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Can't get the children to eat their greens? Sprouts a rude word in your house? Try these.
By The Newsroom
Published 29th Jan 2010, 13:38 BST
Updated 29th Jan 2010, 13:38 BST

High street retailer Marks & Spencer has hit the headlines with the news that it will be stocking a new variety of vegetable which has been dubbed the flower sprout. But keen gardeners don't have to pay through the nose for the product – they can grow it themselves from seed from Thompson & Morgan.

Petit Posy™ brassicas – and the flower sprout – are a cross between kale and sprouts. Shoppers will pay 1.99 for 160g of the flower sprout, but could grow enough to last up to five months with a packet of seeds costing just 2.99 from T&M.

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Petit Posy™, which is one of the best-sellers in the sprout category in the seedsman's catalogue, is similar in appearance to both sprouts and kale but the flavour and nutritional content is very similar to spring greens – perfect for fussy eaters who don't enjoy sprouts.

Winter-hardy Petit Posy™ can be sown from late March through to early June to crop from mid-November and into the new year.

More information from www.thompson-morgan.com