Flower Sprout - Seeds

An exciting NEW Vegetable variety: The Flower Sprout ™

We are constantly striving to bring you the best in vegetable breeding and when we first saw the exciting new variety 'Flower Sprout' at trials 4 years ago, we knew then that we had to have it!

Flower Sprout has taken 10 years to develop and for enough seed to be available to offer to our customers.

It has been bred by crossing curly kale with brussels sprout to create a brand new vegetable.

It has a sprout-like plant habit, a tall stem with little purple and green rosettes (looking like miniature cabbages) forming all the way up to a frilly-leaved top. The purple colour intensifies as the weather turns colder.

Flower Sprout is extremely winter-hardy, with a similar cropping time to sprouts but with a flavour more like spring greens.

The loose buttons are easy to pick and is an ideal winter vegetable, it can be steamed, stir-fried or microwaved.

Quantity 30 Seeds
Catalogue Code 1020-2640

Growing Calendar for Flower Sprout - Seeds

Sow Indoors

Sow Outdoors

Plant Outdoors

Harvest

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On 19/01/2012 Sheena Hatton wrote:

Rating:5

These grew very well with very little effort or attention. They also didn't seem to attract the pests like regular sprouts and no risk of them 'blowing'. Easy to harvest and no need to peel or score them before cooking, and very tasty! My son and I are a sprout lovers, but my husband isn't and yet he liked these - they definitely look more attractive on a plate.

On 26/08/2011 Mrs Sheila Varley wrote:

Rating:5

Thank you so much for Flower Sprouts. I grew them very successfullyfor the first time last winter. Not only do they tolerate my rather dry clay garden, in amongst the herbacious bed, they seemed resistant to both catterpillars and aphids. Above all, the odd plant which escaped the spring clear-up produced lovely sprouted spears, which did better than my purple sprouting brocolli. I have recommended them to my friends and they are now a permanent fixture on my garden plan. Thank you, Sheila

On 09/04/2011 Paul Weston-Smith wrote:

Rating:4

The main advantage of flower sprouts is that my daughter who hates sprouts (and peas) will eat them. They germinated well and the plants looked good in the veg patch, quite majestic in fact. They survived the hard frosts in our garden. The yield per plant is not as good as standard sprouts but we are growing them again this year.

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Pick loose mini cabbages all through the winter.

Sow Indoors: February-April thinly, in clean trays or modules of firm pre watered compost. cover with ¼in (½cm) of sieved compost. Place in warmth 15-20°C (60-70°F) and keep moist at all times.

Sow Outdoors: Late March-April thinly ½in (1cm) deep in a seed bed or clean module trays of firm pre watered compost. Keep soil moist at all times. Protect from frost.

Thin Out: 4in (10cm) apart.

Plant Out: May-June into the required harvest position 24in (60cm) apart with 24in (60cm) between each row.

Harvest: November-April

Protect from Cabbage White Butterfly with netting.

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