Notes
Heat-tolerant heading broccoli for spring and fall. Two rows, 18-inch in-row. Net against cabbage moth. Cut main head at a slant; sideshoots pay the rent.
Cultivars / Brassicas
Arcadia
Broccoli · Brassica oleracea var. italica
DTM
63 d
97 d occupancy · hardy
Rows
2
18 in in-row
Density
1.33
plants / bed-ft
Yield
1.33
heads / bed-ft
Direct $/ft
$4.79
$4.00 / head
Propagation
- Method
- Transplant
- Cell size
- 128s
- Nursery lead
- 32 d
- Germination
- 6 d
- Germ temp
- 45°F – 80°F (opt 70°F)
- Seed spacing
- 18 in
Field geometry · 30 in
- Bed width
- 30 in
- Rows / bed
- 2
- In-row
- 18 in
- Seed spacing
- 18 in
- Plants / linear ft
- 1.33
- Plants / 50 ft
- 67
Timeline
- DTM from field
- 63 d
- Holding
- 10 d
- Occupancy
- 97 d
- Multicut
- yes · 4 cuts · 8 d
- Fall photoperiod
- ×1.1
- Frost hardiness
- Hardy
Yield & revenue
- Sales unit
- head
- Units / bed-ft
- 1.33
- Avg unit wt
- 1.2 lb
- Target lb / bed-ft
- 1.6 lb
- Cull rate
- 10%
- Wholesale / Direct
- $2.25 / $4.00
Irrigation
- Drip lines / bed
- 2
- Emitter spacing
- 12 in
- Emitter GPH
- 0.5
- Weekly water
- 1.2 in
- GPH / 50 ft
- 50
- Gal / week · 50 ft
- 93.5
Soil extraction
- Fertility demand
- Heavy
- N / 100 bed-ft
- 2.4 lb
- P / 100 bed-ft
- 0.55 lb
- K / 100 bed-ft
- 2.3 lb
- N-P-K / 50 ft
- 1.2 / 0.3 / 1.2 lb
- Family
- Brassicaceae
On this farm · 50 ft block
- Season window
- 2026-03-04 → 2026-11-10
- First greenhouse
- 2026-01-31
- First harvest
- 2026-05-06
- Successions that fit
- 3 · every 14 d
- Bed-ft for 50 lb
- 35 ft
- Seed for 50 ft
- 79 seeds · 67 plants
- Wholesale / Direct · 50 ft
- $134.66 / $239.40
Companions
onion · beet · lettuce
Avoid
tomato · strawberry