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Growing Broccoli in the Pajaro Valley
If you garden in Watsonville, Corralitos, or the south-county flats and benches of the Pajaro Valley, broccoli is a natural fit for your deep, rich ground. This is brassica country in the working farms all around you, and a home gardener can grow excellent heads here by leaning i
Growing Broccoli in the Santa Cruz Coastal Fog Belt
If you garden in the immediate coastal band, the foggy strip through Santa Cruz, Capitola, the Aptos coast, and out toward Davenport, you have landed in one of the best broccoli spots in California. The cool, damp summers that frustrate tomato growers are exactly what broccoli wa
Growing Broccoli in the Santa Cruz Banana Belt
If you garden in the county's warm sunny pocket, the hill belts above the fog around Soquel, Aptos, and the sunnier side of Santa Cruz, broccoli is still a good crop for you. It just asks for a little more attention to timing than it does down on the foggy coast.