How to grow broccoli?
Broccoli cabbage is a useful product thatyou can grow your own hands ordinary dacha. Today we will tell you how to grow broccoli in the garden, starting with planting, leaving, and finishing with harvesting.
Can I grow broccoli
Not an amazing question, since broccoli is a vegetableMediterranean, and, therefore, there is an idea of whether it suits our climate. We will answer without a doubt: the climate of the middle zone of Russia will please this plant and help to give a good harvest. The optimal conditions will be: air temperature +16 - +25 degrees and high humidity. By the way, an adult broccoli plant will withstand a temperature drop of -10 degrees. Soil should also be well moistened, but more on this in more detail. Calmly grow broccoli, starting in May, until late autumn. For a better harvest, plant the broccoli on a sunny place.
How to plant cabbage broccoli
If you plant broccoli in the former placeother crops, then the best choice will be the soil where previously harvested beans, peas and pumpkin cultures. In a limited space, you can plant broccoli with other cabbage, carrots, beets, celery, lettuce, onions and parsley.
When planning the planting of broccoli began, the summer resident just has time to prepare the soil for May. It's just wonderful! So, make humus or compost for 4-5 kg per 1 square meter. and dig it up.
How to grow broccoli seedlings
Seedbed method. Seeds can be sown on seedlings from late March to mid-summer. Use a mixture of sand, peat, humus and garden soil. All this should be in equal parts. Only after 40 days you can plant the seedlings in a permanent place, there will already be about 5 leaves. Note that you need to plant with a distance of 40 cm, and between the rows will be 60 cm.
Make wells and in each place a gram of 5 mineral fertilizer and half a glass of ash. Mix all this with the soil and plant a small plant there. Pour water on the ground, compact it.
Sowing seeds in the ground
How to grow cabbage broccoli easier - in a nonsense way. You can sow seeds from the very beginning of May. It is necessary to thin the shoots, and leave the distance between the plants at 40 cm.
How to care for broccoli
The main care is watering and weeding in processnecessity. Watering is increased when the heads of broccoli begin to form. Note that it would be good to feed the mullein solution (1:10) 1.5 weeks after planting the seedlings. When the head is tied, the time of the second feeding takes place. Use a liter of solution per plant.
Vintage broccoli
How to grow broccoli, you already know, and nowit's time to talk about harvesting. By the middle of August you can already enjoy the fruits of your labor. Collect the broccoli before opening the buds. Cut the broccoli heads with a part of the stem. Store broccoli in the refrigerator for a week, as after the cabbage begins to lose its taste and useful properties.
In the autumn, do not forget about broccoli cabbage. Transplant it into hothouse conditions. When stable frosts began, excavate the plant with roots and transplant it into the greenhouse. Broccoli will get along well and give a harvest if you take care of it.
