I grew some Purple Sprouting Broccoli last year, but, just as I feared, it never made any of its famed, delicious broccoli heads. It did grow to be quite the plant. So I took the greens for eating, chopped the stalk low to the ground and buried it in logs and snow. Here it is after digging it out yesterday:
Thats enough for me to pretend like it is already Spring. And here is an area where Puck and I walked to as the sun set. The plants are mullein gone to seed: