Notes
Reliable crown, good side-shoots. Spring/fall.
Cultivars / Brassicas
Belstar
Broccoli · Brassica oleracea var. italica
DTM
66 d
73 d occupancy · hardy
Rows
2
15 in in-row
Density
1.6
plants / bed-ft
Yield
1.3
heads / bed-ft
Direct $/ft
$4.58
$4.00 / head
Propagation
- Method
- Transplant
- Cell size
- 128s
- Nursery lead
- 28 d
- Germination
- 5 d
- Germ temp
- 45°F – 85°F (opt 70°F)
- Seed spacing
- 2 in
Field geometry · 30 in
- Bed width
- 30 in
- Rows / bed
- 2
- In-row
- 15 in
- Seed spacing
- 2 in
- Plants / linear ft
- 1.6
- Plants / 50 ft
- 80
Timeline
- DTM from field
- 66 d
- Holding
- 7 d
- Occupancy
- 73 d
- Multicut
- no
- Fall photoperiod
- ×1.15
- Frost hardiness
- Hardy
Yield & revenue
- Sales unit
- head
- Units / bed-ft
- 1.3
- Avg unit wt
- 0.9 lb
- Target lb / bed-ft
- 1.1 lb
- Cull rate
- 12%
- Wholesale / Direct
- $2.50 / $4.00
Irrigation
- Drip lines / bed
- 2
- Emitter spacing
- 8 in
- Emitter GPH
- 0.5
- Weekly water
- 1.4 in
- GPH / 50 ft
- 75
- Gal / week · 50 ft
- 109.1
Soil extraction
- Fertility demand
- Heavy
- N / 100 bed-ft
- 2.6 lb
- P / 100 bed-ft
- 0.7 lb
- K / 100 bed-ft
- 2.8 lb
- N-P-K / 50 ft
- 1.3 / 0.4 / 1.4 lb
- Family
- Brassicaceae
On this farm · 50 ft block
- Season window
- 2026-03-04 → 2026-11-10
- First greenhouse
- 2026-02-04
- First harvest
- 2026-05-09
- Successions that fit
- 3 · every 14 d
- Bed-ft for 50 lb
- 52 ft
- Seed for 50 ft
- 95 seeds · 80 plants
- Wholesale / Direct · 50 ft
- $143.00 / $228.80
Companions
allium · beet
Avoid
tomato · strawberry