Growing Broccoli from Sowing to Harvest 🥦
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- 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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When you said 'a quick shout out' I thought you were going to name a sponsor. Instead you praised a self seeded broccoli plant and admired it's health, beauty and tenacity. Love that.
Haha, thanks Kate. 😀
Nowness. That really resonates with me. That is the therapeutic value of gardening, being in the moment. Learning to be patient. Yes you do get a sense of authenticity when separating seedlings.
Absolutely Paul. :-)
Love it. I often sit there with my seedlings and just watch them be. So peaceful. My goal is to have my office filled with hydroponics, I think instead of a massive tv some beautiful micro greens would be much more satisfying haha.
Hi Ben,
I sowed my brassicas 2 years ago and they're all still giving me plenty to harvest... This happened as my broccoli seedlings were super Leggy! This meant their first head was tiny!! But the secondary crop you mentioned want just secondary, but all year. They basically all became 'sprouting' broccoli.
Seeing as I find I don't use masses of brassicas in my food (little and often), getting big heads of broccoli, cabbage and waiting for those tight sprouts to form on my brussels wasn't the best way....so we incorporated the 'cut and come again' method to our brassica as well as our salads!!!
Brussel leaves are amazing and their yellow flowers attract the bees and also make delicious eating too; nice and sweet!
I must admit, all the brassica family's flowers are delicious and edible, so don't worry if you miss harvesting that big calebrese head before it bolts, as the pollinators love them and so do we! Still edible and still as nutritious and beautiful too.
My kids will go out purposefully looking for the sprout flowers to snack on raw as they're so sweet!
Cabbages too, if you miss harvesting that head, don't worry as it'll open up and send a 'broccoli' style flower shoot up and again....edible, beautiful and delicious and so are the leaves from that head as you can still harvest them!
I wish I could share the photos with you, they're fascinating; I have 4 types of cabbages growing in 20cm pots (they're 1m tall and thriving!), Brussels in my flower beds and both calabrese and Purple sprouting in planters and amongst my rhubarb. They all give a wonderful display and flower in different ways... I love them, can you tell...?
Kale too....eat the flowers and tender stems too...yummy winter/spring delicacy!
Ok, enough brassica beaming....bye for now,
Sammi! 🥦🥬🌻🐝
Wow - that's a fantastic brassica bonanza you have there Sammi - good work! I love the fact you let them flower too - as you say the bees love the flowers. My kale has started flowering so I'm going to harvest them like sprouting broccoli.
How do you keep critters and pests out of your brassicas?
@@lindaelert1796 Mostly, if I see any leaf damage I will hunt for caterpillars and get rid of any along with any eggs that I happen upon.
Last year I netted them but they still managed to land on some of the leaves that had pushed against the netting...so still hunted caterpillars then.
Slug beer traps get most of the slugs as being in wooden planters, the slimey things tend to hide between the soil and wood throughout the day.
The other amazing thing is that I have a lot of wasps visiting my garden.... I've sat and watched them hunt and it's incredible! They hover around my kale and cabbages, landing here and there hunting caterpillars! When they find one, they take them to my apple tree out of the way and feast before hunting again!
So, there's MY pest control tips..if you can call that walkthrough a tip 🤣😋 xx
Good luck
I so agree with you. Ppl think I'm weird when I say separating seedlings is therapeutic lol. I enjoy the entire process of seed starting, potting up, transplanting, etc.
Gardening is the best therapy!
For those in the US, green broccoli is sometimes easier as a fall crop. The pest pressure is much less, there's less chance of bolting in our hot summers, it sweetens with a frost and it's good to fill in the gaps when the warm weather veg are done or on their way out. Most garden centers don't carry seedlings later in the year so you'd need to plan to grow your own from seed.
I plant mine in spring and fall. In spring, once I transplant, I cover with mesh and I don't have pest problems. I get to harvest before it gets too hot for them to bolt.
@@gardeningwithprincess Our pest pressure is heavy and while the mesh slows them down there's still a fair amount of damage. The last two years we went from balmy to sweltering in no time. So glad you get to enjoy great success with both crops-broccoli is so good.
Oh those white demon butterflies just love cabbage, broccoli and cauliflower! They drive me crazy and I have never been so tempted to use the wrong treatment! This year I bought concrete metal ladders ($3.00ish for 10’) making hoops and will cover them with netting (tulle from Hobby Lobby). I will win, I will win against the butterflies laying their eggs on my crops this year! LOL
@@deborah820 Good luck and I'll be building a little netting house for my brassicas too! Laughed out loud at "those white demon butterflies"! :D Fits them perfectly.
@@deborah820 I used those last year-very handy. The only thing was I needed additional bracing as they wanted to bend towards one another from the pull of the netting. I pushed them in each side to the first cross brace and they bent right at the ground. Not a deal-breaker but I ended up using a bit of rebar to hold them straight. This year I will cut one to form a ridge across the top of the arches to support the fabric better as it drooped in the middle. I just have to watch the sharp edges.
You will beat the demon butterflies!
Ben! Your garden planner is amazing and worth every penny…I just started using it in January for this springs garden in houston, tx. I did a big expansion of my garden, and your software was invaluable for EASY calculations for materials, number of seeds to start, and amount of dirt to order. It also makes my planning even more fun thank you so much for offering this program to all of us,I hope you earn tons of money from it. Im so glad I found you on TH-cam, thanks for teaching me
That’s wonderful to hear Andrea, thanks so much for the feedback. The development team behind it will be thrilled to hear this too. 😃
I too enjoy potting up seedlings, gives me a sense of enormous wellbeing....as the song goes. Great video again.👍👍👍🥦🥦🥦
Yes indeed - doesn't it Steve. :-)
Don't use too much netting on your broccoli, then, so you can feed the pigeons, sometimes the sparrows too, and be happy for the rest of the day! 😉
I'm actually trying to grow broccoli for the first time this year! I planted my seeds 2 weeks ago so this video is just what I needed! Thank you!
Perfect timing!
I love when I get a new Growveg notification 🤘🏻🌱🤘🏻
Yey!
clever that bottle on the stick!
Here in NOT so sunny Spain, my broccoli plants are in my greenhouse screaming to be set free! It's been the wettest March since 1927. And now we are in a polar blast of weather. I've normally planted them by now along with my tomatoes which are also still in my greenhouse. Keep up the good work Ben.
Wow, I had no idea you guys were experiencing such a cold snap. I imagine it won't last too much longer.
@@GrowVeg warmer weather is here today. Have seen the sun at last 🤣. Just need the soil to warm up so that I can get planting.
Best broccoli growing video out there! Thanks!
Staking broccoli plants was something I learned late in the game as it helps them from falling over. I’ve also heard they grow better when staked as they don’t like being moved about by the wind.
Broccoli is one of my favourites and this year I will grow twice as many plants as last year🌻 The new bed was prepared before winter.
Need more of the broccoli to freeze for the winter months. The time of year when a cheese and broccoli soup is extra nourishing for both the body and the soul 😊
Thanks for all the growing tips! 💚
Love cheese and broccoli soup - yum!
I am so enjoying starting seedlings!! I grew up on a 40 acre produce farm as the youngest of 7 children, so I only got in on the tail end of the family business, but my father and grandfather had a open air market for over 50 years! Anyway, we always planted on the back of a 2 row planter with plants, I was never in the greenhouse with the seeds, wish I would have been but making up for it now. We are also collecting old windows to use for our own homemade greenhouse! Your lovely garden and greenhouse have given me a spark!
So pleased you're getting enthused and enjoying the seed starting process - it is just so wonderful! :-)
So pleased to see you mention sprouting broccoli. We grew the purple one annually in N W England. I actually diike the green one so much I have stopped buying it. Lovely sweet cabbage is much more to my taste.
I like both broccoli, the sprouting broccoli is so tender and I’ll eat it with anything. Big broccoli stalks are even nice eaten raw as a healthy snack
Oh my gosh I’m so getting this Growveg Garden planner for Our Queensland climate here in Oz😊
Love watching your inspirational gardening tips Ben!
Thanks so much for watching - I'm delighted you're delighted! :-)
Thanks again for the tips,for us beginners,I found a old packet of broccoli seeds dated 2014 sowed them last week and I have plenty of healthy plants,
Thanks again for the great video
That's very old seed - well done on getting them to germinate!
Yes 37 old seeds and 37 healthy plants
This will be my first year trying broccoli. Thanks for the tips!
Going to try this year. And lovely roomy greenhouse.
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Really helpful! Thank you!
I grew my broccoli in the greenhouse over winter. It grew lovely and healthy and I have been picking it for a few weeks now
Great job Carol!
The leaves are also highly nutritious. Delicious steamed.
I Love The Garden Planner!! 😊
Thanks Ben.....really helpful tips 🙏
Thank you for sharing this video 👍
This is going to be the first year I attempt growing it.
I love broccoli cut up small, raw in salads. I grate the stalk and use it in coleslaw
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What a great way to use up the stalks. :-)
My first year too!
"It's mid spring..." Yeah, and we just got a solid twelve inches of snow in one night. Migth want to hold back with sowing just yet...^^'
Oh dear - yes, if it's still icy cold maybe wait a few weeks!
Good timing as always Ben I put some brokali in the other day and will plant more this week. Thank you for sharing stay safe 👍👍🇨🇦
That's great to here - it's wonderful stuff! :-)
I potted up my broccoli seedlings today and will be starting some Sp. Broccoli soon for a later crop.
This s helpful! First time growing broccoli this year.
I've just kept searching on Google how to grow things and you've always came up! The amount of videos you have showing people how to grow things is truly amazing. I always have been just searching with your name now too! 😊
So pleased I'm able to help with your gardening Googling! :-)
Great video! Thank you!
This was a really helpful video!! Thankyou! I had no idea what I was doing with my broccoli 😆
Love this plant
Purple sprouting broccoli is my favourite. Xx
haven't tried the sprouting broccoli yet - love broccoli - had a great harvest last year
my most favourite vegetable for suree
Thank you so much for all this fantastic advise, it is much appreciated, love from Ireland
You're very welcome - and much love back at you. :-)
Thank you and Rosie
I grow broccolini, which I think is what you refer to as "sprouting broccoli". Wonderful plant that keeps on giving small stems the more you harvest them. We have harvested them well into November here in Nova Scotia. Thanks for another great video.
Cheers Mike. Broccolini isn't strictly speaking sprouting broccoli, but they are very similar it has to be said.
thank you sir very good God bless u and your family
And to you Christina. :-)
Hi Ben thanks for the video and sticks with bottles wow excellent idea😊
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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.
Great to hear you've escaped them so far - I hope you get a bug-free harvest.
Love all broccoli, must start sowing some as my purple sprouting is running out, it’s great in stir fry’s also roasted and as you said Ben I love broccoli soup .
Glad this has prompted you to get sowing Lynda. :-)
Nice. Gonna try growing this soon! Also the energy in these videos... SO inspiring! Thank you!
You're very welcome - thanks for watching.
Dude I just stumbled upon this page and I absolutely love your videos you’re doing a hell of a job 👍🏽 thanks for your help !!
Cheers Sergio, that's hugely appreciated! :-)
What a broccoli
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
It's amazing how much prices have gone up recently, so definitely worth growing more of what you can.
Have grown PSB for a couple of years but always sowed the seed to early . I never realised the difference till now. Thanks for this video Ben, it has really helped. Calabrese seedings doing well and I will now wait till May before sowing my PSB 😊
Yes, I think there's no point jumping the gun on the PSB. Glad you found the video useful. :-)
You realy do give simply but easy to follow. This kind of video about one plant is perfect. It realy dose help
Cheers John!
Love your videos, Ben!!
Thanks so much. :-)
The leaves are absolutely delicious too!
Really!?! How do you cook them?
You could just use them in the same way as kale: sautéed or stirred into stews etc.
It feels honest. I liked that.
Cheers Chris. :-)
I love broccoli although always have trouble growing it
My favorite veg
Defo prefer green broccoli 💖💖💖
hey ive watched a few of your videos and am very impressed with the timing, quality, relatability, etc. (and the info is pricelesssss)thanks for sharing%P
You are most welcome Adam. Thanks for watching. :-)
4b gardening zone in Anchorage , Ak.we do lots broccali !! And spinach, squashes. Greenhouse starts, and june 1 planting
I'm growing tenderstem broccoli this year. Never tried it before so fingers crossed! It seems to be a summer variety, even though it looks like sprouting broccoli
Thumbs up... even if I don't like broccoli...
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.
Another excellent video Ben and I will be growing Broccoli and all the green vegetables this year 😋.
Top man - we all need to eat more greens!
Great video!
I really enjoyed watching this video, I love broccoli but I must admit sprouting broccoli is my favourite, I do think it's much sweeter, have a lovely day
Regards
Russell 👍
Cheers Russell. It is my favourite too.
Thanks Ben great video as always and so informative, hopefully my broccoli will be better this year I like both types and will be sowing both this year 👍
That's fab to hear Janet. Can't beat decent homegrown broccoli. :-)
I am growing aspabroc this year. I really like it better. Multiple harvests and it's ready harvest faster.
You forgot the Romanesco Broccoli. Those are my favorite. So sweet and delicious. Mmmm.
Oh yes - definitely! :-)
I use Tulle to cover my plants and it works great! You can find it in most craft stores, Walmart and Amazon also carries it. This is my first year for growing broccoli and I planted Seeds of Change Early Green Broccoli seeds using the winter sowing method. It's a little over 7" tall now so I can transplant the 5 into a larger container. I also have Green Sprouting Calabrese seeds to plant later. I'm in zone 6b/7a.
That's wonderful - great to have found a good source of tulle. You seem to have growing broccoli down to a fine art. :-)
I planted PSB last year for the first time, I didn’t protect them very well and caterpillar’s got in, but left them over winter anyway and my plants have recovered really well and I have a nice crop now. I’m more prepared to protect them this year thanks to your advice.
Same here. I left my plants to the caterpillars and the plants did just fine. I started covering when pigeons were getting too greedy though..
I sprayed with neem oil and got rid of them. Worked quite well.
Yes - and the same with me actually. I left them to the pigeons and they got a bit shredded, yet still produced a good crop. Next time I will heed my own advice and protect them!
Thanks for all the tips/recommendations. Food for thought for next year
this was the perfect video for me with all the info I needed, growing broccoli for the first time this year and it looks ready now but I was not sure when to pick and how.
So pleased this has helped! 😀
Great ben it was my first Tim to try purple sprouting Broccoli last year and I'll definitely be doing it again this year 👍 🏴
That's great to hear. Don't forget those pest covers though!
@@GrowVeg no I have everything netted up 👍
i love all broccoli, sprouting or calabrese - all absolutely delicious! I eat broccoli or kale every day. :-)
That's very good for you! :-)
The bottle idea is awesome!! I use tulle and bamboo but noticed it can tear if it’s windy. This will help prevent that. Thank you 😊
I really like this idea too!
It's a tad unsightly but it works! :-)
Excellent video, Ben. IMO, insect netting or row covers are an absolute must for broccoli...actually any brassicas because they seem to attract all of the nasty bugs.
So true Jeff.
It's too hot in Central Texas for broccoli right now; however, I shall keep your advice on growing sprouting broccoli in mind for growing it this fall.🙂
Our highs are in the upper 70s and 80s now...lows in the upper 50s and 60s.
Wow, it's already warmed up a lot!
Thanks for this video! I prefer sprouting broccoli! :-)
My groundhogs go crazy for broccoli.
I'll never forget years ago when I started gardening and harvested broccoli florets for a spring salad and was taking a bite when I noticed cabbage worms in my salad. I was so repulsed I never grew broccoli again. Fast forward to experience, I did use the mesh Ben was speaking of on my fall kale crop and never had such beautiful Dino Kale leaves to eat with no holes. This spring I will being growing more brassicas vegetables like cabbage, broccoli and kale. Its not foolproof but the mesh is worth it.
The mesh really is worth it, and can be used season after season. Glad you've rekindled your love of brassicas.
I am trying Romaneso Broccoli this year and can hardly wait for those spirals to appear!
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 .
Sorry to hear that Andy. I hope you've found a few tips in this video. And there's more sound advice here: www.growveg.com/guides/7-tips-for-growing-outstanding-broccoli/
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
That's wonderful to hear. Thanks for watching! :-)
I've just found you😅. Binge watching your videos now. I bought net last year, excellent quality but stiff. Your net looks good, could you recommend. The bottles on the bamboo sticks.....FANTASTIC
Thanks Margaret. The netting was just sold on the roll by the metre from my local garden centre. It’s nice and soft and loose but very durable and easily cut to length. Not sure of the brand name of it though.
Winter veg for Western Australia. Only had 1 frost day last year hoping for the same this year!
just letting you know down below:
I grow purple sprouting broccoli ( first type I grew as a boy) and an F1 hybrid named TenderStem.
Remarkably, purple sprouting will grow 4 plants in a 1 foot square providing that the surrounding squares have shorter plants such as carrot, radish or even pot marigold.
TenderStem is a variety
That's a lot of purple sprouting in a square foot - wow!
hello from New Zealand!
Hello! Love NZ! :-)
Shout out to the rogue broccoli 🥦 💪
It's a trouper!
I love broccoli in general but would have to say I love long stem broccoli and PSB. It’s a shame PSB doesn’t keep its colour when boiled. Thanks for this video. Very helpful 😊
Yes, it is a bit of a shame it loses its colour like that.
I really like both. The stalks are so good in a creamy soup!
They're fab aren't they. :-)
Oh I LOVE your great idea of plastic bottles upside-down on the bamboo stakes! What a great idea. I've always just pinched the fabric on with clothes pins...the schizophrenic Chinese laundry look is rampant. hahahahaha!
Yes, it's simple but effective. :-)
Great info Ben, but just one little point. On the subject of the dreaded W.C butterfly..
If using fleece please make sure the plants DONT touch the fleece .These pesky little critters will lay eggs thru mesh... i had that this year on my sprouts.. was gobsmacked at their cunning..🤣👍👍👍
Thanks for the warning Simon! They are cunning indeed.
@@GrowVeg Cunning blimey ben.
Last year i found out just how cunning they were..
I only had a few cabbage so everyday I'd be on patrol for them little yellow eggs.. well thinking i was the smart one I'd brush them off... Job done.... so i thought.. they then started laying SINGLE eggs over the leaf... Very difficult to spot.
So over winter thought I'd put frames around my beds and cover with fleece..
Like i said as cabbages grew they touched fleece and spotted eggs....
Cunning ??.
Like a tory M.P.🤣🤣
Keep up the fantastic work. You certainly have a way of putting it across. Should be on gardeners world...👍👍👍👍👍
PSB! But i love the both. This year my pigeons got them before me ( i never had to net them for pigeons before, only for the butterfly) . So i harvest the flowering tops of my curly kale instead. They didn`t seems to bother with those and i loved them as well.
The pigeons had a good go at mine too. Next time I'll net much sooner.
With the stem you can make broccoli rice 😊
Great idea!
Broccoli defo’.
I love broccoli! I think I over did it the year before last and we didn’t grow any last year! I have a rule about using all the stuff in the freezer or we can’t sow it again! As you know you will get bumper crops or random veg each year 😅
That's a very good rule! :-)
i just stir-fry broccli and baby corn... SERV side white rice... :) x
Yum! :-)
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