{"id":26,"date":"2012-04-29T21:45:42","date_gmt":"2012-04-29T21:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markhamfarm.com\/mainsite\/?p=26"},"modified":"2012-04-29T20:46:53","modified_gmt":"2012-04-29T20:46:53","slug":"double-your-broccoli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markhamfarm.com\/mainsite\/double-your-broccoli\/","title":{"rendered":"Double Your Broccoli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The traditional growing season up here in NH is only from Memorial Day to Veteran&#8217;s Day. And, sometimes we get frosts as long as a week after Memorial Day, as we had last year.<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/..\/images\/stories\/broc1.png\" alt=\"\" name=\"graphics35\" width=\"173\" height=\"150\" align=\"RIGHT\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"3\" vspace=\"5\" \/><\/span> If you limit yourself to planting broccoli (also cabbage, kale and brussel&#8217;s sprouts) only during that time frame, you will end up with only one crop per year. However, unlike tomatoes or cucumbers; these plants are fairly resistant to cold temperatures; so they can be planted out earlier and grown later.<\/p>\n<p>Planting for two harvests is easy enough. Figure out when last frost is in your area; and start your seedlings indoors twelve weeks before hand; and then plant them outside six weeks beforehand. Your first crop will be ready to harvest about mid-season.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, on the date of last frost or a week or so later, start a new batch of seedlings indoors. These will be ready to plant within a week or so of the first crop being harvested. This second crop will be ready a couple of weeks after the first frost and will likely be of higher quality than the first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The traditional growing season up here in NH is only from Memorial Day to Veteran&#8217;s Day. And, sometimes we get frosts as long as a week after Memorial Day, as we had last year. If you limit yourself to planting broccoli (also cabbage, kale and brussel&#8217;s sprouts) only during that time frame, you will end [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,15,4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broccoli","category-planting","category-self-sufficiency","category-vegetables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markhamfarm.com\/mainsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markhamfarm.com\/mainsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markhamfarm.com\/mainsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markhamfarm.com\/mainsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markhamfarm.com\/mainsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.markhamfarm.com\/mainsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27,"href":"https:\/\/www.markhamfarm.com\/mainsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions\/27"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markhamfarm.com\/mainsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markhamfarm.com\/mainsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markhamfarm.com\/mainsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}