If there was a popularity contest among vegetables that we eat, broccoli would be a contender for the top five. This wasn’t always the case. In fact, it was only in recent years that it has become so popular among those who cook and those who eat.
How this happened, we may never know, but the fact remains: we use broccoli in an extraordinarily vast variety of dishes.
How To Grow Broccoli
If you have doubts about learning how to grow broccoli yourself, simply answer this question: how often do you buy it at the store?
The answer is probably akin to: often.
Why waste so much money and energy when you can simply grow it yourself? Unlike some of its veggie cousins, learning how to grow broccoli really isn’t such a difficult job.
In the sections below, we’ll go over a simple step by step guide on how to grow broccoli and then show you a couple of hints and tips that will help you to grow the perfect crop.
How to Grow Broccoli: A Starter’s Guide
Growing broccoli is easy. Take a look at this simple guide to get you started:
- Like most other vegetables, you need to find a spot in your garden that gets plenty of direct sunlight and has good drainage to grow your broccoli.
- Sow your broccoli seeds into the ground one or two months before the last of the frosty weather.
- When the central head of the broccoli is about an inch in diameter add a bit of compost top-dressing to aid in the new plants’ nutrition.
- Your broccoli plants should be getting one to two inches of water per week.
- To avoid an infestation of cutworms, place a paper collar around each broccoli plant.
- As soon as the broccoli heads are big enough to use, pick them and eat them!
How to Grow Broccoli: Some Helpful Hints
If you want to make sure that your crop of broccoli is the best it can possibly be, take a look at these tips and tricks of the trade to help you along your way:
- Broccoli doesn’t like the heat too much. It grows the best in mild climates, where the nights stay cool and the days don’t get too much over the mid-60′s.
- Be aware that you should never plant broccoli in a place where any other broccoli or cauliflower has grown for the past four years.
- You’ll want to add plenty of compost and organic matter to the soil when you are growing broccoli. It does the best in soil that has a neutral pH.
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