How to grow broccoli - asparagus

The Italian-sissy broccoli is the most thermophilic among the other cabbage species. An adult plant can tolerate frosts to minus five, while little-broccoli and minus two deaths. But still gardeners dare, they are looking for how to grow broccoli even in the harsh conditions of Siberia. They show perseverance because this asparagus is much more productive than the colored cabbage, it is also much more nutritious and is widely known for its curative and dietary properties.

Appearance

Broccoli is called asparagus because of the similar branching of the lateral shoots. She can form additional heads on them, due to which the yield increases. In the form of broccoli similar to cauliflower - bundles of flower buds on a plump and tender stem. But the color of broccoli is more fun: it can be green, and purple, and white, and blue. Early varieties have a loose head, and late ones are dense and larger. After removal of the central head, after two or three weeks lateral, lateral and lateral appear, they are eaten together with shoots.

Chemical composition and benefits

Broccoli is valuable precisely for its chemical composition, which includes vitamins and salts of magnesium, calcium, potassium, phosphorus. It is very often used in dietary nutrition. Broccoli effectively helps patients with the meteorine and choline available in her proteins, which do not allow cholesterol to accumulate in the body. In the shoots of this cabbage, there are many different sugars, and there is more vitamin C in it than in cauliflower.

Broccoli: growing seedlings

This cabbage will have to be cut off on time, otherwise it will overripe. How to grow broccoli so that it gradually ripens all summer, but not all at once? Usually it is not sown at the same time: if the varieties have different maturation periods, then it is possible and all at once, and if the same - observe a weekly interval. Early hybrids ripen in seventy-eighty days, this is the Dwarf F1, Brogan F1 , Kermit F1 , Lucky F1 . Medium varieties - Fiesta F1 and Coronado F1 - ripen days ninety.

Seed seedlings for two seeds in a hole depth of about two centimeters. Then, after the formation of two real leaves, only a strong plant is left, and the weak one is removed, cutting at the level of the soil. In the first days of May in the North-West region seedlings have already been sown, which means that in July the early cabbage will ripen, and in August - late.

Growing broccoli - soil, top dressing

Broccoli requires neutral, even slightly alkaline soil, rich in humus, approximately pH 7-7.5. A constant top dressing is necessary, for example with "Uniflor-micro" solution. Broccoli is very fond of trace elements, especially boron. It is possible, however, to feed weekly with its usual infusion of ash with boric acid (one-third of a teaspoon per ten liters of water). But nitrogen fertilizers need to be limited, otherwise the leaves will grow, and the heads can and do not wait. How to grow broccoli, if very poor soils? Weekly cabbage is fed with infusion of mullein or weeds.

Temperature, humidity and illumination

Broccoli requires moderation in everything: excessive moistening of the soil and too moist air does not like. Illumination is another matter, it should always be good. But when heat and lack of moisture is also bad: it becomes fibrous and stiff, the head forms small, scattered into separate inflorescences.

Harvesting

It is important not to be late and cut the head in time. It has been repeatedly observed that since evening it is dense, and in the morning it has already turned into separate bunches. How to grow broccoli - all ninety days tried, and as soon as they grew up - then all the work can go wrong, because when the cabbage decays into inflorescences, it almost immediately starts to bloom and ceases to be edible.