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    Sprouts you’ll like!

    Sep 22, 2020 4 minutes

    SOW: MARCH -JUNE

    PLANT:MAT-AUG

    HARVEST: MUCH OF THE YEAR

    Broccoli is one of those must-grow crops, valuable for its many health benefits as well as its flavour... and the fact that it can be harvested early in the season when most other veggies have yet to get going.

    There are several types you can grow – green sprouting, white sprouting and the most colourful of all, purple – and by choosing different varieties and sowing times you can stretch the harvest through much of the year.

    Sprouting broccoli produces tender shoots and is usually sown from March to June in the year before harvest. This makes

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