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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: STEVEB on August 30, 2008, 20:14:27

Title: broccoli
Post by: STEVEB on August 30, 2008, 20:14:27
spears were starting to form nicely !!!one week on there all going straight to seed !!!what should i do?cut out the midlde one and see what happens?i had planned to let a couple to seed for saving but not the whole lot!!!
Title: Re: broccoli
Post by: Kingfisher on August 30, 2008, 22:41:56
Quote from: STEVEB on August 30, 2008, 20:14:27
spears were starting to form nicely !!!one week on there all going straight to seed !!!what should i do?cut out the midlde one and see what happens?i had planned to let a couple to seed for saving but not the whole lot!!!
Sorry to hear that STEVEB but I think that has happened to alot of people this yr including me, I have 2 Broccoli plants left now and hoping that they will carry on to grow something edible, I have found that doing a nettle manour and putting it on the veg is realy good, tried it on my broccoli it has perked them up alot
Title: Re: broccoli
Post by: manicscousers on August 31, 2008, 09:28:45
we cut the middle ones out of 3 a couple of a month ago as they were shooting, now getting nice-sized shoots  :)
Title: Re: broccoli
Post by: STEVEB on August 31, 2008, 21:28:17
thanks manic ill give that a try