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Posted: Aug/09/2008 6:16 PM PST
Spelled wrong but can anyone tell me about growing brocili from seed? |
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Posted: Aug/10/2008 10:49 AM PST
Broccoli matures during cool weather. Broccoli grows best in fall. Plant the seeds about 90 days before your first chance of frost. You should have a great crop. |
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Posted: Aug/10/2008 12:21 PM PST
Thanks for the tip Witt.! |
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Posted: Aug/11/2008 5:18 PM PST
Thanks for the help I will get those in the ground now. |
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Posted: Sep/07/2008 1:41 PM PST
We northerners are rather amused by this talk of starting seeds...especially broccoli...in August! You guys are lucky in some ways. Broccoli takes forever from seeds, but I imagine it's impossible to find plants this time of year. I usually just buy seedlings in the spring. good luck w/the fall crop. |
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Posted: Sep/08/2008 10:28 AM PST
The tough thing about Spring broccoli is that its seeds require lots of heat and moisture to germinate - a rare combination in the early part of the year. If you want to do Spring broccoli from seed, I recommend putting the seed directly into HOT tap water, and let it stand for a day. Then put them in between the folds of a wet napkin, and keep the napkin warm and wet. They will sprout in three days. Gar-on-teed. I can't do Spring broccoli here because the seedlings don't do well in cold, clammy soil - which is what we have until May - and then it gets too hot in June and they bolt. But it's the perfect Fall crop. They sprout quickly in the hot Summer soil as long as the top 1/2 inch is kept moist. They grow well in the August-September heat and then head up nicely in the cool of October. |
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Posted: Sep/09/2008 7:02 AM PST
Up here, I get beautiful florets right up until the first severe frost. I've already brushed snow off of the plants, and picked the new florets. Hardy, to say the least. |
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