'Marathon F1' Broccoli Plants
The broccoli lover's broccoli!
Grown by Josh
South Downs National Park
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The highlights
- Deliciously tender and subtly earthy
- RHS Award of Garden Merit winner
- Rustle up a broccoli and stilton quiche
- Harvest from September to October
Description
- This award winning broccoli (or calabrese if we're being pedantic about it) is exceptionally reliable, producing dense and large blue-green heads with a beautiful flavour
- Perfect for stir frying, grilling, soups and warm salads
- Grow in raised beds, borders, allotments and large containers
- RHS Award of Garden Merit winner
- Plant out May-June for harvets in September and October. Even when the main head has been cut, the plant keeps producing smaller ones
- Premium brassica plants grown on a family run farm in Lancashire and sent to you at the best possible time for planting
- Growing your own gives you healthy, fresh produce with a lower carbon plantprint than anything you can buy from a shop - and infinite bragging rights
- F1 hybrids combine the best qualities of two top performing varieties to produce a plant with improved vigour and bigger crops
- Easy to grow and care for - you should see your first crop within 10-12 weeks
What to expect
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How to grow
How to grow
Good pest and disease resistance
Like all brassicas, broccoli can suffer from cabbage root fly, club root, caterpillars or whitefly. It is recommended that you cover your brassicas with a garden fleece to prevent them being eaten by pests. To prevent club root ensure that your soil is well draining and not too acidic. Club root is caused by a bacterial infection so if it occurs you should not plant brassicas there again for four years. If you find a plant with club root, burn it with fire to prevent it from spreading to the rest of your garden like some kind of Biblical cabbage plague.
Water regularly
Water your plants deeply - once or twice a week is usually enough, increasing in very hot or dry weather.
Full sun
Grows best in a sheltered spot with full sun, receiving around 6-8 hours of sun every day.
Any fertile, well-draining soil
Thrives in any well-drained soil. If your soil is particularly clay-heavy and/or often becomes waterlogged then you can improve the drainage by adding in plenty of organic matter such as garden compost as well as some perlite or gravel.
Feed every 1-2 weeks
To get well formed heads, use nitrogen rich organic fertilizers such as worm castings or poultry pellets when you plant them and every month after that.
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South Downs National Park
Meet Josh
Slow grown veg from the sunny South Downs
Our vegetable plants are sown on a family farm in Lancashire, then nurtured into strong young plants by Josh in the sunny South Downs before they rock up in your garden. By selecting only the strongest and tastiest varieties, Josh makes sure you get a headstart on your plot, with impressive crops and no waste.
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Specialist UK growers we know and trust grow your plants the traditional way, with organic fertiliser and biological pest control. They pick only the healthiest plants for you, professionally pruning them so that they’ll grow strong and well shaped.
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Your plants are sent to you fresh from the field in our plastic free box that’s specially designed to hold them tight, then securely delivered by specialist plant couriers - straight from the grower to your garden within 
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Planting brassicas
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