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| Thread ID: 118691 | 2011-06-17 02:09:00 | My first brocolli plant | Nomad (952) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 1209869 | 2011-06-17 04:12:00 | You can eat them when they are fresh as against several days old so they will taste better for that reason too. :thumbs: |
John H (8) | ||
| 1209870 | 2011-06-17 04:24:00 | We grew them about 4 or 5 months ago. They are McGregor's Broccoli De Cicco Small Garden Packs. We did see the Shotgun variety but they were more expensive than ours. The largest broccoli plant hasn't even got one head yet :p The leaves are still so tight around the head area.. We also have Snowpeas waiting, they were planted a month after our brocolli. They have flowers now but no snowpeas yet. It is Wellington so they have been blown around so they are not exactly tall of the soil. We water regularly and add plant food - the bone and blood stuff and newer soil (that come with food). |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 1209871 | 2011-06-17 07:08:00 | Your broccoli look like brocollini - you sure you didn't get the punnet mixed up? :p :D | Jen (38) | ||
| 1209872 | 2011-06-17 09:27:00 | The first (and previous) time I tried growing broccoli (from seed), the same thing happened as Nomad. I left them to keep growing and the head just became more separated instead of the nice tight ball that supermarkets stock. A couple of months back I bought some seedling broccoli and planted in our glasshouse. This time they appear to be doing a lot better and developing a nice tight head. Not sure what factors make this happen? Was planning to leave them a bit longer, but now that temperatures are dropping down here I might just harvest them. |
Johnnz (7246) | ||
| 1209873 | 2011-06-17 09:45:00 | TThis time they appear to be doing a lot better and developing a nice tight head.. Cauliflower does the same type of thing. Some years they just about open up straight away others develop a nice tight head. Not sure why. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 1209874 | 2011-06-17 09:51:00 | Stink the caulis in the supermarket look so perfect, the bug eaten off white small headed caulis we grow dont even rate. Garden does a mean Brussels sprout though | prefect (6291) | ||
| 1209875 | 2011-06-17 10:28:00 | Years ago my father could grow excellent carrots and parsnips in his garden and the neighbour could grow excellent caulies and cabbages so they always traded. | mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 1209876 | 2011-06-17 12:08:00 | LOL well we grew some cool zucchini this year, and some sad looking tomatos, and brocoli that didnt do well. and some celery, chives and we were trying to grow corn, but my lawnmower we had was at the right height to eat them, she thought they was yummy........she ate my apple tree, and the cherry and a couple of newly planted shrubs too... my son had been looking forward to his corn for ages... we plan on doing more veges next season, sadly our passinfruit and our grapes just couldnt or wouldnt move from the day we planted them...... and yes then the lawnmower stood on them or ate them....:waughh: beetle:D |
beetle (243) | ||
| 1209877 | 2011-06-17 20:51:00 | It's very fortunate that the mower is not an electric one then, with all that shocking behaviour. | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 1209878 | 2011-06-17 20:56:00 | It is winter now. Plants know this. You can plant in autumn to harvest in winter, you can plant early for late spring too, but in Winter the plants will either sit and do nothing (like my silverbeet) or go to seed. But that's OK - yours is edible and home grown so of course it will be delicious. |
pctek (84) | ||
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