Broccoli is a healthy vegetable that is versatile in cooking. Broccoli is easy to grow right in your garden.
Growing Rules
Broccoli needs cool air and soil to grow. Therefore, the plant tolerates cold well and does not really like heat.
Plant a vegetable in the spring to get a harvest in the summer.
If your climate is hot, choose early-ripening broccoli varieties so that they have time to grow before the heat sets in.
Determine the planting time depending on the last frost in the spring.
Typically, broccoli is first grown from seed in containers and then seedlings are planted outdoors 2 weeks before the last frost in the spring.
Seeds should be sown 6-8 weeks before the last frost.
4-6 weeks after sowing the seeds, the plant will be ready for transplanting into open ground.
In addition, you can always purchase ready-made seedlings in special gardening stores.
Choose a place in the garden for broccoli that will receive direct sun.
The soil should be nutritious and well drained.
As a fertilizer, you can use products with the addition of nitrogen during the planting of the vegetable and during the growing season.
Plant seedlings 18 inches apart. After this, broccoli must be watered abundantly.
During plant establishment and growth, keep the soil moist and feed the vegetable after 3 weeks from transplanting.
