Broccoli Purple Sprouting 1000 Seeds

Tender and tasty A versatile broccoli for summer/autumn production, producing a reliable harvest of tender, fine-flavoured purple shoots over a long period. Healthy young plants, individually rooted in small plugs of compost, ready to plant out. Culture: Full growing instructions included.

Extremely hardy, this well-proven variety provides a succession of delicious tender shoots.

S: All year round (I) H: All year round

Details Sow: March - May H: February - early May Extremely hardy, this well proven variety provides a succession of delicious tender shoots. 500 seeds

The creamy white spears, rather like tiny cauliflowers, have a slightly milder flavour than those of purple varieties.

Fancy picking tasty purple sprouting for up to six months of the year? Then try this blend of specially chosen varieties to give a really long season of use.

Early Purple Sprouting Broccoli Seeds Description:Sprouting Early Purple Broccoli Seeds. S: March - May (I) (O) H: February - April Extremely hardy, this well-proven variety provides a succession of delicious tender shoots.500 seeds

An easy to grow variety, producing lots of purple heads with an excellent flavour during late winter/early spring. The heads will turn green when cooked. Broccoli is high in Vitamin A and Cand a good source of iron.

Position: full sun. Soil: fertile, well drained, moisture-retentive and firm A tall, stately brassica that's easy to grow and hardy enough to withstand the worst of winter, yet produces one of the most delicious winter crops of all. Attractive deep purple sprouts, a little like calabrese, are produced in abundance from early spring, with a delicate flavour and crunchy texture that's perfect lightly steamed or in stir-fries. Sow both early- and late-maturing varieties of purple-sprouting broccoli...

British bred, Claret represents the world's first F1 hybrid sprouting Broccoli. It has all the encumbent advantages; a vigorous habit even on poorer soils, excellent uniformity, and high yields of larger than normal 'spears'. Award of Garden Merit.

Nutritious and delicious all year round.

Featured in "The Day Book of Cockmanning's Nursery" (in Bromley, Kent) in 1777."This is a very excellent kind, of a deep purple colour; if the true sort, it is close-headed at first; afterwards it branches, from whence may be cut numerous small flavour-some purple heads." Sown in April will produce from November to February, sown in June, will produce sprouts in March & April. Heavy & long-bearing plants of excellent flavour. Cultivation: Sowings may be made during March, April, May, June and July...

Cut the shoots when 15cm (6in) long. Harvest regularly to encourage further shoots. 100g of broccoli provides the daily requirement of vitamin C.

Certified Organic. A Black currant and Gooseberry hybrid which produces fruits the size of a small goooseberry with the flavour of a blackcurrant.This plant will be sent bare root between Dec-Feb and in compost the rest of the year.

Cut when shoots are approximately 15cm (6in) long. Harvest regularly to encourage further development. Some plants are ready for harvest earlier than others; first crops are purple only.

Fresh Organic Purple Sprouting Broccoli ~ Local to us ~ pack weight approx 250g

A mix of four top quality varieties designed to provide continuous cropping of purple spears from mid-February through to mid-May.

Our local fruit and veg wholesaler, Pip's aim to provide locally sourced produce whenever possible. What they don't know about fruit and veg isn't worth knowing! Located in beautiful Yealmpton, just a few miles from our shop, they are ideally situated to find the very best Devon produce available.