Vegmonkey and the Mrs.

Hooray!

I find them to be the most difficult thing to grow for a number of reasons. They take a while to grow from seed to food, the slugs absolutely love them at a number of stages and they hate having a check in growth.

So i went to our very local garden centre and bought three plug plants for 20p each and planted them about 30cm apart in a row in our Brassica bed. Whoever said that they need a metre between plants, has never had the benefit of raised beds! All three of the caulis have matured at the same time, but that’s not a bad thing…seasonal veg is what it’s all about.

Now i said i couldn’t grow cauli’s, but that is not strictly true anymore due to a couple of our friends who moved from a house to a flat, gifting us a couple of propagators with lids, in the process. I planted some ‘Romanesque’ seeds and ‘Lateman’ into the soil, and covered it with the lid. This has enabled me to plant some decent sized cauliflower plug plants straight into the space where the caulis have just come out.

Two cauliflower crops in one season…that ain’t half bad! They are sat in the fridge ready to be devoured!

Tags: harvesting cauliflowers, successional planting