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Broccoli
Brassica oleracea var. italica
An Italian selection of cabbage grown for its unopened flower — a green you eat before it becomes a yellow bouquet.
Flavor
Green, faintly cabbage, nutty when roasted. Overboiled is sulfur and surrender.
In favor
A second crop of side shoots
Against
Heat makes it bolt to yellow flowers
Days to harvest
55–80 days from transplant
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