Garden update - Planting Broccoli (maybe too late?)
Hi Steemit friends!
I am way late on planting some broccoli, but I'm giving it a shot this year.
According to NC State (https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:5QbhUalfh9cJ:https://content.ces.ncsu.edu/growing-a-fall-vegetable-garden+&cd=14&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us), August 15th is when I should be planting my broccoli crop. I ended up planting it yesterday, October 10th.
I went by the local plant store and they still had a lot of broccoli (and other fall crop plants) out, so I let them know it's way late according to the "authorities" and that I'd be taking a chance on buying these plants now.
They agreed, so they let me have buy one flat, get one free. I thought that was fair, so I got the two flats.
I had cleaned up a couple of my beds, #1 and #3... I was going to fill them up with some of the sawdust, but I wanted to immediately plant these, and decided to just use the soil medium that was still in there and go with that.
I did put up some agribon (https://amzn.to/2B4un1g) on the in the garden greenhouse hoops, so maybe that will help.
I'll do more posts as we progress to share if I was too late or not. We shall see!
See my other Gardening and Homesteading Posts
I do the Mittleider Method, see my Mittleider Gardening Posts
- Mittleider Gardening
- Mittleider Book
- Deer Fence
- Mittleider Trellis System
- Twine for the Trellis System
- Mittleider Watering System
- Benefits of the Raised Bed System
- In the Garden Greenhouse hoops
I also have tried the Square Foot Gardening Method
The Harbor Freight 6x8 Greenhouse
Various Techniques and Equipment
- Pressure Canning Green Beans
- Hand Pollinating Squash/Zucchini
- Roma Tomato harvest and Water Bath Canning
- Potato Harvest and Pressure Canning Potatoes
- Black Eyed Peas - Harvest and Storage
- Small Scale Irrigation System
Harvesting Posts/General Updates
- Garden Update - Garden Harvest - 5/17/18
- Garden Update - 5/6/18
- Garden Update - 4/22/18
- Garden Update - Mittlieder irrigation system - 4/2/18
- Garden Update - 3/10/18
- Garden Update - More potato planting, Agribon and in the garden greenhouse construction - 3/5/18
- Garden Update - Planting Potatoes - 2/25/18
- Garden Update - preparing for planting - 2/24/18
- Garden Update - Broccoli Harvest - 1/1/18
- Garden Update - Cabbage Harvest - 12/6/17
- Garden Update - Final Summer plants - 11/9/17
- Garden Update - 11/5/17
- Garden Update - 11/4/17
- Garden Update - 10/10/17
- Garden Harvest - 10/4/17
- Green Bean Harvest - 9/24/17
- Fall Garden Update - 9/23/17
- Garden Harvest - 6/23/17
- Garden Harvest - 6/20/17
- Garden Harvest - 6/18/17
- Garden Harvest - 6/17/17
- Garden Harvest and Food Donation - 6/15/17
- Garden Harvest - 6/16/17
- Garden Harvest - 6/7/17
- Tomato Progress - 5/31/17
- Garden Harvest - 5/30/17
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