Greens - Spring Rapini Broccoli Raab Seeds

Grow Spring Rapini from seed, also known as broccoli rabe or broccoli raab. This fast-growing leafy vegetable is related to the cabbage family, but unlike traditional broccoli, it produces tender leaves and multiple small shoots topped with tiny broccoli-like florets.

This early spring variety thrives in cooler conditions and produces a harvest of flavorful greens with small green flower buds. The plants resemble mustard greens, with abundant foliage and small florets that can be harvested together for cooking.

Rapini has a bold, slightly nutty flavor with a pleasant bitterness that is popular in Mediterranean and Italian cooking. It can be sautéed, steamed, or grilled and pairs especially well with garlic and olive oil. Blanching before cooking can help produce a milder flavor.

Spring Rapini Seed Highlights

• Also known as broccoli rabe or broccoli raab
• Fast-growing leafy vegetable
• Produces tender leaves and small broccoli-like florets
• Bold, slightly bitter flavor
• Excellent for sautéing, steaming, and grilling
• Best suited to cooler growing conditions
• Suitable for Tower Garden and other hydroponic systems
• Can also be grown in containers or soil

Prefer to skip germination? Shop our live Broccoli Raab seedlings, grown in rockwool and ready to transplant.

1 gram, which is about 300 seeds.

Broccoli likes cool weather and will head too early in warm temperatures. Harvest the heads before the individual flowers mature and begin to open.

Plant 1-3 seeds per rockwool cube.

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