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Re: Broccoli

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At 7:54 AM -0500 6/8/99, Mary Thorp wrote to the Sq Ft Gardening List:
>reminded me to ask the assembled wisdom of the list about broccoli
>plants and their huge leaves...my broccoli plants have effectively
>shaded out their neighbors for the last month at least.  It doesn't seem
>to hurt the lettuces much, but other plants have definitely suffered.
>How do you plant broccoli so that it doesn't take up all the available
>sun?

Mary, this isn't an answer, so please excuse me.  Nevertheless, I think
you're onto something at the heart of the sq foot and other intensive
gardening methods: interplanting and creating plant tiers.  Sounds like
you've found a good companion in the lettuce underneath your broccoli.  The
shade may extend your lettuce season.
I've got peas growing around, up and over broccoli.  I don't recommend it;
I just did it.  I think that my broccoli heads are perhaps smaller, but
they've been tasty, and in between the peas they don't seem to be as
accessible to the moths.  When the peas plants start to dry up, I hope to
open up the broccoli and take some side cuts.
This is a long way of saying that I think this is part of the fun of
gardening in tighter spaces.  It causes us to explore companions and
layers.
Thanks for indulging my nonresponse.  --Ted in SE Pennsylvania


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