Best time to plant broccoli in Mount Gambier
Brassica oleracea
Sow broccoli in Mount Gambier in Nov to Mar.
A close relative of cauliflower, broccoli is a brassica grown for its big green flower heads, with the stalk and small leaves also eaten. The florets branch from a thick, paler stalk in a tree-like shape, and the whole vegetable works either raw or cooked.
When to sow in Mount Gambier
Mount Gambier, SA is in the cool zone. Its months for broccoli apply here without a frost adjustment.
Matches local guides.
Your local conditions can shift any months shown here, so treat them as a guide.
Frost in Mount Gambier
Frost usually arrives in Mount Gambier around mid May and finishes by late October. In about 1 year in 10 it comes as early as mid April or as late as late November, so frost-tender crops are planned around those dates.
From its Bureau of Meteorology station, 1991 to 2020, counting a night at 2°C or lower as a frost. Frost hollows and hillsides can shift these dates by weeks, so ask the growers at your garden too.
On a shared plot: suits a plot
Finishes in a season and stays within its space, so it suits most plots.
Growing details
- How to start
- Raise seedlings, then transplant
- Sowing depth
- 1-2cm
- Plant spacing
- 60cm
- Row spacing
- 40cm
- Height
- 75cm
- Germination
- Soil 5-35°C, fastest at 20-28°C
- Time to harvest
- 56-91 days from planting out
- Frost
- Hardy, takes a light frost
- Sun
- Full sun
- Life cycle
- biennial, usually grown as an annual
These are typical figures, and varieties differ. Your seed packet takes priority.