Broccoli and Broccolini

Broccoli – Purple Magic F1
Central Head Variety
Well-domed heads are a beautiful deep purple overlaid on a dark green background with vibrant, bright violet stems.
2024 AAS winner.
It has a beautiful purple color, tight uniform heads and bright beads to its great broccoli flavor, this easy to grow broccoli is also stress and heat tolerant. Excellent broccoli to try growing in cooler seasons. Can be eaten raw, stir-fried, roasted, lightly blanched, or steamed for the best texture, either way, you will find it sweeter and more tender than traditional green broccoli.
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Aspabroc
Sprouting Variety
Known as Broccolini in the produce section of your grocery store and on restaurant menus, resembles a broccoli raab with an asparagus stem, with a mild taste. Easy-to-grow. After first maturity of the central shoots, plants will set 3 to 5 shoots shortly thereafter and continue for about 4 weeks in mild weather

Brazilian Sprouting Priacicaba
Sprouting Variety
A non-heading broccoli, this plant is large, productive, heat and cold tolerant. Harvest the flower shoots stem and all, and it will continue to produce more. Named for Piracicaba, Brazil, where it was developed, this broccoli has a mild and sweet flavor and is quite tender, even raw. Start seeds anytime and enjoy a long, bountiful, delicious harvest.

Mini Broccoli, Burgundy
Sprouting Variety
This stunning sprouting broccoli has beautiful purple buds and purple-green stems. Easy to harvest because of concentrated side-shoot production and tall, strong plants. Slender stems with few leaves make for easy bunching. Pinching recommended.

DiCicco
Central Head Variety
Heirloom vigorous, light-green plant produces a 3-4" bluish-green central head. After the central head is cut, many medium-sized side shoots take its place for a prolonged harvest

Marathon
Central Head Variety
Traditional variety with familiar heavy heads of broccoli best to grow later in the season. Transplant this one in October! Intermediate resistance to downy mildew and highly tolerant to cold. If it freezes this winter, this broccoli will taste sweeter. After harvesting the central head, gardeners can continually harvest smaller side shoots for salad, stir fry, smoothie and side dishes.

Previously grown at VISTA

Seed packets available from House of the Rising Seed

Seedlings pre-order available from House of the Rising Seed