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  • Does this mean the cauliflower has bolted?

    Several of my cauliflowers aren't growing the "traditional" cauliflower heads you expect from them. Since this is my first time growing cauliflowers successfully i'm not sure whether this is natural or not?

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    That head is what I would call blown. i.e it has had a " conventional" head or curd and has gone past. It most certainly has not bolted. To bolt is to throw a flower head prematurely.

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      Originally posted by Aberdeenplotter View Post
      That head is what I would call blown. i.e it has had a " conventional" head or curd and has gone past. It most certainly has not bolted. To bolt is to throw a flower head prematurely.
      Is it still edible then?

      Also, do cauliflowers only produce the one head, or do they produce smaller ones once picked like broccoli do?
      If not is it a case of picking the leaves to eat and composting the rest of the plant?

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      • #4
        You could eat that but it'll be a bit tough and not really very nice. There are some caulis that will grow more than one head but mostly it's just one. No problem with eating some of the smaller leaves.
        Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
        By singing-'Oh how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade,
        While better men than we go out and start their working lives
        At grubbing weeds from gravel paths with broken dinner-knives. ~ Rudyard Kipling

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        • #5
          Try eating it Leedslad. The worst thing is it could taste strong - it will never become young and white again - so give it a go! Nothing to lose and a cauli to gain!

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          • #6
            Leave one a bit longer and you will get pretty yellow flowers followed by seed for next year!
            Gardening requires a lot of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. Lou Erickson, critic and poet

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            • #7
              I am not sure if it is the same as for brussels but when they blow it can be because of not having a firm bed and lots of wind rock stressing the roots, just a thought.
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