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Mon, Oct 20, 14 at 15:31
| Our raised vegetable garden is only about 350 square feet of growing space but is twice the size it used to be. But still, we are rethinking some of the choices of what we grow because some crops take up a lot of space with not so much yield. Like Broccoli. Love fresh broccoli, but the plants get huge for one head and you have to grow them for at least a couple of months, right? Tomatoes, peppers, string beans and trellised cucumbers have given us the biggest yield so far. Just wondered if anyone else is making choices in their garden according to yield size and what are you choosing to grow? |
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| If you wanted to plant lettuce, you can get a bunch in a small space. We transplant in lettuce In the 200 square foot bed, we have over 400 heads of lettuce. Best of all, it isn't there very long. We start off all our seedlings in 72 cell 10 by 20 trays. If you only grew the mini romaine heads, you could grow them even closer ( those are the ones in the foreground). Not know what your goal is, but you would be eating lots of lettuce.
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| We grow broccoli Di Cicco. Here, we get many small heads from the same plants over months. Very productive. |
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| those that PM lists, plus zucchini, lettuce, cabbage and chard. Nothing else is in the same class. I have a salad chicory that is prodigious, similar to lettuce, and keeps going all year. I plant it under tomatoes for a double crop. |
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- Posted by conchitaFL 10 Hutchinson Island (My Page) on Mon, Oct 20, 14 at 16:05
| For broccoli, also look into Piracicaba and Happy Rich, which is a broccoli-gai lan cross. They don't head up with big heads, but you can eat all parts of the plant, especially the leaves. |
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