Are you ready to enjoy the convenience of a perennial, low-maintenance broccoli that provides a bountiful harvest year after year, while also adding a delicious and nutritious touch to your culinary creations? Look no further than our Perennial Broccoli ‘Nine Star’ Plug Plants. These remarkable plants not only grace your garden with their enduring beauty but also provide you with a source of inspiration for creative and healthy dishes. Here’s why these plug plants are a must-have for gardeners and food enthusiasts:
Garden Growth Guide:
Cultivating Perennial Broccoli ‘Nine Star’ is a breeze with our plug plants. Here’s how:
- Perfect Position: Plant them in a sunny area with well-drained soil for optimal growth and flowering.
- Adequate Spacing: Provide enough space between plants to accommodate their mature size and to allow proper air circulation.
- Low Maintenance: Unlike annual broccoli, ‘Nine Star’ is perennial, meaning it will return each year without the need for replanting. Simply keep the area free of weeds, and it will reward you with harvests season after season.
Harvesting Abundance:
As your Perennial Broccoli ‘Nine Star’ plants mature, they will yield a continuous supply of broccoli florets. Harvest when the florets are firm, green, and fully formed. New shoots will emerge, ensuring a consistent supply.
Culinary Creativity:
Perennial Broccoli ‘Nine Star’ is not only easy to grow but also versatile in the kitchen. Here are a couple of culinary ideas:
- Steamed Broccoli with Garlic and Lemon: Steam ‘Nine Star’ broccoli florets until tender, then toss them with minced garlic, a drizzle of olive oil, and a squeeze of fresh lemon juice. It’s a simple and delicious side dish.
- Creamy Broccoli Soup: Create a velvety broccoli soup by blending ‘Nine Star’ broccoli florets with onions, garlic, vegetable broth, and a touch of cream. Season with salt and pepper for a comforting bowl of soup.
- Broccoli and Cheddar Stuffed Potatoes: Bake potatoes until tender, then scoop out the flesh and mix it with steamed ‘Nine Star’ broccoli florets and cheddar cheese. Fill the potato skins with this mixture and bake until golden and bubbling. A perfect side or light meal.
Perennial Broccoli ‘Nine Star’ Plug Plants offer the joy of consistent harvests year after year while providing a versatile and healthy ingredient for your culinary masterpieces. Order now to enhance your garden with these enduring plants and elevate your dishes with their delicious and nutritious broccoli florets.
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 1m between them as they can get quite big (which is how we like them isn’t it!)
Growing tips
Plants can grow up to a metre tall and wide so leave plenty of space between them. They will need staking once mature. 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
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