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  • Anyone Harvesting PSB yet?

    Mine's looking healthy, but probably a few weeks away. Spoke to my local veg farmer last night, an she's picking already.
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    Been picking mine since December. Only have 1 plant left now thanks to the snow though.

    Mine is an extra early variety though. Edit; oh and HUGE.
    Last edited by chris; 09-02-2011, 01:36 PM.

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    • #3
      Mines only about a foot high at a stretch! I think i got it in too late and the snow took me from 10 healthy plants to 3 with no leaves then the wind had another blown across the garden so I've only 2 left does anyone know if they will still produce anything as they are going to take a while to get big enough?
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      • #4
        Originally posted by chrismarks View Post
        Been picking mine since December. Only have 1 plant left now thanks to the snow though.

        Mine is an extra early variety though. Edit; oh and HUGE.
        Do you know the name of it? sounds brilliant I would love some for christmas dinner next year, I am growing purple sprouts and purple spuds this year so could have a purple themed dinner lol
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        • #5
          Mine are still tiny but very healthy looking, been held in suspended animation for weeks because of snow and severe frost. Same as last year, they'd been in all winter and I think we picked the brocolli in May! but it was worth waiting for.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by fruitylou View Post
            Do you know the name of it? sounds brilliant I would love some for christmas dinner next year, I am growing purple sprouts and purple spuds this year so could have a purple themed dinner lol
            Yup, Purple Sprouting Xtra Early - T&M's I think.

            I think I have seeds if you'd like to try them first of all?

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            • #7
              Mine are still vertical and look healthy ( big improvement on last year) but no signs of anything to pick yet.........
              S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
              a batch of jam is always an act of creation ..Christine Ferber

              You can't beat a bit of garden porn

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              • #8
                Mine are also only a foot tall and puny
                All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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                • #9
                  Mine are pretty healthy looking and I think they're on the verge of thinking about sprouting. Although I love the stuff I'm still eating lots of cabbage at the moment and tend to prefer the PSB after that has finished. Have tried a couple of while sprouting this year too but one of those doesn't look too good after the snow so will have to see what happens with that. I found last year that just 4 plants fed me and OH for weeks they produced so much but they didn't start until late and were still going in June which was a bit of a pain as I wanted the ground for something else

                  Some of us live in the past, always talking about back then. Some of us live in the future, always planning what we are going to do. And, then there are those, who neither look behind or ahead, but just enjoy the moment of right now.

                  Which one are you and is it how you want to be?

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Alison View Post
                    ........ I found last year that just 4 plants fed me and OH for weeks they produced so much but they didn't start until late and were still going in June which was a bit of a pain as I wanted the ground for something else

                    OMG I have about 24 plants........ Does it freeze ??
                    S*d the housework I have a lottie to dig
                    a batch of jam is always an act of creation ..Christine Ferber

                    You can't beat a bit of garden porn

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                    • #11
                      We grow 3 varieties and usually get a meal or two every week from around January to May. I think they are Extra Early, Late and Redhead PSB. On the whole not a great year for the PSB so far - pickings are down on previous years, guess the earlier cold spell messed with it though we got a few meals from the Autumn Spear Brocolli in January this year - the bitter cold must have held it up!
                      Jiving on down to the beach to see the blue and the gray, seems to be all and it's rosy-it's a beautiful day!

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                      • #12
                        I freeze ours binley! It's nice

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                        • #13
                          Mine started croppin november I think - weird. Did the same last season. This year the snow killed it. It was beyond salvage. Maybe I need to try a hardier variety.

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                          • #14
                            This is the first year I've grown it I've got 4 plants & mines about 3 weeks away from cropping. I love it slightly boiled with parmesan grated over it then popped under the grill to brown.

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                            • #15
                              Mmm, that sounds lovely. I like it with stilton.
                              Real Men Sow - a cheery allotment blog.

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