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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: Digeroo on October 01, 2013, 08:41:32

Title: Calabrese Romanesco
Post by: Digeroo on October 01, 2013, 08:41:32
Planted these out in April and about 1/3 cropped quite quickly end June and to my great surprise have produced side shoots, about 1/3 are cropping now.  But 1/3 have become huge without flowering, do you think they will produce or will the frost kill them off?
Title: Re: Calabrese Romanesco
Post by: manicscousers on October 01, 2013, 08:42:32
Hope so as ours are the same  :happy7:
Title: Re: Calabrese Romanesco
Post by: antipodes on October 01, 2013, 12:56:18
I would say that if they didn't give heads of broccoli at the same time as the others, there is a problem...? But they are actually very hardy so you can leave them to their own devices maybe?
Title: Re: Calabrese Romanesco
Post by: PAULW on October 01, 2013, 13:07:42
The frost will not kill them they stand quite well through the winter, as with all cauli's can be frustrating little sods.
Title: Re: Calabrese Romanesco
Post by: Digeroo on October 01, 2013, 16:44:08
I have in the past found that the frost finishes them off.   My plot is very windy so the frost seems to get to brassicas.  I have to have my purple sprouting well hidden behind water butts and old sweet corn.   I am hoping that curtain netting might help.

I have never got a cauli through the winter.

We are a long way from the sea so it we get very bad frosts.
Title: Re: Calabrese Romanesco
Post by: realfood on October 01, 2013, 18:50:33
They are certainly not hardy in Glasgow. Only the hardiest of the brassicas will survive in the normal Winter.