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Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: jimmytheshed on April 04, 2010, 14:59

Title: psb
Post by: jimmytheshed on April 04, 2010, 14:59

Mine have only just started to sprout, they went in a little late, and are only 1ft high. another plot holder left theres in all year last year and are 3ft high, and have loads of white and purple sprouting. anyone else leave theirs in?

Title: Re: psb
Post by: LivvyW on April 04, 2010, 20:41

I have 9 plants that i have nurtured for a year! About 6 of them were looking really promising.

They have been thrashed by weeks if not months of snow. They look really sad, but I refuse to give up.

They are trying to sprout, and i am prepared to give them every chance to do so.

I love PSB

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Post by: Siouxfly on April 04, 2010, 20:45

Excuse my ignorance but what is psb?
Can you tell I'm a newbie?

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Post by: DavidT on April 04, 2010, 20:46

Purple Sprouting Broccoli.

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Post by: Elcie on April 04, 2010, 21:00

Picked the first of mine today!

Title: Re: psb
Post by: MoreWhisky on April 04, 2010, 21:37

Still waiting (

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Post by: LivvyW on April 04, 2010, 21:55

Oh good i'm not the only one then!!

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Post by: sunshineband on April 04, 2010, 21:57

I have one tiny purple sprout at the school plot  :D :D

let's hope the rest get the idea now -- it's nearly time to sow next year's plants  :lol: :lol: :lol:

Title: Re: psb
Post by: tosca100 on April 05, 2010, 09:47

I'm still waiting. I will leave it in till I really need the space. Had kale for dinner yesterday though, that has suddenly got going, sweated the last of the leeks and added the kale for a minute...delicious! :)

Title: Re: psb
Post by: jimmytheshed on April 05, 2010, 14:26

Thank you for the replies, but what i mean is the plot holder put theirs out in 2008, got a small harvest 2009, then let them grow all year 2009, and are now harvesting loads in 2010. sorry not being exact in the 1st place

Title: Re: psb
Post by: MoreWhisky on April 05, 2010, 21:23

Quote from: jimmytheshed on April 05, 2010, 14:26

Thank you for the replies, but what i mean is the plot holder put theirs out in 2008, got a small harvest 2009, then let them grow all year 2009, and are now harvesting loads in 2010. sorry not being exact in the 1st place

so you are saving leave them in for a real good crop for next yr, never heard that before anybody else heard of this? i could leave them in i suspose if they dont come to much this yr.

Title: Re: psb
Post by: digalotty on April 05, 2010, 21:53

i think my neihbour plotter leaves his in  :)

Title: Re: psb
Post by: Salmo on April 05, 2010, 23:49

PSB will just run to flower and then die if you leave them in.

You can get everlasting broccoli which produce small cauli like heads each year. Is that what your neighbour has?