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More by accident than design, we planted out some romanesco plants in the last week of Aug..They were among some winter caulie plants..
We were looking among the winter caulies on Saturday here's what we found.
Despite all the cold wet weather etc they had grown well ...
So it looks like we could grow romanesco as an early winter veg. Even as an additional veg for  the Christmas dinner. These seeds were sown late June...

That looks remarkably healthy.  Well done you!   :)

G x

Oooh, looks fab!!

:)

wow they look fab!we got some seeds from france,had we known we coulda sowed them so late,we wouldve tried.well done you!

Lovely Jim, I love them but don't have a lot of success.  Will my 'all the year round' caulis survive this frost as they all have lovely little heads on them?!

Never had any success with Romanesco, or cauli in general, so am very jealous!!
E-J it should be OK but a bit of fleece will help at this time of year. Purple Cape stands out without protection in Derby, my most successful cauli!  :-[

Fingers crossed then saddad, could have a cauli with out chrissy dindins.

Watch it like a hawk, Jim - don't let it go blousy!

they are a wonderful veg to eat and grow really easy on my plot and i do nothing special :)

will be growing them for first time this year on my new allotment (yeah !!) so lets see what happens !!!  ;D

Ooh - I spotted one of these in the veg shop at the weekend for the first time and will be trying it on Christmas day as a novelty. How do you cook it?
Becky

we steam ours, same as calabrese and broccoli  :)