Broccoli: Cartoon trees full of GOODNESS! What’s not to like?!
Broccoli is a powerhouse of antioxidants, vitamins and fibre. It comes in all sorts of shapes and colours and each variety can be sown and harvested at different times, meaning you will have a something tasty to pick all year round…if you know how!
Ben shares his top tips for a bumper broccoli harvest in this week’s episode. Give it a big green thumbs up!
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love your videos. Very helpful. I have tried for 3 years to start brocolli. Tried many different mediums and after the plants get their 1st true leaves they start to die. I can't figure out why. Thought soil blocking might be the answer and nope happening to those too. What am I doing wrong?
I have lost so many brassica to the dreaded moth! This year, I turned tomato cages upside-down, bent the wires down, and covered in tulle to surround each beautifully growing cabbage. I have high hopes for harvesting some non-bug-eaten cabbages this fall.
So far, so good.
My favorite veg
Hi gardener, when do you get rid of the plant?
What a broccoli
Hello Ben,
Questions, please. I'm in the zone 5 Wisconsin my broccoli has sprouted flowers couple of months back. We've had a couple of Frosty already very light ones though. Can I just leave the broccoli in and it'll come up next year or do you have to take everything out? And are the broccoli heads that are out there still good to eat? One last thing once I pull up everything that's in the same bed as the broccoli. Which is the sweet potatoes and I have a kale there. Can I plant garlic in the same bed if I leave the broccoli and possibly the kale in there?
hello from New Zealand!
Love broccoli. I've never tried sprouting broccoli. I'm getting better at broccoli. It's very hot in Utah mid-summer, so I have to stick to spring and fall.
I am interested in the net you use. It looks to me great for cabbage moth and other biggish pests but it does not seem fine enough to keep aphids out. Have done a lot of research re aphids nets, but haven't found anything suitable. I live in Tasmania, Australia. Aphids decimate my lettuces also. Would really appreciate your comment.
Hi Ben I can’t find your link for the planner
Here in Kent, my brocolli always bolts in summer, its always useless. How do I stop this from happening, when should I sow it in the greenhouse ideally so it doesn't have to grow in the heat and bolt?
thank you sir very good God bless u and your family
Heavy sigh, so sad.
Had to give up on broccoli, after many failed crops in recent years.
I'm in zone 9b; we've had several quite mild winters in a row and every broccoli i've tried, has bolted.
You forgot the Romanesco Broccoli. Those are my favorite. So sweet and delicious. Mmmm.
i love all broccoli, sprouting or calabrese – all absolutely delicious! I eat broccoli or kale every day. 🙂
I bought my calabrese broccoli seeds today (early February) and will start them indoors on the weekend. I haven't grown it before and only buy a few heads a year but I recently started to widen my food choices and was shocked to see how much supermarkets charge for stuff. My pack of seeds cost less than I'd pay for a single withered-looking head in the supermarket. Great tip about using stems in soup too! Thanks for posting
4b gardening zone in Anchorage , Ak.we do lots broccali !! And spinach, squashes. Greenhouse starts, and june 1 planting
Thank you this looks awesome and very informative. I think I prefer broccoli although sprouts also look good. Personally I will be attempting a balcony garden I think these will be the ones hanging from the railing. Ps I think this video is so good I will definitely check out your channel
tried PSB over the last 12 months and its done nothing apart from being ravaged by pests. Will take an interest in this to find out what the hell we did wrong…
I've tried many times , sowing Broccoli in winter , spring , summer , and in autumn to overwinter under cover , and in every instance once it grows and ready to create a head/sprouts , it bolts and flowers .
I'm planting in early autumn as it gets quite hot here in summer. Is it OK to plant seeds directly into the raised bed?
This s helpful! First time growing broccoli this year.
It would be nice if you could set a direction on the garden so that it knows where the sun is and if it would calculate shade from walls etc it would be a lot more useful. So far its not doing it for me as its just easier to use paper and pen and then I can also see where the shade and sun is if I draw that in myself. But it really should be includes in the planner to show where is súnny and shaded so I was a bit disaapointed ..also the last frost date for ireland is in may??? That means a lot of things would Bolt by june heat when they haven't grown fully yet. Which makes me think im going to need a tunnel for earlier heat and later shade.. it gets very hot here in summer the last few years usually around june july and a long drought too. So that explains why everything in my garden bolted flowers before making any leaves as I didnt plant out till may. Damn irelands weather.
If someone without drip irigation in their garden uses the netting, does it need to be removed for each watering?
Winter veg for Western Australia. Only had 1 frost day last year hoping for the same this year!