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Growing Broccoli To Fill The Spring Veg Gap

March 20th, 2008 Subscribe To Our Feed

Growing broccoli is well worth the wait of a long growing season. Late winter and early spring is a time of year when harvesting vegetables from your veg patch becomes a bit of a rare occurance. So several plants of purple sprouting broccoli are very welcome as you should be able to harvest these colourful and delicious spears of purple florets over several weeks, usually from about the end of January for later varieties.

Another advantage of growing broccoli is the fact that if you can get past the late summer catterpillar attack then apart from staking these plants so they don`t fall over, there is not a lot one needs to do except wait.

Sow your seeds into a seed bed or in trays indoors (greenhouse or window sill) during March/April time and once big enough to handle prick out the seedlings grown in trays into 3″ pots of potting compost. Transplant the growing broccoli when they are about 8-10″ tall.

Seeds sown into a seed bed leave to grow until about 8-10″ tall.

Once at the approximate height to transplant then move them to their permanent bed with as much of the soil still around the roots that is possible. This will not be a problem with pot grown broccoli.

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Growing Broccoli