{"id":7337,"date":"2010-05-14T00:39:55","date_gmt":"2010-05-14T07:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7337"},"modified":"2010-05-14T00:39:55","modified_gmt":"2010-05-14T07:39:55","slug":"tips-for-growing-broccoli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/vegetables-herbs\/tips-for-growing-broccoli\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips for Growing Broccoli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Broccoli is often referred to as a wonder foods &#8211; with a great range of minerals and vitamins. Whether it is a wonder food or not, freshly cut broccoli from the garden makes for a very tasty vegetable accompaniment.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To grow broccoli, sow in pots 7-9 weeks before the last frost. To protect roots during transplant, plant in 3 inch pots or decomposable cardboard. After hardening off, plant outside.<\/li>\n<li>Broccoli like full sun, though in hot climates, full sun may encourage them to go to seed. Therefore, they can still do well in partial shade.<\/li>\n<li>Like many other Brasicas, they like a steady growing environment. If possible shield from extremes of temperature. After planting be ready with some fleece to protect from prolonged period of cold nights.<\/li>\n<li>When the soil warms up, try adding a layer of mulch to keep soil moist and overheating.<\/li>\n<li>For best results, offer your broccoli a steady feeding and watering regime. Broccoli like 3-4cm of watering per week. For feeding try blood and bone meal or seaweed feed on a fortnightly basis.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Broccoli are fairly pest resistant, though you will need to keep an eye open for usual suspects such as slugs, pigeons and <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/pests-problems\/stop-caterpillar-damage\/\">caterpillars<\/a>. Diseases are rarely a problem, but, make sure there is a good crop rotation programme in order.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.awin1.com\/cread.php?awinmid=2283&amp;awinaffid=81944&amp;clickref=&amp;p=http:\/\/www.thompson-morgan.com\/seeds1\/group\/broccoli.html\">Broccoli Seeds<\/a> at T&amp;M<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/vegetables-herbs\/top-ten-vegetables-from-gardeners-tips\/\">Top Ten Vegetables<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/vegetables-herbs\/broccoli-all-year\/\">Varieties of Brocoli<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Broccoli is often referred to as a wonder foods &#8211; with a great range of minerals and vitamins. Whether it is a wonder food or not, freshly cut broccoli from the garden makes for a very tasty vegetable accompaniment. To grow broccoli, sow in pots 7-9 weeks before the last frost. To protect roots during transplant, plant in 3 inch pots or decomposable cardboard. After hardening off, plant outside. Broccoli like full sun, though in hot climates, full sun may&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/vegetables-herbs\/tips-for-growing-broccoli\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vegetables-herbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}