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Broad beans and cauliflowers

Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2015 7:44 pm
by Catherine
Today I picked 3.5 kg broad beans before shelling and had 790g beans. I have also picked 10 cauliflowers heads which are all ready at the same time, they are F1 seeds. Next year I won't be sowing F1 seeds because I didn't realise that they will all be ready at the same time, silly me. I want them ready at different times. This happened last year but I didn't click about the seeds.

Our dwarf beans and climbing beans are really slow to get going this year.

Re: Broad beans and cauliflowers

Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2015 6:34 pm
by WestHamRon
Catherine wrote:Today I picked 3.5 kg broad beans before shelling and had 790g beans. I have also picked 10 cauliflowers heads which are all ready at the same time, they are F1 seeds. Next year I won't be sowing F1 seeds because I didn't realise that they will all be ready at the same time, silly me. I want them ready at different times. This happened last year but I didn't click about the seeds.

Our dwarf beans and climbing beans are really slow to get going this year.

Why don't you plant them in succession rather than all at once?

Re: Broad beans and cauliflowers

Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2015 6:52 pm
by Catherine
WHR I do sow in succession, this year I sowed these 10 seeds, not expecting them all to come up. But they did and I have a problem with throwing seedlings away :oops: So I put them all in, closer than the recommended spacings and then sowed some more of a different type of cauli. These are coming ready at different times so they are okay. (I have another 10 caulis getting ready to pick)

Last year I grew a Cauli called Cheesy F1 they have been the best cauli I have ever grown. They were all immaculate, perfectly shaped cauliflowers and all 8 were ready together.

I am not complaining as I just freeze them anyway. I was just saying !