Broccoli
Broccoli (stems) or Calabrese (heads), whichever you want to grow - we've got the seeds and guides to help you. Typcially a slow growing crop that thrives in cool temperatures, just watch out when the florets start to form they can go from being almost harvest ready to bolting in the blink of an eye. Sounds tricky, but if you time your harvests right you'll adore the taste.
Brussels Sprouts
Love them or loathe them, Brussel Sprouts, are the quintessential british winter veg, representing our Christmas Dinners almost as much as Turkey and Pigs and Blankets. Like all brassicas, Sprouts love cool weather, and they have a long growing time, so be prepared to give up space to them for much of the year. Resist the tempatation to harvest before they've been touched by frost, the flavour improves immeasurably.
Cabbage
If you choose your varieties of Cabbage carefully you can be harvesting them the whole year.They come in a range of different colours, shapes and with different leaf textures. They can be shredded in salads, added to stir-fries or mixed into soups. Cover over your plants with a fine mesh netting to deter butterflies from laying eggs, caterpillars munching them and pigeons swooping down for a feast.
Cauliflower
Plan your varieites and sowing times right and you could be enjoying cauliflower all year round, in fact the varieity All The Year Round is one of our bestsellers! Typcially a slow growing crop that thrives in cool temperatures, just watch out when the heads start to form they can go from being almost harvest ready to bolting in the blink of an eye. Sow regularly for sucessional harvests, no-one needs 17 caulis ready to harvest 1 week in August!
Kale
Easy-to-grow Kale, with its superfood qualities, is a must-have in your home grown vegetable garden. Despite being a brassica, it's relatively pest free, so whilst the cabbage whites might lay eggs on and devour your Cabbage and caulis, Kale is usually untouched aside from white-fly living under the leaves.
Kohl Rabi
Until you grow it ,Kohl Rabi is one of those veg you don't know you need in your life. A fairly easy and quick-growing vegetable, the ball shaped stems, have a mild flavour similar to broccoli or turnip. A member of the Brassica family, Kphl Rabi is quite decorative, with fleshy green or purple globes growing beneath green or purple leaves. Cook it or grate it raw into salads, even the leaves are edible – eat them steamed like spinach.
Swede
Although a member of the brassica family, Swedes are grown for their delicious roots, rather than their leaves. Many confuse them with turnips, and although the two are related, swedes are much sweeter and hardier, and can be harvested later in the year.
Turnip
Turnips may be a bit of an old fashioned veg, but small, young turnips and their green leafy tops are secretly gourmet vegetables.They're one of the less troublesome members of the Brassica family to grow, and should be grown quickly and kept well watered. Harvest them before they get too large for the best flavour. The smaller the roots, the sweeter they are.
Brassicas to grow from seed
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Brussel Sprouts, Long Island
Regular price £1.45 GBPRegular price -
Broccoli, Summer Purple Sprouting
Regular price £1.65 GBPRegular price -
Broccoli (Calabrese), Ramoso
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Cauliflower, De Purple F1
Regular price £2.15 GBPRegular price
