Broccoli cabbage - varieties and hybrids

Broccoli, which is more appreciated not for a special taste, but for the benefit , it is not so difficult to grow. However, unfortunately, it still does not enjoy much popularity among land owners. And this despite the variety of varieties and hybrids of broccoli cabbage! However, for those courageous truck farmers, who still decided on such a "risk", we will tell about the best varieties of this culture.

Early varieties of broccoli

Early in the broccoli are considered varieties, in which the heads ripen for 70-100 days. One of the most popular varieties of broccoli is "Tonus", whose head of fine taste qualities of dark green color ripens on 70-90 days. The following varieties and hybrids are also popular:

• Vjarus;
• Comanche;
• Linda;
• Vitamin;
• Tribute;
• Laser F1;
• Corvette F1;
• Summer King.

Medium-ripening varieties and broccoli hybrids

Varieties of broccoli, which ripen on 105-130 day, are considered middle-ripening. Perhaps the most famous among them can be attributed Genoa, a hybrid of Arkady with large heads, and a dwarf with excellent taste. The best among middle-ripening varieties of cabbage broccoli are also:

• Atlantic;
• Montone F1;
• fruitful Green Favor F1;
• Calabrese;
• Monterey F1;
• Fortune;
• Caesar.

Later varieties of broccoli

Late-ripening varieties of broccoli, whose heads mature, as a rule, on 130-145 day, are popular with gardeners and owners of dachas to a lesser extent. This, of course, is understandable, the heads of these varieties usually contain fewer vitamins. And they can not boast of gorgeous taste qualities, unfortunately. But they are convenient to use for conservation, because they keep up closer to the autumn. Nevertheless, they are successfully grown, for example, the Romanesco variety, characterized by high yield and an unusual spiral shape of the head. Late-ripening varieties also include:

• Marathon F1;
• Lucky F1;
• Continental;
• Fiesta.