Planting Too Much Broccoli Backfired 🥦

This spring, I dedicated a huge portion of my garden to broccoli with the goal of harvesting 52 pounds—enough for a pound of broccoli every week of the year. That backfired. More broccoli should have meant more food. Instead, pests, wind damage, poor soil, heat stress, and other challenges turned this into one of my biggest garden lessons of the season. In this video, I take a hard look at what went wrong, replace struggling broccoli with more productive crops, and share how this experience is changing my plans for next year. Between cabbage root maggots, pill bugs, ants, wind damage, heat stress, poor soil, and possible salt damage in my front yard beds, broccoli is proving to be a much less reliable crop in my garden than I once believed. 🌱 Crops featured in this video: • Broccoli • Bush Acorn Squash • Bush Butternut Squash • Jalapeños • Green Beans My goal is to grow 650 pounds of food for my family in a suburban backyard garden in Ontario, Canada. Along the way, I'm learning that the goal isn't to grow as much of one crop as possible—it's to grow as much food as possible. Follow along as I share the successes, failures, harvests, and lessons learned from building a productive backyard food garden. #gardening #vegetablegarden #growyourownfood #broccoli #gardenplanning #foodgarden