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for the second year running, my crop has grown tall and leggy, and some plants have actually fallen over.

Does anyone stake theirs ? i thought of wooden supports and tied up with string ?

Yes you can do this no problem, next year try planting them a bit deeper you can put them in as far as the bottom leaves.

Hi Ricardo, I stake mine with slate battens and string as soon as they are big enough, but I also plant them in a shallow trench so that I can earth them up in winter as we are on a very windy site. hope this is of some help

Mine have got the sprawl... but after they have done the buis. they will be on the compost heap so what the hell...
;D

Mine got blown over in the storms, I staked them now (should have done it sooner).

But there is no sign of any curds yet, whats happening with everyone elses?

ate the first of my purple sprouting broccoli for Christmas dinner tasted wonderfull, and still coming well at the mo.

mine arent sprouting yet either... all my brassicas seem to be taking ages to 'go' though they are def bigger than a few weeks ago.

Mine were not sprouting either at the weekend & yes falling over and they look like umbrella's now they are staked, a long stork with no leaves below the bush and a bush on top. Shouldn't I have taken so may leaves off? they were leaving others in the shade and also going yellow. All new to me only my first year.

mine aren,t sprouting yet either. I never seemto get the support right but still get a good crop from my sprawley plants
margaret :)

have you checked the ph of your soil?

no I didnt........... what a twonk

All ours were SO spectacular earlier, as posted, but then they all fell over.

Grew a foot or so horizontally & then up 4 feet. NOT good!

BUT - we have hope?

They will still taste wonderful.

They do!

yours looks a little better than mione tim, having tillered more shoots from
the bottom, mine is more of the umbrella as memtioned earlier.

But i must take some tops off, as im sure it stimulates a lot more growth lower down as in your plants.

thanks

ric

Don't know about that - just take the shoots as they are long enough - like 3-4". Not like Calabrese, where you take off the head.