊
Thank you. I tried for the first time to grow broccoli this year. I’d say my results were C- lol. However, I am undaunted and ready to grow more ! Thanks for all the info.
Great info. Got me started this cold dark morning. I got a lot of spring and summer seeds, including broccoli, planted into cells. Zone 7a
Awesome video
I like the information and we'll explain.
Thank you! I am new at gardening and just learning about frost dates. I will go check out your last video!
I have had success with broccoli in a raised bed and last year I tried a grow bag, I had a good crop👩🏽🌾👍🏽🥦 oh and Happy Valentine's day💘
Very helpful! I just realized I shouldn’t have started broccoli so late. I’m in Phoenix and I have them sprouting indoors. I guess we’ll have to keep them inside and use grow lights so we can have an actual harvest. Great info!
thanks, this was very helpful. This is my first year to attempt to grow broccoli - so far they are looking freat.
I bought seedlings grew 3 in containers one in the ground and gave 2 to a friend. I was quite happy with the results I still have small heads growing on the container ones after harvesting a couple of big heads from each. The one in the ground flowered and produced seeds
Last year we tried the leaves and we believe they taste as good or better than the crowns. FYI, No chemical on our plants so eating leaves with confidence.
Awesome 😎 thanks for the tips . I’ve just been winging it . Some come out good and some terrible. Worms are terrible and didn’t know what to do .
Thank you so much for this video. I am trying Broccoli for the first time this year.
Good luck 🙂
My broccoli is growing its size is almost 4 inch I have subscribed your channel you are so nice teacher to planting thank you
Thank you, I would not know when to harvest anything, you always provided a lot of useful things and clarified a few questions that pop in my head. Keep it up, please and thank you again.
Thank you 😊
I love the garden and the gazebo behind you! Thanks for the info, will try growing broccoli next year.
Thank you
Perfect timing. I was debating whether to start seedlings for spring. Virginia's springs are unpredictable. They could be cool one year or heat up quickly. I'm going for late summer planting.
I'm also in Virginia and am going to take the gamble and try growing some this year.
My 7A zone is Fredericksburg. Never can tell what will happen there or when for sure!
I also live in Virginia I think I’m planting in late Summer. I really don’t want to deal with pest.
I threw some tomato cuttings into the ground around late May or early June before I headed back to Florida last year. Totally ignored them until my return in October. Tons of 🍅! I hadn’t taken the time to cage or trellis any but one. Took some figuring to get them up off the ground at that point. By the time I left in late November I was picking green tomatoes to ensure I got them all! Quite a surprise. Ignored them and they thrived. Babied the plants in Florida and grew a tenth of the Virginia tomatoes. Go figure!
I will do the fertilising every 2 weeks giving them a good drink. Thanks for the tip.
Thanks for sharing. Just planted transplants from Home Depot here in Charleston, SC.
I did not know it makes baby broccoli i plants mine in November now they have heads some big some not so big u have learned a lot every video u make i have 9 plants and lettus garlic carrots sunflower seeds just started ..I just and so happy to let u know how great my veggies are doing!!!
I am so happy for you 🙂
BC summers are perfect for broccoli. I keep getting shoots all summer until I am tired of broccoli and pull them out in September. Thanks for the info on pests.
Very interesting you lern by listen to so much information thank you we use the same technic more or less here in malta eu interesting god bless good bye
Helps a LOT. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Judi
I just started my broccoli seeds in Northern Indiana this morning. This will be my first time growing broccoli, hopefully.
Good 👍🏻you can do it!
This was an awesome video! I am very new to gardening or keeping anything green alive lol. I want to grow my own food. This was a very informative video. Thank you!!
Thank you, I knew you would answer my question even though I could not ask. Just harvest my 6 broccoli plants, knew to leave the plant but could not remember how long to let the second growth stay on plant. Well you answered at the end of this video, thank you again. Really appreciate your videos and enjoy them also.
We are in East Tennessee. We planted transplants of Destiny broccoli in October. I have small, 1.5-2 inch broccoli crowns now! My 6 yr old is so proud of her broccoli. She talks to it every day and tells it to "grow big so she can eat it". Lol About how long until we can harvest big crowns so she can eat them? We have never had anything growing over the winter. Love your videos! I have learned so much!!
She talks to her broccoli! How cute! 🥰
Cute. Probably within a month depending on your weather
First time growing broccoli....good start for them abt 6-6 leaves now....I'm living in Guyana.. South America....hot country...rain and sun only....
Thank you. I have little seedlings with just 2 leaves. Can’t wait to use your info to grow some great broccoli. :) Zn 7
Thank you -thank you- thank you for that excel sheet! You just saved me so much work!!! Love your videos!
Success with broccoli king, Here in Lancaster' California.
Love your videos. Very informative and simple to follow tips. Im a little behind in my spring planting due to lots of rain but you inspire me to looking forward to digging in. Happy Valentine's Day from 8A GA.
Thank you. You too!
The excel sheet on planting times would be great if it had a Fall planting section as well. It only asks for last front date. Not first frost for planting cool weather stuff in the Fall.
I’m in zone 9B (Sacramento Valley). Broccoli starts bolting by May or so, thanks to our ridiculously hot summers. Hoping to get some going this year though!
I tried it but i had a bad year with slugs. I was going to putting a cover over them like you suggested.
Thank you so much! I’m excited to try to plant broccoli this year 😁
I've never had luck growing in CO but will give your method a try. Thanks!
If you have a UV light the cabbage grubs light up at night, best time to get them. I use bird netting to stop them landing on my veggies.
Good information and love the way it was presented with all the tips, to care for the broccoli 🥦👍❤️
COMPLETE GUIDE!!! Oh, hell yeah!!! Very 1st video of yours that I’ve watched & I’m very pleased with all the info that you provided. If I had more thumbs, you’d get them for sure! Excellent job! 👍👍👍👌
Thank you!
I've grown broccoli from starts and had great success. I just feed them with blood meal and Dr Earth vegetable fertilizer, but I've never done it from seed before this year. Thanks for the video.
Grew six plants over winter in zone 9A. Pretty much ignored them and they did well. Surprised the heck out of us! Cut our last two heads this morning - went to seed over the two days we have been gone, with all the torrential rains. Fingers crossed for some of the side shoots. We will definitely be growing more and in two zones - 9A and 7A/B. Love it homegrown fresh! Thanks for the videos!
Wow!
I plant purple sprouting broccoli for over wintering; it survives the mild PNW winters and sprouts for a couple of months in the spring. It earns it's space and the time it stays in the garden by giving us an early broccoli harvest
I wish I watched this sooner! I just started my seeds with my others but didn’t realize I should have been planting right now. We’ll see how they do, but I’ll definitely go for a fall batch.
I just want to thank you for all of your knowledge. I live in NY on the Canadian border, and my growing season is so short. You have given me so many great ideas. I would love to email you when I start my growing season, as I try things but have no idea what I’m doing, lol!!! Another great video:)
Thank you! You can join our Facebook group and tag me 🙂
Thanks for the video. Super helpful to me. This is my first time gardening and I’m learning a lot. North Dakota’s cold weather is different from the tropical areas I lived growing up, so it’s good to learn about gardening in the different climates.
In Maine. My first year trying. 3rd yr gardening. It's 7/29/23. My broccoli are around 28-30" tall and are starting to grow heads. I have 24 broc and 3 cabbage jn a screened in 4x8 bed😅.no bugs, haven't needed pesticides
Cabbage butterflies are great pollinators for cucumbers.
You can also harvest and eat the leaves. They are good cooked like you would collard or mustard greens.
i planted some plants and they are doing great. i needed the tips on when yo harvest
I am growing some now. Thanks for the tips
I had the same issue with the purple sprouting ones too , they grew so tall , but that’s all it did .
Me too. Now I know why, not long enough growing season.
I don’t know if you’re in California, but Robbie & Gary in SoCal have had great luck with it in 10b, but they didn’t get broc until the 2nd year of growth. I’ve heard this from others as well.
This is super amazing!! I needed this info! I also wanted to add that I live in Ohio and the insect I had the most trouble with eating my broccoli leaves was a wasp!
Thank you for your style of teaching. Informative and succinct.
I subscribed.
Thank you. And welcome!
Thank you this year hopefully I’ll be more successful in growing broccoli here in South Texas and I love your channel
That’s some next level information!! The only time I tried to grow broccoli it got wiped out by ground hogs. Which is why I totally enclosed my garden so I think it’s time to try again!!
I think it is time!
Happy Valentine’s Day! I tried growing broccolis last summer and got those grey bugs all over them. It really turned me off and was planning on not growing them again. But after watching this video I think I will try it this fall. 😃
You can do it!
First year trying to grow it ..we bout to see how it goes ..
Last frost date in Colorado could be late may then blazing heat in June
My problem growing brocoli was I waited until around thanksgiving to plant it when I pulled out some tomatoes. It struggled all winter and it isn't until just now that I am seeing small heads on my cauiflower and small balls forming on my brussel sprout stocks. I'm really hoping they are ready before it is time to plant the spring plants in their place
very informative. now i know florets are smaller flower groups from the shoulders.
Great tips, thanks! I’ve never had any luck getting a nice head on my broccoli. I’m going to put your tips into practice this year.
Thank you!
Great videos you really explain everything so well & love your garden, Thankyou very much for sharing with us all ,Happy Planting !
Thank you 😊
Can only grow it in late summer early fall here in Florida. As with most greens