Piracicaba Non-heading Broccoli

This broccolini type has garnered many accolades. About halfway between a heading broccoli and a broccoli raab, these succulent tender small green heads with very large beads make delightful eating, raw or lightly cooked. Very loose heads, lots of side shoots, sweet stalks. Even the fairly large leaves make excellent greens. Alan LePage says sidedressing it in summer yields great cuttings in the fall. Without doing anything except harvesting regularly, Elisabeth’s 2024 spring planting produced a steady crop of florets into October. NY State trialers report it is best as a fall crop with relatively good frost tolerance. Remarkably, it was bred in Brazil in the city of Piracicaba (peer-a-SEE-cah-bah) to withstand heat.