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Old 26-06-2010, 11:02 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Bob Hobden Bob Hobden is offline
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Default Purple Sprouting Broccoli flowering already



"Eurofeeds" wrote
"Bob Hobden" wrote
"Eurofeeds" wrote ...
I bought a few PSB plants from the Garden Centre as I had left it too
late to sow. About 1/3 of the plants are flowering now - presumably I
might as well throw those away?

Cut the flowers off and they should sprout some more.

Are you saying they will sprout again next spring?


No they will sprout in a few weeks if you cut the flowers off. It's like
dead heading a rose, the plant wants to reproduce so produces a new flower
and it's the immature flowers we eat.

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Bob Hobden
W.of London. UK