Purple "NOT" sprouting Brocolli!

[Earth Nat]

This is the second year in a row that I've tried to grow the stuff but it just doesn't "sprout"! Last year I grew one plant and it just grew leaves and nothing else. By the beginning of June I finally gave up and pulled the monster sized plant up.
This year I grew two plants (from the same seed packet as last year) but the same thing seems to be happening again. No sign of either plant forming any heads.
The plants themselves seem healthy and strong.

Any ideas?

[Odsox]

Any ideas?

No, not really.
The only thing I can say is that a plants aim in life (like everything else) is to produce offspring, and the only way it can do that is to flower and set seed.
So you can be almost certain that it will sprout at some point and if you can spare the space, I would suggest leaving it and see what happens.
If it's a monster plant just think how many spears you will get when it does sprout.

[Green Aura]

Sorry, but PSB - apart from a few early varieties - takes about a year to grow

The PSB we planted last April is in full bloom now, we've been enjoying regularly feeds off it for just over a month now, it's starting to get past it's best now and will be coming out in the next couple of weeks to make way for whatever will follow it.

My Dad used to go mad when my mother planted it because that bit of garden was tied up for so long. I suppose he was right to some extent - they're big plants for a relatively small return.

However you can eat the young leaves like kale - we've been eating them for about 8 months, but not so many as to affect the plant.
And it is a fantastic filler for the "hungry gap". Nothing else tastes so good at this time of year - apart from cheeky boys like Odsox's new peas and carrots

[Odsox]

Nothing else tastes so good at this time of year - apart from cheeky boys like Odsox's new peas and carrots

And broad beans, lettuce, spring onions, tomatoes, cauliflower and wet garlic

[Earth Nat]

Green Aura, it has been in since last spring. I'm convinced it's me! I'm losing my green fingers
Think what Odsox says makes sense so I think I'll leave it where it is for now and see what happens.

[red]

perhaps try a different variety. We have two this year a regular april one, and 'rudolf' which appeared at Christmas

[Green Aura]

You sure you didn't plant kale by accident? Mind even that's flowering now. Sounds like you got a "sterile" batch - or maybe just undersexed

[Peggy Sue]

Yep i'd blame the seeds, apart from the obvious dangers of starting them, caterpillars & white fly they are really so easy to grow!