{"id":311,"date":"2010-06-10T23:13:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T22:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gsu.eventmedialabs.com\/?p=311"},"modified":"2015-07-20T23:14:56","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T22:14:56","slug":"life-cycle-of-purple-sprouting-brocolli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greensideup.ie\/life-cycle-of-purple-sprouting-brocolli\/","title":{"rendered":"Life cycle of purple sprouting brocolli"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_OvxlUzzvECE\/TBFhS7lwS-I\/AAAAAAAAAPg\/bGmkjDBktms\/s1600\/flowering+psb.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_OvxlUzzvECE\/TBFhS7lwS-I\/AAAAAAAAAPg\/bGmkjDBktms\/s400\/flowering+psb.JPG?resize=400%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" border=\"0\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>Just a few\u00a0pics of my purple sprouting brocolli.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I planted a few varieties into a seed bed last year, labelled them all, then moved them into their final beds only to lose all the labels.<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_OvxlUzzvECE\/TBFiugEwnSI\/AAAAAAAAAPo\/x7ZhVdQ9iBA\/s1600\/psb+april.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_OvxlUzzvECE\/TBFiugEwnSI\/AAAAAAAAAPo\/x7ZhVdQ9iBA\/s320\/psb+april.JPG?w=940\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>They&#8217;ve taken a long time to grow&#8230; they survived the relentless onslaught of\u00a0caterpillars (they weren&#8217;t netted) and for a while there in February I thought we might have lost them to the hard winter.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_OvxlUzzvECE\/TBFgpE_i39I\/AAAAAAAAAPY\/hHMGM1X1gwA\/s1600\/psb.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_OvxlUzzvECE\/TBFgpE_i39I\/AAAAAAAAAPY\/hHMGM1X1gwA\/s320\/psb.JPG?w=940\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>However, I resisted pulling them up and so they bloomed for us for weeks.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Now\u00a0they&#8217;re prettily flowering so are ready to be pulled up and composted making way for the carrots, swiss chard\u00a0and celery.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>So thank you for the magnificent harvest purple sprouting brocolli of un-named variety.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a few\u00a0pics of my purple sprouting brocolli. 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