Spring Broccoli?

If you have never heard about "Spring Broccoli" you are not alone, I never had either. But there waiting there in my garden when I went out to get the soil ready for planting my vegetable seeds was a broccoli plant full of florets ready for the picking. The first of the year I went out to the garden to pick, what I thought was, the last of the fresh broccoli. But with our mild winter the plant did not die as usual during the winter. I may not add broccoli to what I consider "spring vegetables" but this year my family had the unexpected joyed of home-grown broccoli for a spring dinner.