Open Pollinated - Spring Harvest

Brassica oleracea Italica gp 'Redhead'

Broccoli 'Redhead'

An improvement on traditional forms of 'purple sprouting' broccoli. Produces a more vigorous plant with large primary heads along with good sized secondary shoots for picking over an 8 week period through from March to April.

Brassica oleracea 'Nine Star Perennial'

Broccoli 'Nine Star Perennial'

Tall growing varieties that need spacing about 1m apart. Each plant produces up to ten small, creamy white cauliflower like heads in spring or early summer. Make sure you harvest all the heads to stop the plant flowering. It will then crop...

Brassica oleracea 'Purple Sprouting'

Broccoli 'Purple Sprouting'

220 days. Leave some space in your garden for these extremely cold-hardy, biennial plants which must overwinter before flowering in March/ April. The 60-90cm (24-36 in.) tall plants are covered with smallish, very sweet-tasting purple shoots...

Brassica oleracea 'Red Arrow'

Broccoli 'Red Arrow'

A superb variety for steaming or stirfries. Produces thick, heavy spears of good colour on vigorous prolific plants. An improved selection of this popular vegetable.

Brassica oleracea var. italica 'Green Sprouting'

Broccoli 'Green Sprouting'

Dark green irregular round heads. Medium size.

Cold-weather crop that likes rich, deep, well-drained, moisture retaining soil; pH 6.0-7.0. Water enough to keep soil moist and prevent plant from wilting.

Brassica oleracea 'White Sprouting Early'

Broccoli 'White Sprouting Early'

Apart from the different spear colour the leaves are less frilly and blue-green. Creamy white spears which are slightly milder in flavour than the purple and lighter green when cooked. Late February/ March harvest onwards.

Brassica oleracea 'White Sprouting Late'

Broccoli 'White Sprouting Late'

250 days. The flower buds, at the end of long shoots, are creamy white and appear a week or two after Purple Sprouting has passed its prime, making a fine succession in spring. Start in mid-May. English seed.

CULTURE: For the earliest...