Tracy, I just don't know enough about your weather other than it is very hot and dry. Conditions that broccoli doesn't like. The trick to making good sized heads with broccoli is to get the plant large enough before hotter weather signals it to head. We too sometimes have those middle of the winter heat spells and the young broccoli will start heading and the results are almost nothing fit to eat. The same thing happens when we go from winter to summer in a matter of a week or two. This year we are actually having a real spring and the broccoli are loving it; but it should be over very soon. I usually set out broccoli plants two or three different times during the fall and winter and hope one or more of them will hit it right.
Bill
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