Vegetables · Cool
Broccoli raab
Brassicaceae
At a glance
- Plant spacing
- 20 cm
- USDA zones
- 4a–10a
- Frost-sensitive
- no
- Growth duration
- 9 weeks
Which beds suit?
- Sun (prefers)
- full sunAlso okay:partial shade
- Soil (prefers)
- loamyAlso okay:raised-bed mix
- Drainage (prefers)
- normal
Seed & start
Direct sow
Sow directly into the bed — no pre-culture needed.
Stachi's tip
Broccoli raab (cima di rapa) is Italy's fast brassica: 9 weeks seed-to-harvest, you eat stems plus flower buds plus leaves. Spicy, slightly bitter — a classic with garlic and chilli in pasta. Cabbage-white netting still mandatory.
Sowing
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Harvest
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Good neighbours
Avoid these neighbours
Good pre-cultures
Stachi has no specific pre-cultures recorded.
Sources
- LLM-Baseline-2026-05-27 Phase 7 expansion
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