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My PSB has been doing really well & last weekend I found the first buds on it.

So today I popped down to take a look & the buds are in bloom - there are yellow flowers on it :roll:

 

I have obviously left it too long,but can we still use the small bit thats flowered?

 

Hope so - they are huge plants with such a small edible part that it seems that they are a bit of a waste of time otherwise. I have 6 plants & only one has a sprouty bit,& thats tiny :roll::lol:

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PSB has gone to flower very quickly this year - we missed some of ours as well :(

 

One day it was just starting and two days later it was flowering :?

 

We have been eating the leaves as you would cabbage and given the plants to the hens. I would eat it if the buds are just starting Sarah.

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I always thought psb was a much earlyer crop that you planted and left in over winter to eat really early spring. I guess that there is differest varietys that mature at different times. The heads need to be eaten before they flower though. We have tryed eating it when its just about to burst into flower and its a bit chewy!

I have never eaten the leaves. Ill try that.

The chooks usually get the pleasure. :D

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