What Types of Vegetables Should You Grow?

Since this video was only 60 seconds long, I didn't talk about the possibility of growing heading broccoli in multiple successions. This is another option to spread out your broccoli harvest. The downside of this approach is that takes a lot more coordination and planning and uses your growing space and labour less efficiently compared to growing a bed of heads all at the same time. Heading broccoli is a very low maintenance crop that you can walk away from as long as you return to harvest at the right time. If you always have multiple successions of heading broccoli that you need to seed, transplant, and harvest, you've just turned a very low maintenance crop into a very high maintenance crop.

Some of you will also wonder why I didn't mention that heading broccoli can re-sprout for additional harvests. We've done this before with several varieties and had mixed results. The secondary shoots were of lesser quality and the volume and timing of harvest was less predictable than the initial heads. That's why we keep coming back to sprouting broccoli when we want that steady ongoing harvest.

If you have any favourite broccoli varieties to recommend, please share them in the comments. In this video, you saw two of our favourites, Gypsy heading broccoli and Happy Rich sprouting broccoli.

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[EugeneGM]

You'll also notice that he's used netting to protect it. Without that and other protective measures, you're just growing bug food.

[enasdad]

And don’t forget that all those leaves are edible too. Just like collards!!! Delicious

[zeprincesszz]

Btw, the quiz is short and gives legit advice at the end without making you subscribe/give your email 👌

[marcidevries]

I grow a heading brocolli that later sends out lots of side shoots. One big harvest to freeze, then lots of stirrfry for the rest of the season :)

[cynthia]

I grew broccolini last year, and it was so sweet and scrumptious!

[heavymetalbassist]

Use snips to remove them and they do better because that snapped edge is way more susceptible to rot

[Eric-gikg]

When I started my garden a decade ago... I wanted to grow what I bought at the store.
I know that there are a few things I will never be able to grow (pineapple and bananas). But I can grow pretty much everything else... I just need to find the perfect variety for my small patch of real estate ( 0.13 acres).
The only veggie I haven't started yet is asparagus.

[TinglishMilaMali]

Goodness gracious!!!😮😮😮😮 Wow!!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 A very happy place!❤❤

[danmathers]

no other video i have watched mentioned the benefits of growing the broccolini! Makes sense! Always grew heads and didnt think of this. Subscribed now :-) Thank you!

[midwestribeye]

I always do the sprouting broccoli. I can have a side of broccoli whenever I want and my chickens enjoy the leaves.

[LBCB]

can u do a video on starting fruit trees from seed/pits /clippings??
like peach, plum, cherry, apples, avocados, figs, apricots, etc!
😁👍🏻🖤👏🏻
love your channel!!

[GaiasGardenAndLaserGems]

Thank you for all the knowledge you share!

[kperreault]

This was awesome it has a real Bill Nye type feel to it😊

[johnsheppard]

Interesting. All the broccoli we've ever grown we harvest the heads and then get shoots after. I thought that all broccoli did that. We tend to avoid single harvest produce as the garden space is used better by multiple harvest produce.

[pajeetgupta]

I thought I was the only person who walks down the street eating broccoli

[ninazacharia]

Your broccoli is so big and healthy, what fertiliser do you use? I grow organicly so only, blood, fish amd bone, and chicken peleted manure, ;

[eduardochavacano]

Is brocolli harder to grow than Cauliflower???

[jayylad]

what if i don't know what my needs are until i go through trial and error?

[jolie]

I always thought that broccoliny was just young broccoli, but is a different kind of broccoli

[melo]

What can I grow in this unpredictable Texas weather?😅