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- Harvesting broccoli year round - that's how it works
- Start earlier and harvest longer fresh broccoli
- Proper care ensures a healthy broccoli harvest
- Cut broccoli properly and harvest several times
- Harvest broccoli galore
- Tips & Tricks
Harvesting broccoli year round - that's how it works
Whether as a creamy soup, salad or vegetables to noodles, fish and meat - broccoli from your own garden or balcony tastes delicious and is versatile. So get up and cut fresh green broccoli florets and harvest properly.
Start earlier and harvest longer fresh broccoli
Who prefers broccoli in March, can enjoy the first delicious roses from June. From mid-May to the first harvest in June sow the green cabbage directly in the field. This guarantees a fresh broccoli harvest from late summer to late October.
Broccoli thrives particularly well in a sunny, sheltered location with nutrient-rich and calcareous soil. But be careful not to grow any cabbage on the bed for the past three years. To harvest firm, green broccoli, dig up the soil thoroughly and improve the soil with enough lime, compost or manure.
Proper care ensures a healthy broccoli harvest
Once broccoli seedlings have formed four pairs of leaves, plant at intervals of 50 centimeters in the bed. Broccoli is very thirsty and needs enough water. When in the middle the first firm head is formed, in time harvest the first broccoli. Because in the summer he quickly turns yellowish or brown and loses its aroma.
Cut broccoli properly and harvest several times
Important: The buds should be ripe when harvesting but still closed. Cut off only the main shoot with flower buds including 10 cm of stalk. If the cut is placed directly on the armpit, drive on the side again small florets and it can be harvested several times. Later also the underlying, wake-up side shoots, from which further flower heads develop, reap. This prolongs the harvest by about 3 to 4 weeks.
Harvest broccoli galore
Strange but true! For each plant, recreational gardeners reap about a kilo of broccoli. So many nutritious vegetables is healthy and a great experience. Harvesting time varies from June to the end of October, depending on the variety and start of production. The purple sprouting broccoli variety can be harvested in March or April. No matter which type of broccoli - between sowing and harvest are usually about 90 days.
Tips & Tricks
Do not forget the vegetable net. This effectively protects the broccoli from cabbage fly infestation and keeps the vegetables healthy.