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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?

Hope so as ours are the same 

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?

The frost will not kill them they stand quite well through the winter, as with all cauli's can be frustrating little sods.

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.

They are certainly not hardy in Glasgow. Only the hardiest of the brassicas will survive in the normal Winter.