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grown by ypgarden in Garden · Mountain View, CA

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Planted 2014-08-31

First harvest expected 2014-12-10

Finished 2015-05-10

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Harvest months

Spring
March
April, usually harvesting
May, usually harvesting
Summer
June
July
August
Autumn
September
October
November
Winter
December
January
February

Highlighted months are when this crop is usually harvested here.

Planted

about 12 years ago 2014-08-31

Progress

Done 252 days

Quantity

12 seedlings

Grown in

semi-shade

Rating

not rated

Grown from

Seedling

Weather in Mountain View, CA New

Daily high and low
Mixed conditions for broccoli so farFrom Aug 31 to May 10, 163 of 237 days had a high inside the best range of 15–24°C. The highs were below the best range on 25 days and above the best range on 49 days. The weather was too hot on 1 day (highs above 35°C) and too cold on 4 days (lows below 3°C).
2 °C frost lineDies at -1 °CGrows at 3–35°Grows best 15–24°
Daily rainfall
Rain
312 mm
Hottest day
35.3°C
Coldest night
0.5°C
Soil temperature
16.6°C
Days in its best range
163 of 237
Days
237

Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0). Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. The weather is modelled for the area around the garden, not measured in it, and runs a few days behind. The totals, charts and expected weather are our adaptation of that data.

Notes

2014-08-31: Planted 6 broccoli in earthbox on north-facing balcony.

2015-01-19: Planted 6 more broccoli in second earthbox on north-facing balcony.

2015-05-03: Ate more broccoli; probably the third time we've harvested these plants – all have been very low yield harvests.

2015-05-10: Confirmed what has been eating most of the broccoli leaves by discovering a snail of unusual size under the broccoli pot. Between that and the aphids, it's probably time to retire the broccoli.

Photos

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Observations

Nothing noticed yet. Note when it flowers, fruits, wilts or falls ill.

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    Planted

Frost may have reached this broccoli planting

One night while frost was possible was at or below 2 °C. The coldest was 0.5 °C.

This broccoli planting against the frost season

  • Usual frost danger
  • Possible: as early or late as it has come
  • Planting, finished
Coldest night
0.5 °C
1.5 °C below the 2 °C frost danger line
Frost danger it grew through
80 days
from planting to the latest it has come, 20 Feb
Usual last frost
20 Jan
planted 142 days before it

Experimental: this feature is new and might be flaky. These dates are estimates from 25 km weather-model data, not readings from a station at your garden, so a cold spot can be colder. They may be wrong, so check your national weather service and ask local growers before relying on them.

Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0)

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Crop

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Broccoli

Brassica oleracea

a variety of Brassica Oleracea

  • 87 plantings
  • 33 harvests
  • An annual, living about 122 days
  • First harvest about 113 days after planting
  • Last harvest about 133 days after planting
  • Usually grown in sun

World neighbours

Other broccoli plantings at the same latitude.