Its Purple Sprouting Broccoli season on the allotment, and we have loads of it!
This has to be one of those crops that are really worth growing. It takes a little patience as the seeds need to be sowed a whole year before harvesting. Once in the soil however, the seedlings can be pretty much left to their own devices and yet still always produce an abundance of broccoli at the following spring.
I visited the Brooklyn Flea Market during my final weekend in New York. Having never been to a flea market before I wasnt quite sure what to expect. I mean I obviously knew there would be stools selling antiques and nick-nacks, but when I walked through the iron gates to the market I was very excited. There were hundreds of books to flick through, boxes and boxes of goodies to delve through and old style maps everywhere. Every stool told a story I could have been there all day rumaging though each stool.
