Beautiful green broccoli is one of the most versatile vegetables a backyard gardener can plant. It's delicious raw or cooked, easy to freeze and store, and it's ready to harvest often in fewer ...

Rene Eisenbart/The Oregonian Plant seeds now through mid-July for a season of broccoli, the easiest of all cole crops (the cabbage family) to grow Sow seed in pairs a half-inch deep directly into ...

Sow broccoli in modules thinning to one per module. Grow on seedlings in 3″ pots, adding a little lime to remove any acidity. Plant out in a firm soil when plants are large enough.

At this point in summer, it might feel like everything is wilting, including your will to water your garden. But when it ...

Our broccoli plants took 4 months to grow from seeds to mature plants so if you’d like broccoli in your fall garden, it’s best to germinate them in late August in deep shade and bring them ...

July is the perfect time to fill those trays and sow seed of broccoli, cabbage, and all the leafy greens like spinach, ...

Theoretically, you can direct-plant broccoli seeds in the gardens now, but I would forget where I’d put them and step on them as I harvest and tend other plants.

Mary Ellen Waugh, my mom who manages the garden at BEAM in Jacksonville Beach, showed me some tricks to planting them starting with broccoli, which you should buy as a seedling.

Broccoli prefers cool weather and a temperature range of 40 to 70 degrees. It tolerates frost, but much time spent below 25 degrees can damage or kill the plants.

To make matters more confusing, broccoli rabe, like an aunt who marries often, has several monikers. This peppery plant is also called broccoli raab, rapini, rappa, Italian turnip, fall and spring ...