I was excited today to make my first harvest of broccoli from the allotment. It is the Calabrese type, which is meant to form a dense head but a couple of the plants had decent heads of spears and I didn’t want to risk it ending up flowering. I think that was a good call and I was able to cook it up and enjoy it as I would ‘sprouting broccoli’.

I’m also interested to see if the plants that I decapitated will form new heads later in the season. It will still be a worthwhile crop even if they don’t but, if I can get more than one harvest from each, that will be even better.