Summer Purple Sprouting Broccoli is a specially bred variety for summer cropping that offers high yields of delicious purple flowering spikes with regular picking. This variety is ideal for gardeners looking for a fast-growing crop, as you can harvest it in the same year it’s planted, typically from July to November.
- High Nutrient Requirements: To ensure healthy growth and a bountiful crop, it’s important to keep the soil well-nourished, as broccoli has high nutrient demands. Adding compost or a balanced fertilizer can help meet these needs.
- Soil Care: This variety thrives in slightly alkaline soil. Adding a bit of garden lime before planting can improve your results, promoting stronger growth and better yields.
- Protect Your Crops: Pigeons love sprouting broccoli and can quickly decimate your plants if they’re not protected. Use netting to keep these birds away, ensuring your hard work pays off with a rich harvest.
With Summer Purple Sprouting Broccoli, you’ll enjoy an abundance of sweet, tender purple flowering spikes that taste far superior to supermarket produce. Plus, the quick turnaround from planting to harvest means you can enjoy fresh, homegrown broccoli all in one growing season!
Planning your site
Brassicas need deep, firm, moisture retentive soil and like to be planted in a sunny site whether grown in raised beds or a well dug veg patch. We would recommend giving your Brassicas up to 45cm between them as they can get quite big (which is how we like them isnt it!)
Growing tips
When you plant your brassicas, a really top tip is to put a 10cm diameter circle of old carpet or cardboard on the soil around the stem. This is known as a brassica collar and it will protect your Brassicas from the dreaded Cabbage root fly. Regular watering is very important during dry spells and you do not want your plants to dry out in general. Use a liquid nitrogen feed once they’ve started to produce new growth.
What to watch out for
Cabbage White Butterflies are a beautiful but terrible scourge of brassicas! They lay eggs on the plants which soon become very very hungry caterpillars which will decimate your crop unbelievably quickly. If you see white butterflies flitting around then shoo them away or even better, make sure your brassicas are well netted. This will also deter pigeons which are another major problem for good brassica growth. Flea beetles attack Swedes and Turnips though Radishes are the worst affected. Whitefly may cover brassicas and great clouds of them will fly up when the leaves are disturbed though they don’t do too much damage on the whole. Cabbage Root Fly and Club Root infection are major problems for Brassicas and we recommend that you familiarise yourself with the symptoms and management procedures if you are growing these plants.
What to do when your plants arrive
- Unpack them. Your seedlings will arrive carefully packed in bio-degradable straw, cardboard and paper. They may look a little bit bedraggled from their journey. Don’t panic – this is totally normal and they should soon perk up. Please try and unpack your plants as soon as they arrive, as every extra hour they spend in the box will add to the stress of travelling to their new home.
- Give them a drink. Having spent a day or two in the post, your new plants will be thirsty! Stand them up in some fresh water for a few minutes to make sure their roots have been thoroughly soaked before planting.
- Plant them out into their forever home! Your plants can’t wait to get their roots into the soil. Plant them out according to the instructions that will have come in the box with them. Make sure you water them in well, and give them plenty to drink until their roots have had a chance to get settled.
Substitutions
As you well know, plants are unpredictable creatures and so is the British weather. As such, we reserve the right to substitute items in your order for an equivalent variety. To find out more about substitutions, please take a look at our terms and conditions.
Delivery
We charge a flat shipping fee of £6.99 per shipping season. If you order everything from one season ie Spring you will be charged once, if you order Spring and Summer you will be charged twice etc. We do not ship outside of the UK.
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