Brussel Sprout Long Island Improved
Brussel Sprout Long Island Improved. Excellent self supporting stocky semi-dwarf variety with leaves closely spaced, producing large numbers of 1 inch closely packed tight sweet sprouts on the short 24 inch plants. Heavy set of firm sprouts over a long season. Good for the freezer.
Cultivation Advice Brussel Sprout Long Island Improved
- For an early crop start seeds indoors in the earliest part of spring.
- Or direct sow seeds outdoors in late Spring after last frost.
- Cover seed with 1/8 inch fine soil.
- For a later fall-winter crop, sow seeds directly outdoors or start indoors by midsummer.
- Keep soil moderately moist during germination.
- When seedlings are 2 inches tall indoors, thin to 2 inches apart or transplant to individual pots.
- Transplant seedlings outdoors after hardening off, when danger of serious frost has passed.
- Space plants 18 to 24 inches apart in rows 2 to 3 feet apart depending upon available garden space.
- Brussels Sprouts grow best in a sunny location with fairly rich well drained compacted soil.
- Harvest sprouts from bottom of plant up as heads mature.
- Do not grow in same area of garden where members of cabbage family were grown the year before.
