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    I have three small cauliflowers battling with some enthusiastic courgettes and pumkins in my overcrowded veg patch. But they're a nasty brown colour. Someone told me this is a boron defficiency. What the hell is boron and are they are a gonner or is there anything I can do?

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    Like on this piccie?
    1/2 way down??

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    • #3
      Cauliflowers turn brown on exposure to sunlight - that is why folding leaves over the curd is advised - I have found that they go rather bitter when they start going brown so have taken to chucking them away...
      Whooops - now what are the dogs getting up to?

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Nik View Post
        ...............What the hell is boron and are they are a gonner or is there anything I can do?
        Boron - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

        You DID ask?

        Cauliflowers usually darken to a pinky colour if exposed to light. I had brown cauliflowers last year and it was caused by slugs & snail activity on the surface. The light problem is easily solved by bending over some of the outer leaves! Stopping slugs and snails is a little more complex!
        My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
        to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

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        • #5
          Hmm, well they don't have many leaves - that may be part of the problem. They don't look very tasty at all, I don't think we'll be eating them.
          I guess they're just more sensitive to soil deficiencies than other veg - either that or it is a result of overcrowding.

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