F1 Rudolph (late)

Description
One of the earliest to crop from all the late varieties on the market and our personal favourite here at Gardeners Kitchen. They produce good yields of medium to large, tasty, great quality spears with a good purple colour and have an exceptional taste, much better than the limp and bitter ones you can pick up from a supermarket.

Harvest
November to March (when the spears are well formed but before the flower buds have opened.)

Growing Instructions
Plant 60cm apart in sheltered but sunny position in well drained soil. Keep well watered until established and in dry weather. Remove the central spear to encourage lots of side shoots. Must protect them from the cabbage white butterfly.

Calabrese and Broccoli - what’s the difference? Supermarkets, for whatever reason decided to swap the names around. So we just wanted to help clarify what’s what. Calabrese are smaller plants that will produce a large green crown/heads, they are grown from spring to early summer and crop the same year. Broccoli or sprouting broccoli is typically an over winter type that produces large plants with lots of small heads/florets/purple spears. These are grown from late spring to late summer and harvest from late winter to the following spring.