Calabrese Green Sprouting Broccoli – 100 Seeds

Calabrese Green Sprouting Broccoli (Brassica oleracea var. italica) Seeds. This fast growing sprouting broccoli will delight you with its truly prolific yield of tender heads and side-shoots. Very frost hardy. This Italian Calabrese sprouting broccoli produces a non-stop crop through the late summer, autumn, and even through much of the winter. It grows up to 60cm tall and produces a main head up to 17cm in diameter. But the best part of sprouting broccoli is the side shoots which produces small heads, which can be harvested after the main head has been cut.

Growing Calabrese Sprouting Broccoli

Indoor Sowing: Late Summer, Early Autumn and Mid Autumn.

Direct Sowing: Late Summer and Early Autumn.

• Direct sow or start your Broccoli seeds in trays.
• Sow the seeds on the soil surface and cover them with a layer of soil.
• Keep soil moist until germination.
• Plant seedlings out as soon as they are large enough -typically, after 6 weeks.
• Space plants an average of 50 cm apart. Always water plants well after planting.
• Always plant Broccoli in a sunny spot where they get at least 6 hours of sun a day.
• Mulch around your Broccoli plants will ensure favorable soil temperatures and keep them nice and moist.
• When watering Broccoli make sure to water the plants deeply and around the base of the plant. Avoid getting water on the heads of your plants, this will attract pests.
• Half way trough their growing season fertilize your Broccoli with a Nitrogen rich fertilizer to encourage healthy growth.
• A final top dressing with compost when your Broccoli heads are about 3 cm in diameter goes a long way in the final development of the heads.