One of the easiest plants to grow in the kitchen garden. Plant it, water it and watch it grow.
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4 comments:
I've never had the luck with broccoli that others have. Two years it has buttoned both at a spring and at a fall planting, though my sprouting broccoli preformed until in my high tunnel until I pulled it out in mid-Jan (it was an unusually warm here.) This year, however, is another year... and I will not plant it too early (hopefully)
Ottawa Gardener, I've heard the same thing from garden friends. Must say I think it's my neglect of them that helps grow. Literally, I plant it and watch it grow. The only thing I will do ahead of time that requires a tad bit of effort is to prep the ground with good compost. And the really kwirky part is that I grow broccoli all year long. I have some neighbors who are able to grow it regularly and others who look at us as if we're mad.
There has always been something of a shortage of good 'normal' heirloom broccoli varieties, and that may account for part of the differences you both are seeing.
I notice on the heirloom club seed list, the only two broccolis are hybrids. Probably this is what you are growing now.
I have done well with broccoli but find heirloom varieties take a lot of work for not very spectacular results. In particular the variability in the plants usually means I need quite a few plants to get only a couple that form good heads. By their nature, hybrids are not variable like this.
When growing heirloom broccoli, you will probably get a lot better results in the long run if you save your own seeds and select for plants that do well in your own garden. When doing this you will probably need a very large number of plants to properly maintain the gene pool, perhaps 100+.
If you're willing to grow something a little different Romanesco broccoli is a good heirloom variety to try. I have never grown it myself, but I understand the purple sprouting broccoli popular in the UK is also a good choice, but it too is different from normal broccoli.
Hey there, Patrick. Good points. The truth is, I didn't identify the broccoli in my photo because I have no clue which it is. Last season, I grew several varieties in a trial, all of which were new heirlooms for me. One of them I absolutely hated (bolted quickly and although tender, the heads formed much like the Italian varieties but weren't as flavorful) and the other two we ate from for months, by merely cutting the heads a series of times. Well, one of the plants ended up going to seed in one of our wacky weather spells and by that time, because the plants had been in the ground for so long, I couldn't actually read the label. I didn't keep the broccoli or the seed but apparently some of the rogue seed landed throughout the garden and ended up sprouting and that's what you're seeing in the photo. All that germinated, I merely transplanted (I try not to waste any of thing that is strong enough to survive on its own.
Now, on the Heirloom Club list is a small selection of seeds where we have sufficient quantity to be able to share with others. It is not, however, indicative of our entire collection. We currently have more than 50 broccoli varieties, of which about 17 are hybrids. We do a great deal of importing and the seed packets that come from other countries are generally massive by comparison. So, we readily make those extras of the new packets available since we try to rotate the garden regularly with new items.
Glad to see there's so much interest in the broccoli. Frankly, there are several heirlooms I'd recommend and I wish were available and our list. Each and every time we've attempted to save the seeds from heirloom broccoli, the squirrels have DEVOURED the seeds!
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