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Harvesting the first of the PSB

Monday, February 18, 2013 9:30
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This is the high point of the gardening year for me – time to harvest those long-awaited first tender shoots of Purple Sprouting Broccoli.

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PSB is a vegetable that doesn’t store very well once cut, so it never seems very nice when you buy it in a shop. This is probably what makes home-grown PSB so rewarding, despite the fact that it takes an absolute age to grow (approximately 10 months).

Today’s harvest was not big, but it will be much appreciated.

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This is the central head and the first few side-shoots from one of my three “Rudolph” plants. Cutting the whole central head like this will force the plant to put its energy into side-shoots now.

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Jane is going to use this broccoli in a dish that involves pasta, walnuts and Dolcelatte cheese. Sounds good to me!

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I’m entering this post to Daphne’s Harvest Monday – an ideal way to show off one’s harvest to like-minded gardeners all around the world.

To read more articles like this, on Gardening and Gastronomy, please visit * http://marksvegplot.blogspot.com/ *



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