Broccolini has become a very fashionable vegetable in recent years, often seen on the plates of high-end restaurants and fetching a premium price in grocery stores. But what exactly is broccolini and can you grow this trendy crop at home?
If you grow broccoli in a backyard vegetable garden, you know it has a short season. You get one main head to harvest and then hopefully a few more side shoots will follow. However, the joy with broccolini is that you get a bounty of bite-sized stalks and heads over a long harvesting period.
