Hello everyone. Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. Kevin here. Today we're going to be discussing in a couple different episodes growing broccoli. I've had some struggles with this in the past and I think you guys know it's mostly due to

the climate that I live in tons of pests and it really is the perfect cool

season crop which I sometimes don't have much of a cool season. Even right now it's

almost mid-November and it's still 70-something degrees out and broccoli is one of those

crops that really does prefer a little bit colder temperatures.

So in today's episode, we're going to be discussing

the preparation of your garden for broccoli

as well as the planting process.

Broccoli is quite a heavy feeder, so you really do want to prepare the

soil adequately. That means you want to prepare the soil somewhat deep, about

12 to 20 inches deep. There's quite a deep root system to broccoli.

And what you'll want to do is lay down maybe

two or three inches of compost or composted manure

when you prepare the soil. And if if you want to you can work it in

although you don't absolutely have to if you know that your soil is good.

They do prefer soil that is slightly acidic to slightly alkaline.

So they can play on both sides of that pH of seven.

So a 6.8 to a 7.4 is a good range.

Many vegetables do prefer even more acidic than a 6.8, so just keep that in mind.

Broccoli is slightly more basic preferring than many other edibles that you might be growing in your

garden.

If you don't have a lot of compost

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