Vegetable Garden

[Rawb]

A question for you garden veterans;

Froim what I read online, you can plant broccoli, artichokes, spinach and garlic even before the last frost (as long as the last frost won’t mean ‘snow’, which in California it never does). I have some plants to put out, and I was wondering if that was true. Anybody know?

 

[Red_Meg]

I put in broccoli plants late in the fall of 2006. They pretty much just sat there doing nothing all through the winter, went through a few frosts (I think?) unscathed, and then proceeded to provide us with lovely fresh broccoli in the early spring-- say March to April.

I’m in Silicon Valley, for reference purposes. No snow, except waaaaay up on Mt. Hamilton, but generally a couple of frosty nights.

Funny you should bring this up-- I didn’t spot any broccoli at the nursery this past fall, so I just started some seeds in my little inside window box in peat pots. Hopefully I’ll be moving them out in a month or so…

Margaret