Growing Broccoli

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10 Mar 09 Barb (Australia - sub-tropical climate)
Tamera you should cut off the flowering head - you'll still get other smaller broccoli around it. Broccoli is simply the flower head that had not yet flowered. It tends to taste a bit bitter when the yellow flowers are out, so it's best to harvest your broccoli before it flowers. Cutting the the broccoli heads encourages more broccoli to come. So don't leave the flowers on the plant or it may stop producing broccoli.
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