Spring Grown Broccoli

This was my first year sowing cole crops in the Spring. My broccoli did very well but I have a question.

I have harvested the main head off of many of my plants. Although all the varieties I grew promised secondary side heads, will that be the case in Georgia where the weather will turn hot pretty fast? The plants still look fantastic but I don't want to tie up bed space if there is going to be nothing else coming.

Thanks
BB

I don't know of GA broccoli, but although in CT we can easily get a 2nd, they are quite small for the space they take up compared to warmer crops as summer approaches. . I personally pull most out in favor of summer veggies -, and do the 2nd and 3rd heads off the broccoli in the fall/winter when they taste soo much better.


-joe-

BB. I f your cultivar is one that produces side shoots, you will get a lot more side shoots from spring planting than fall planting. I typically get two -three cuttings after the main head. They will go down in late June as the temps hit 100 degrees. You probably have more leeway than I do.

Thanks to both of you

BB

The leaves are quite edible and loaded with vitamins.

I eat them raw in salads, but I eat lots of stuff raw that my Mother boiled for two hours with a chunk of fatback.

BB, I've been harvesting broccoli since January. I'm still getting a few side shoots, but they're few and far between now.

I don't know what I did wrong. I had a small head of broccoli that was actually already on the transplant when I bought it (Jan? Feb? can't remember) so we enjoyed that, but since then the plant has only gotten bigger and taken up more space but with no sign of another head or sideshoot.

So... I finally decided that nothing else was ever going to happen and and I chucked the thing just yesterday so I could use the container. So Calalilly, I guess I shouldn't have, if you're still getting sideshoots and you're even further south than I am. But maybe I also needed to give it more fertilizer or something. Oh well!
LiseP

LiseP. Your plant had buttoned. It is not unusual for broccoli or cauliflower which has stayed in a cup too long. They are stunted and will rarely ever amount to anything. Nurseries should not sell these overage plants, but you will find some that do. When buying plants always look for fresh plants, preferably within one or two days of delivery from the grower.
http://www.ipm.iastate.edu/ipm/hortnews/1997/3-21-1997/broc.html http://ucipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/GARDEN/VEGES/ENVIRON/buttoning.html?printpage http://www.extension.umn.edu/distribution/horticulture/M1247.html

Very interesting, Farmerdill. Buttoning -- a new term for me! Thanks for the links.
Lisep