Green Garden HARVEST: How to Harvest Broccoli

[richboyy19]

does it grow back or do you have to replant it?

[RougeSamurai77]

I'm Jared the blue Gardner!

[pickle19100]

Good video Pat, I read some place that one of the keys to keeping the head firm is a light frost? Don't know if that is true or not. I am in North Texas and planted my brocolli from seed.

They are starting to put on heads now, 3 days before Xmas. We have had a few freezes, not real hard, and the leaves were burned a little but plants seem to be doing okay. Our last frost is usually the middle of March. Anxious to see my yield, will try tying a couple plants and see the difference.

[4GreenEarth2]

Looks great !

[pastelmoon]

I liked how you planted the corn and broccoli together. I'm going to incorporate that idea into my garden next year to make space for a couple of other vegetables I want to try.

[oharanetworks]

@pastelmoon THANK YOU! It does work well because the corn doesn't need sun down low and does not produce much shade so to have beets, carrots, broccoli, or any low vegetable plant works well under the corn stalks.

[checkfoldcallraise]

cool point about the the string. i've heard something similar about cauliflower. you pinch two leaves together over the head of the cauliflower to give it shade since the sun usually turns cauliflower yellow and may affect the taste.

[oharanetworks]

@checkfoldcallraise GREAT point, it works well with Cauliflower too!

[slapurmommaz]

Thank you Pat..I never realized the tip about putting the string around it to keep the head close together as it develops, but it makes perfect sense!

[oharanetworks]

@slapurmommaz You're welcome, bungee cords work well too.

[sundaisy7]

I'm going out to my garden right now ~ I have a nice head on one of my plants. I only planted a few to give it a try. I like the idea of tying the leaves together and will try that next year! Thanks

[oharanetworks]

@sundaisy7 That's great sundaisy7, I hope you enjoy the fruits of your labor!

[hopulikit22]

Pat, when you cut the plant down as far as you did, you just killed your chances of harvesting the side shoots that come back in place of the main head. You can harvest several times from a broccoli plant if you just cut the main head of just below where all the stalks meet.

[oharanetworks]

@hopulikit22 ...Great point, I get very excited sometimes when I'm making my 'homemade video's' but you are absolutely correct.

Thank You for pointing that out.

[hopulikit22]

@oharanetworks I wasn't trying to correct you or anything. I just wanted to make sure that you get the most from the plant since it takes so long to get a harvest from them. People who have never had fresh homegrown broccoli don't know what real broccoli taste like. Kuddos to you Pat! Thanks for sharing.

[keithrules70]

thanks Patrick!