Everwilde Farms - 500 Green Sprouting Calabrese Broccoli Seeds - Gold Vault Jumbo Bulk Seed Packet

This richly flavored open-pollinated Broccoli variety is popular with home vegetable gardeners! Green Sprouting Calabrese Broccoli seeds grow quickly and produce 4" heads with abundant side shoots, which can be harvested after the main head has been cut. Maturity time is not uniform, resulting in an extended harvest for home vegetable gardens! Though heirloom Calabrese broccoli comes from the province of Calabria in Italy and arrived in America in the 1880s, the plant from which modern broccoli is derived first grew in the wild in the Mediterranean region and in Asia Minor. Broccoli gradually spread to the rest of Europe and to the New World, where Thomas Jefferson included this strange new vegetable in his experimental garden. The Italians appreciated it so much that it got the name "Italian asparagus." After World War I, Italian brothers Stefano and Andrea D'Arrigo brought their Sicilian variety of broccoli and began growing it in San Jose, Calfornia; they later shipped it to Boston's North End, where it established a quickly expanding market.