Broccoli Seeds - Early Purple Sprouting

This is a fall-planted heirloom broccoli that won't be ready for harvest until spring. Will not produce side shoots until it overwinters, but then look out because you will get a great supply of purple shoots. Remember to keep them harvested. Very frost-hardy purple broccoli. We also eat the leaves over the winter when healthy greens are so hard to find. Just thinly slice them and sautee with garlic, olive oil, a little salt and add a touch of balsamic when removed from the stove. What an amazing addition of color to your garden and a great use of space over winter when most gardens sit empty.

I've heard a few less experienced gardeners complain about the size of this purple broccoli compared to the number of side shoots. I don't find this to be true because we don't grow this broccoli just for its purple heads, but for its leaves as well. It provides a great source of healthy greens to our family and the farm animals when everything else is dead. It also starts heading out well before any traditional heading broccoli could be harvested because it is already established.

Sustainability is about learning to use a variety of plants at different times of the year to provide the nutrition your family and farm need. We do not live in a monoculture, and any successful farm or garden shouldn't be planted as one. A great example is last year, when we got a very late frost that killed most of the heading broccoli, but the purple sprouting and romanesco were unharmed. Our planet is changing. Learn to diversify your plantings, and you will succeed when others fail.

Early Purple Sprouting Broccoli Seeds Per Package:

• 1 g - Wholesale - Approximately 250 Seeds
• 1 oz - Wholesale - Approximately 9,000 Seeds
• 4 oz - Wholesale - Approximately 36,000 Seeds
• 1 lb - Bulk Seeds - Approximately 144,000 Seeds
• 5 lb - Bulk Seeds - Approximately 720,000 Seeds
• 25 lb - Bulk Seeds - Approximately 3,600,000 Seeds
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