Kitchen Garden

TOP OF THE BROCS

There are a few vegetables in the garden that come in different guises, but broccoli has to be pretty near the top of the list. Not only can you grow it for sprouts (as in the small seedlings you mix through salads), but you can grow it for large florets like you buy in the supermarket and even as long spears in the form of sprouting or stem broccoli. The fact it has a high vitamin content and has been linked to having anticancer agents, has led to an increase

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