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I have been gardening for years, I live along the ct. shoreline listed as zone 6 but the long island sound keeps us cooler longer in the winter and warmer longer in the fall - maybe a zone 5. Either way most everything grows well and I harvest 8-9 times throughout the year using a home built pvc and plastic 7' tall unheated greenhouse. I've tried broccoli all different times, all different locations but just can't get it quite right. I almost always end up with a quick bolt, cutting it, than eating side shoots. Cabbage doesn't like to ball up nice for me either. Root crops are my best and I generally try to grow the broccoli in the same bed. The soil is clay and 2-3" spring homemade compost tilled in every year.
I lost track along the way of what works better and worse, but I can not remember ever having good harvest of full heads. Right now, corn is about to start heading to my grill and the plants coming out to the compost pile. It is my sunniest spot and my spring broccoli just finished giving me it's side shoots.
I am looking for a run down of how I can get the broccoli timed to plant this fall as the corn comes out I will cover the field with the greenhouse plastic in oct. Giving me almost everything (To date - never a functional broccoli) - sometime even tomatoes at thanksgiving
-joe-
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