Hi, Can someone please tell me what is this PSB that keeps cropping, pun intended, up in various replies? I'm new here and its very confusing. That said its a wonderful site.
Cheers Alison
What is PSB????
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Keaniebean
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Re: What is PSB????
Hello welcome to ish. 
PSB is the shortened version of Purple Sprouting Broccoli. A rather tasty vegetable available through the winter. Very cheap to grow but stupidly expensive to buy.
I hope that helps.
PSB is the shortened version of Purple Sprouting Broccoli. A rather tasty vegetable available through the winter. Very cheap to grow but stupidly expensive to buy.
I hope that helps.
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Re: What is PSB????
Is it easy to grow and when should it be planted? It's one of my very favourite veggies!
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Our youngest son was very disappointed when we first grew PSB. He couldn't work out why the plants were so quiet. He'd thought it was Purple Shouting Broccoli! :D
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Kids are great...my youngest was 20yrs old before he realised that everyone was NOT singinging about "old annes iron" at new year!
The cockerel makes the noise, the hen produces the goods!! anon
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That's cute!! I must admit, when I was little I thought the chorus of the hymn "Give me oil in my lamp" went "zinga zanga" instead of "Sing hosanna" We have chosen it for our wedding, hopefully everyone will get the words right! 
We have chosen it for our wedding, hopefully everyone will get the words right! -
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Re: What is PSB????
Shouting veg, I like the idea of that. He He.
I'm going to look for seeds and try to grow it here. I've seen seeds for green sprouting brocolli but not for purple. Is it always called that or does it have other names that it might go by. I've noticed that what we call one thing in OZ has a different name in UK or US etc.
Cheers Alison
I'm going to look for seeds and try to grow it here. I've seen seeds for green sprouting brocolli but not for purple. Is it always called that or does it have other names that it might go by. I've noticed that what we call one thing in OZ has a different name in UK or US etc.
Cheers Alison
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Re: What is PSB????
keep an eye on it though, when it's planeted out over the summer you'll need to make sure it's free of pesties until it's big enough to cope on its own. a large caterpillar can decimate a small brocolli plant in a day.
from: person sat with a cup of tea watching her 12 psb plants enjoying the rain.
from: person sat with a cup of tea watching her 12 psb plants enjoying the rain.
oh how I love my tea, tea in the afternoon. I can't do without it, and I think I'll have another cup very
ve-he-he-he-heryyyyyyy soooooooooooon!!!!
ve-he-he-he-heryyyyyyy soooooooooooon!!!!
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solarwind
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Re: What is PSB????
Always wondered as a child why the "warmer morial" seemed just as cold as everywhere else.
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What is PSB?
Bloody Horrible......
Bloody Horrible......
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Re: What is PSB????
Unless you're a pidgeon.
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gregorach
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Re: What is PSB????
Well, you've got early PSB and late PSB... I grow early PSB over winter, so that it starts sprouting as soon as the weather warms up and gives you something early in the year when very little else is around. I start it in modules sometime around August for planting out in September. It's no harder to grow than any other brassica, but since it's around when little else is, it's a favourite for the pigeons - keep it netted.Shirleymouse wrote:Is it easy to grow and when should it be planted? It's one of my very favourite veggies!
Cheers
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