This produces energy that the baby plant uses to grow. The root begins growing downward and the baby stem begins to curl upward. Soon the plant pushes out of the soil and starts sprouting leaves.

Choose a seed starting mix, not garden soil for your growing media. Garden soil is heavy and may contain weed seeds or even diseases. Seed starting mix is sterile and formulated with milled peat moss, ...

oleracea, which has small broccoli-like florets on thick stems with more leaves than sprouting broccoli. You may also come across broccoli raab, or rapini, a turnip relative whose seed is sold as Cima ...