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This is juicier and milder in flavour than most of the brassica family and as such is one of the few vegetables that nearly all children will eat. In the fields, it can take a little frost but lacks the hardiness of our native broccolis, and needs more sunlight. The UK season conventionally runs from late June to November but the early crops are hard to keep growing without nitrogen fertiliser (which, as organic growers, we don’t use), and the very late ones tend to have poor flavour, so for us the season lasts only from August to late October. Through the winter, calabrese for the UK market is trucked up from Spain in huge quantities. We may occasionally buy it in the depths of winter, but where possible I prefer to use cape broccoli and romanesco in early winter and purple sprouting through late winter and spring.