Growing broccoli cabbage

Broccoli is an annual plant. Its taste is similar to cauliflower, but the plant itself is more productive, capable of forming a new crop on the lateral shoots after cutting the head from the central one.

Growing broccoli cabbage on soils well fertilized with mineral and organic fertilizers gives a large number of inflorescences. Also, the soil for planting broccoli should be moisture-consuming, light, loose. Cabbage shows the best result in terms of yield on clay and sandy-clay soils.

To obtain large, dense heads, about 20 large leaves should grow on broccoli cabbage. For this to happen, fertilization alone is not enough. Successful cultivation of broccoli cabbage is impossible without regular watering with the obligatory loosening of the soil after each of them or the last rain.

First you need to grow seedlings from seeds. To do this, 40-45 days before the intended transplantation to a permanent place, the seeds are sown indoors in containers.

The most important point in growing broccoli is to avoid stunted plant growth. For this, the leaves are sprayed with water on hot days in order to increase the humidity of the air. If the days are very hot, spray the foliage every 15 minutes.

In the case of a lack of moisture and an elevated temperature (above +25 degrees), the leaves are crushed, the heads are formed immediately loose, sometimes with the germination of small leaves in them.

With good care, each broccoli plant is capable of producing a crop weighing up to 3 kg.