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["Lisa K.V. Perry" <lisakvperry AT gmail.com>]

I cheated and bought broccoli plants to transplant. The year that I grew
broccoli from seed a few years back it was a miserable failure and I've
finally got the nerve to try broccoli again.

I want to give the broccoli plants a good start. I know they need collars
(toilet paper tubes cut up?) to avoid cut worms. These plants are a good 6
or 7" tall and the stems are half the diameter of a pencil. Do they still
need collars at this size? Soil amendments?

Also, the information I read about potatoes said to put some pine needles in
the ditch w/ the potatoes. We have those around, do you guys do this?

Thank you.

Lisa