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Title: Incorrect crop harvest!
Post by: angle shades on November 04, 2007, 21:03:36
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This according to the packet is Romanesco ::)/ shades x
Title: Re: Incorrect crop harvest!
Post by: manicscousers on November 04, 2007, 21:06:38
cor, I wouldn't mind a few of them  ;D
Title: Re: Incorrect crop harvest!
Post by: star on November 04, 2007, 21:10:03
heehee shades......lovely cauli......or strangest romanesco I have ever seen.

Still I bet it tastes good  ;)
Title: Re: Incorrect crop harvest!
Post by: Emagggie on November 04, 2007, 21:16:31
I'd even be happy if my caulis looked like that  ;D
Title: Re: Incorrect crop harvest!
Post by: silverbirch on November 04, 2007, 21:31:31
Maybe it's just feeling a bit "off colour"?  Still a lovely cauli though.  I bet there's a cheese sauce heading in it's direction any minute now.
Title: Re: Incorrect crop harvest!
Post by: powerspade on November 05, 2007, 12:58:24
What a beautiful cauli. A old chap on our allotments told me that if you can grow caulis then you are regarded a good gardener as they can be very diificult to grow
Title: Re: Incorrect crop harvest!
Post by: Lotti on November 05, 2007, 14:24:12
Perhaps its an albino romanesco! ;)
Title: Re: Incorrect crop harvest!
Post by: saddad on November 05, 2007, 14:33:41
That's me put inmy place then Powerspade... never managed a decent drop of Cauli!
:-[
Title: Re: Incorrect crop harvest!
Post by: angle shades on November 07, 2007, 15:27:25
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Look what I found today in the same bed!

I'm a bit confused now, never grown Romanesco before, so how did I get Cauli in the same packet?

thanks for your earlier replies/ shades x
Title: Re: Incorrect crop harvest!
Post by: Squashfan on November 07, 2007, 17:04:35
The mysteries of seed packaging!  ??? Both look good enough to eat, great work!
Title: Re: Incorrect crop harvest!
Post by: cambourne7 on November 07, 2007, 17:37:46
I thought i was growing cabbage and they turned out to be caulis :)

It happens to us all :)
Title: Re: Incorrect crop harvest!
Post by: wildthing on November 08, 2007, 12:44:23
I have a perfect crispy type round lettuce growing in one of my raised beds. It has survived 3 frosts. I grew mixed carrots there. I don't buy lettuce seeds because I hate the stuff. I'm hoping one of my daughters will eat it. The red cucumber seed turned out to be white Crystal Apple, and two lots of tomato seeds did not resemble the picture on the packet in shape or colour. The tomatoes and cucumber seed came from a specialist seed company, who have sent me a £5 gift voucher to spend with them next year. However as 3 out of 4 packets had the wrong seed in, I'm not certain I wish to buy from them again.  
Title: Re: Incorrect crop harvest!
Post by: kt. on November 08, 2007, 21:01:10
I had the opposite - bought some plug plants of all year round caulis beginning of August. They appear to be cabbages, possibly holland late winter. They have a good cabbage head not cauli.
Title: Re: Incorrect crop harvest!
Post by: djbrenton on November 11, 2007, 11:17:30
Some years ago one of my friends visited a seed packaging operation. What he saw was bays of seeds spilling over between varieties. I've had mixed packs and even packs that definitely didn't 'do what it said on the tin'. Last year I found myself growing two lots of cabages instead of one lot of cabbage and one of cauli. Another friend found a few hispi type growing amongst his stonehead.
Title: Re: Incorrect crop harvest!
Post by: Eristic on November 11, 2007, 13:39:46
This is all the more reason to boycott all the major seed firms. They've forgotten what quality control is and simply exist by ripping the punter off. The industry is corrupt to the core.
Title: Re: Incorrect crop harvest!
Post by: cornykev on November 11, 2007, 17:27:57
Are you going to tell us the seed company Wild Thing or is it a secret.  ;D ;D ;D