The bunches of flower buds that look like miniature trees are packed with nutrients! Let’s grow, eat, and live to be 100 years old!
Misha: This time it’s broccoli.
Hachibee: It’s a familiar vegetable at the supermarket. For salads, gratin, cream stew…
Misha: As usual, I’ll start with the gluttonous stuff. Broccoli is a member of the cruciferous family and is closely related to cabbage, so it is packed with nutrients. It is rich in vitamins and minerals and is said to be good for preventing arteriosclerosis, diabetes, and anemia.
Hachibee: Moto that is delicious to eat and has a long life. There’s no way I can’t grow it!
Misha: Let’s get started.
Broccoli “almost weekly” cultivation report
9/17 Planting seeds
Hachibee: This time the species is blue.
Misha: It’s a fungicide film coat that protects the seeds from the elements. The natural color of seeds is brown or black.
9/24 Germination!
Hachibee: Oh! As expected, the blue seeds are coated with a film! Germination is fast!
Misha: Broccoli seeds naturally germinate quickly.
10/1 New leaves appear
Hachibee: Hurry! It’s already grown so big!
10/8 Leaves increase
Hachibee: Beautiful leaves. It looks like a picture from a picture book.
10/15 New leaves grow
Hachibee: It’s growing, it’s growing, it’s growing!
10/22 Planting in the ground/planting
Misha: When the leaves get big, plant them outdoors.
Hachibee: Oh! It’s finally going to grow from here, right? ?
10/29 Leaves are starting to grow!
Hachibee: It’s really starting to grow!
11/5 The leaves are growing rapidly
Hachibee: I feel like I’m rooted in the earth and filled with power.
Misha: The whole leaf has become fleshy, and it’s starting to look more and more like a vegetable.
11/12 Leaves appear one after another from the middle of the plant.
Hachibee: The stems are getting thicker and the whole thing is becoming more sturdy.
11/19 Leaves are curly and uneven
Hachibee: This is starting to feel like a vegetable leaf.
Misha: The taste will probably start to taste more like vegetables, and the battle with the insect eaters will finally begin.
11/26 Increased density between leaves
Hachibee: Before I knew it, the leaves had gotten wider and bigger. I can’t see the ground anymore!
Misha: It absorbs a lot of sunlight.
12/3 The leaves are still getting bigger
Hachibee: It’s amazing that the leaves can spread so wide and still not touch the ground.
Misha: Broccoli is strong, isn’t it?
12/10 The base of the stem becomes thicker
Hachibee: It has a thick trunk like a tree.
Misha: Solid, solid. Broccoli doesn’t suffer from the cold winter weather.
12/17 There are still more leaves
Hachibee: Even though winter is almost here, broccoli is getting more and more energetic.
Misha: Broccoli is resistant to cold, or rather, it loves cold.
12/24 The stem is thicker
Hachibee: It’s getting thicker and thicker!
12/31 More leaves
Hachibee: The colder it gets, the more energetic broccoli becomes. He’s like the North Wind Boy.
1/7 Increased stock density
Hachibee: It looks like the leaves are starting to grow thicker.
Misha: The density has increased not only horizontally but also vertically.
1/14 Battle with insect eaters
Hachibee: Insects exist even in the middle of winter.
Misha: Even in the middle of winter, when most of the plants in your garden or field wither, if you have this broccoli plant, you can always have green leaves to eat. It must be heaven for insects.
1/21 There is a bulge in the center of the stock…
Hachibee: Oh! Clearly, something other than leaves has started to sprout!
1/28 A flower stalk forms in the center of the plant.
Hachibee: The flower stalks can grow quite deep.
Misha: Yes. The surrounding leaves began to surround the flower stem, as if it were a shield to prevent tree blight.
2/4 Buds begin to form
Hachibee: It’s a little hard to see, but little bits are starting to form!
2/11 Flower stems begin to grow – buds appear
Hachibee: It’s out!
Misha: I’m impressed by the way the surrounding leaves protect the buds from the north wind.
2/18 The buds start to grow
Hachibee: It’s growing, it’s growing!
2/25 Volume up!
Hachibee: Oh! This thick Afro hair looks like broccoli, no matter who sees it!
Misha: The number of buds has increased and the volume has increased.
3/3 Harvest!
Hachibee: It’s big! It quickly became huge. This one looks like it’s worth eating!
Misha: Harvest when the flower buds are about 15-20 cm in diameter. When harvested in winter, the flower buds may turn purple, but this is due to the production of anthocyanin pigments due to the cold weather, and there is no problem in eating them.
~One word! Broccoli cultivation points~
Cultivation difficulty：★★★☆☆
If planted in autumn, it will be harvested from February to spring of the following year.
Although regular fertilization and extermination of caterpillars are essential,
Growth is vigorous
garden in cold season
Colorful with lush, fleshy leaves
