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 ...

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.

But strategic gardeners will know that August is not just the culmination of the summer growing season; it’s also the beginning of fall’s bounty. As early summer plants begin to fade and finish their ...

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 ...

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 ...

For a fall harvest, direct-plant outdoors in summer. Broccoli seeds should be planted about ½ inches deep in the soil and 5 or 6 inches apart to be thinned later to about 18 inches apart. If your ...

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.

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.