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Hi, please could you tell me, how do you harvest this and how long will they produce the florets? Many thanks williamt....

It might depend on your variety, but mine are producing the one, large main head now, but after cutting that will go on producing small heads / spears for some time, almost into autumn last year. The quality does drop off though, and the flavour gets gradually a bit more strident I think.

The best time to harvest Calabrese is one or two days before you actually do. I bet we all think the main head will get a bit bigger and usually eat it past its peak, much of the stuff I see in the supermarket is in the same state though!