Da+n!! My Parthenon calabrese was doing so well at around 250g per head, but has now all blown in the space of 5 days. :-[ We started eating them at 1/2 of what their size is supposed to be when I noticed them starting to blow. A lottie friend then produced a head of the same variety at over 2-3x the size of what you get in the supermarket. How enviously depressing.
We picked ours about 2weeks ago and yesterday Tone spotted the side shoots were ready for picking. Only one had blown so we were glad that we had noticed them. It was the same with the cauli last year.
My Marathon & Parthenon, I've been picking them for the last 3 weeks. As usual the Marathon are all ready at once and huge, the Parthenon are smaller and still growing so should last longer. Have just eaten some for tea as a calabrese and tomato cheese with new potato salad....yum! ;D
Quote from: Deb P on July 05, 2009, 23:33:05
My Marathon & Parthenon, I've been picking them for the last 3 weeks. As usual the Marathon are all ready at once and huge, the Parthenon are smaller and still growing so should last longer. Have just eaten some for tea as a calabrese and tomato cheese with new potato salad....yum! ;D
OK OK. Don't rub it in. Making my mouth water here. :P
I grew calebrese from Real Seeds, was initially very disappointed with the size of the heads though it was very early. It then produced about eight slightly smaller heads and a further 8 or so very small heads more like sprouting broccoli. So all in all a very good crop. Anything left has now blown very suddenly. Funnily enough their quick broccoli produced nothing yet at all.