My sprouting broccoli leaves.

[Wren]

I take it the leaves from my srouting broccoli can just be cooked up and eaten as spring greens once the plants stop producing yummy broccoli spurs?

Wren

[peanut]

Yes indeedy and jolly yummy they are too!!

[jacob marley]

Why not do as i do i eat the leave's mixed with the heads as well you just have to break the heads of a bit longer jacob

[piskieinboots]

well now .....following my non-sprouting white sprouting broccoli ... I am enjoying 'spring greens' each and every supper at the mo

[Two_Sheds]

What's a broccoli leaf? The pigeons have stripped mine

[Flummery]

Mine are looking drop dead gorgeous at the mo. In fact I was thinking of using a few in next week's flower arranging class!

[Wren]

Thanks for all the replies and i have been eating a mixture of the heads and smaller leaves Jacob, just wanted to check afor i ate the whole rest o the plant too .

i had forgotten about yours piskie..lol

Wren

[Gwen11ian]

I tried out some purple sprouting broccoli.. it's been in a windowbox style pot since August of last year. The plant never produced any broccoli, either not enough room for the roots or some other issue about being in a pot. I was planning on ripping it out and using the pot for something else this spring.. never realized I could eat the leaves! I don't feel that I've made a complete waste of my time now, and pleased that some use will come out of it after all.

[lettucegrow!]

I'm cooking sprouting broccoli and the leaves as I type to go with my smoked haddock.Despite the marathon growing time needed I think it's worth it and have sown seed for next years crop at the weekend.

[piskieinboots]

.....Despite the marathon growing time needed I think it's worth it and have sown seed for next years crop at the weekend.

hence I will only be growing it on lottie this year - last year I planted it in small veg plot in house garden ...and if it dunny sprout I'll blow the blighter away and feed it to the pigeons!!

[lettucegrow!]

Or the bunnies they love it just as much!

[SMS6]

Considering some of us were contemplating pulling our PSB out only the other week because it wasn't producing anything. I for one am so glad I didn't. I picked a load today. Weighed it (yes I know sad that isn't it) and there was over 1kg.

[jaykay]

I planted out some white and claret sprouting broccoli plants too late last year (about end Sept - plants bought by mail order) and they look like small plants at the moment - about 30cm tall. If I leave them in, when should I expect them to produce the spears to eat? Will this become a "summer" crop?
Thanks for any advice.

[Two_Sheds]

I tried out some purple sprouting broccoli.. it's been in a windowbox style pot since August of last year. The plant never produced any broccoli,

PSB is a big, hungry plant that needs really firm soil. It's really not suited to a windowbox.