Spigariello Broccoli is also known as Minestra Nera. Instead of heads, these plants produce broccoli-flavored leaves and tops over a long season. The more you cut, the more you get! Pick them as needed for soups, stews, stir fries and salads.

Plant in July, harvest until hard frost, then reap and enjoy the vigorous late winter and early spring growth until hot weather. Unusual Italian heirloom whose demand escalates quickly as chefs, and now gourmet cooks request it from their growers.

65 days

Approx 100 seeds per pack

Planting Instructions

Indoors: 6-8 weeks before last frost sow seeds 1/4 - 1/2" deep into peat pots to germinate in 10 days at 70 F. 2-3 weeks before last frost transplant seedlings into garden, 2 ft. apart, in rows 2-3 ft. apart.

Outdoors: In early spring sow seeds 1/4" deep in sun & rich soil, spacing as above. Sow outdoors in spring, and again in fall in mild climates. Harvest main heads while still compact and lateral side-shoots until killing frosts occur.