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Rapini should be grown in full sun or light shade in well-drained soil that has been amended with plenty of well-rotted compost. Pat and smooth the soil around the newly transplanted seedling and water it in. Then situate your seedling into the soil so that its crown is flush with the soil level rather than above or below it. Mix a bit of the medium from the nursery pot into the garden soil. Remove your seedling from its nursery pot, gently loosening up the growing medium. Use your hori hori or garden trowel to dig a small hole in your planting bed. Those in humid locations should err on the side of more room between plants to increase airflow. Plan on planting your seedlings four to 12 inches apart. Once the young rapini seedlings are hardened off and ready to live life in new soil, prepare your planting area by mixing well-rotted compost into your soil. Need to brush up on your seed-starting skills? Be sure to read our primer on starting annuals indoors. To get your plants going indoors, start these seeds just as you would other annuals.
Thinned rapini seedlings make excellent additions to salads or sautes. Rather than pulling up unwanted seedlings, you can snip them off at the soil surface to avoid disturbing the roots of the other seedlings. When the plants start to get crowded, thin them so the plants are four to 12 inches apart. Rather than thinning these while they are very small, allow them to size up a bit. Space the holes out one to two inches apart from each other.
Make a hole approximately a quarter of an inch deep in the soil for each seed. When you have your seeds and are ready to sow, first smooth your soil down to create a level planting area. Soil that is slightly damp but not wet is not required, but will make sowing easier. Water your planting bed down the day before you sow your seeds, or wait to sow until the day after it rains. To prepare your planting beds, mix plenty of well-rotted compost into your garden soil. Like kale and radishes, raab is a cruciferous vegetable with a fairly quick maturation, making it an easy crop to grow via direct sowing. Let’s have a look at direct sowing first. Once you decide when to plant, your next decision is to choose whether to direct sow, or to start your crop indoors and then transplant. For an autumn crop, sow your seeds eight to ten weeks before your first average fall frost. When planting in the spring, make sure to time sowing so that your crop will come to maturity before the really hot weather kicks in, which will cause the plants to bolt.įor spring plantings, start your seeds four to six weeks before your last average spring frost date. To prevent unwanted spread in susceptible locations, be sure to harvest the buds before plants go to seed.Īs a cool-season vegetable, broccoli rabe can be planted either in spring or in fall. Harvest the buds along with the several leaves growing just under the bud.But note that in some areas, this plant is considered an invasive species. When the shoots have grown about a foot high, The plants are best spaced around 30cm apart with 30cm between rows.Īs the plants matures, shoots begin sprouting from the plant’s crown. Transplant when the seedlings are around three inches high.
The seedlings transplant well but be careful not to disturb its roots. Sow successionly thereafter until autumn. Germination averages 5-7 days under-cover at 65F.Ĭan be sown directly outside as the soil warms in late spring sparingly in drills. Sow under cover with warmth from 4-6 weeks prior to the last expected frost. Harvesting in around 45 days this is a ideal catch crop vegetable similar to Kale with thin shoots topped by loose, small broccoli like bud clusters with a slightly sharper flavor than broccoli.Ĭultivation Advice Broccoletto Quarantino Riccio A speciality fast growing variety from Italy also known as “Rapini, Raab or Rabe” which is very popular on the continent.
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