“Welcome” Chinese Flowering Shoots & Leaves (Red-stem)

This is a new variety we have chosen to complement the green Tsoi Sim above, which is so popular with everyone. It is a fantastic oriental vegetable grown for its flowering shoots, used like sprouting broccoli, but much quicker to grow. This variety has been chosen for its red-purple stem colour.

Use both in salads and cooked. Whole plant is edible – harvest flower shoots and leaves all in a bunch when it starts to flower.

Normally you sow it in late summer, but very early in spring under cover may be worth trying as well.