Vegetable Description: An Italian specialty used in salads and light cooking, Early Fall Rapini produce good yields of broccoli raab. Zesty, mustard-like flavor! This early bolting variety produces tender turnip-like leafy flower shoots that are harvested and bunched just as the first flowers begin to open. Adapted well for early fall planting and winter harvest in the Southern U.S. Plants grow 18 to 24 inches tall.

Vegetable Botanical Name: Brassica ruvo

Other Common Names: Broccoli Raab, Broccoli Rabe, Brocoletti, Cima di Rapa 

Vegetable Duration: Annual

Vegetable Days to Maturity: 45

Vegetable Seeds Per Oz: 11800

Vegetable Height: 18” to 24”

Vegetable Spacing: 24” to 30”

Vegetable Planting: Sow seeds indoors before last frost, or direct sow seeds outside after last frost. Plant seeds about 1/4” under soil surface, with 24” - 30” between plants.

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