Top quality varieties, professionally grown, delivered at just the right time and in perfect condition for growing on in your garden, allotment or greenhouse, with complete, easy-to-understand growing hints. You will be impressed by their quality and the speed with which they establish and grow after transplanting, giving you the satisfaction of home grown vegetables. Broccoli, Purple Sprouting (220 days) Brassica oleracea Purple Sprouting broccoli has become a bit of a sensation here at Pacific Northwest Farmers markets. Despatches will begin in September for immediate planting. As for our summer range, all are grown at our nursery, in their own cell of compost, and have been selected for their flavour and reliability.
PURPLE SPROUTING BROCCOLI SEEDLINGS FULL
The solid heads of Aquiles are tender and delicious, highly resistant to downy mildew too.įollowing on from our summer cropping range, our autumn and winter cropping varieties will ensure you have a tasty and delicious selection of vegetables to harvest from autumn through to next spring. Mostly used for sprouting, but once full maturity is reached dark purple heads will form. We have cut the central heads in the first week of April and side spears 10 days later in the poly tunnel. So while you have no broccoli heads, at least growing the plant wasn’t a waste either. High in nutrition as well, the leaves can be sautéed, stir-fried, or added to soups. If you still have no head on your broccoli, eat the leaves. You may just need to wait a little longer.
*Transplants suitable for organic growing.Calabrese Aquiles is an over-wintering calabrese which will yield a tasty and reliable crop as early as April in the tunnel. Some broccoli matures anywhere from 55 to 70 days. You should enjoy several week of cropping time. If you start the seeds indoors, do so one month prior to when you’d like to transplant them outdoors. If sowing outside, sow thinly in rows 15cm apart at a.
It can be sown outside in a seed bed or inside in module trays. Once you’ve created a garden plot for this crop, you can decide which method is your best option based upon your gardening experience and needs. Sprouting broccoli should be sown in May. When to harvest: Wait until the plant starts sprouting in spring, then harvest individual spears as they appear. Sprouting broccoli can be started indoors or direct sowed. Planted in late summer and left to overwinter in the field, plants. It is uniquely suited to growing regions with mild winters, like the PNW, where temperatures don’t drop below 15-20F on average. As they get taller, earth them up or stake them so that they don’t get knocked over in strong winds. Purple sprouting broccoli (PSB) is a vibrant and nutritious crop that can be overwintered in the maritime climate of the Pacific Northwest (PNW). They are frost/snow hardy and can be grown outside quite happily.
They will grow quite quickly while the weather is relatively warm in autumn, and then will slow down in the colder months, picking up again as the weather warms up in spring. Planting/Growing Advice: Plant in autumn approx 40cm apart in raised beds, traditional veg patches or in pots and planters. The latest of the late sprouting broccolis, Summer Purple broccoli seeds begin producing spears the summer after planting - from June to October if kept. Please see FAQs for up-to-date delivery info. In the kitchen: Try stir-frying purple sprouting broccoli with a little garlic and chilli or boil/steam for just a few minutes so that the florets become tender.ĭelivery Info: Available to order now for delivery between September and mid/late October. You will receive a growing guide with the plug plants. You can expect to then enjoy harvesting the broccoli spears for several weeks, usually into May when you can pull the plants up to replace with a spring planting. This delicious variety of purple sprouting broccoli will produce fantastic coloured broccoli spears during late winter and early spring, possibly as early as February if mild.
Easy to grow, beautiful colour and fantastic flavour
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