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  • From: Dcimmarr AT aol.com
  • To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Broccollini
  • Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 08:34:39 EST

Broccolini is one of those relatively new hybrid vegetables, a cross between broccoli and Chinese kale or gai lan. It was developed by a Japanese seed company, the Sakata Seed Co. of America in Morgan Hill, Calif., and took about eight years to perfect. Broccolini is also known as asparation - probably intended to hint at an association with asparagus because the vegetable has a small floret at the end of an asparagus-like stalk. This is in a way related to rapini but it is not the same thing. Rapini does not produce the nice slim stalks but rather produces a very, very slim stalk with bunches of leafy material. With rapini, leafy material is cooked with flower stalks whereas brocolini only the stalks are cooked.
I do not know if the seed is available yet as seed was only being distributed to a few select growers in CA
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Denise




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