Cauliflower - Cut 'n' Come Again

[smallblueplanet]

These look interesting, not seen them before, has anyone tried them? Can you get seeds as these are plants?

cauliflower plant cut-n-come again

[Protea]

SBP - looks like its a no to the seeds, it says this under the description: "As this variety of vegetable is not on the EEC Approved Vegetable Seed List we are only able to supply these as plants"

It looks a bit like a sprouting cauliflower (like sprouting broccoli)? perhaps try a white sprouting broccoli alongside to see what the difference is. Seeds of this are easy to get hold of.

[veg4681]

Could that be 'Broccoli - 9 star perennial' or cauliflower??? Chiltern seeds may sell them but their site takes like eternity to load up so I have no patience (plus its veg search is too advanced for me, no patience there either ).

[zazen999]

Hi
No offence to the nursery, but I bought some of these last year, 5 I think were in the batch. Absolutely rubbish; even with all the extremely successful brassicas that grew last year. I had one the headed up, to about the size of a 50p piece, and then promptly went greeny purplish grey within a day or two. The plants went in in last April, and i took them out 2 weeks ago.
Actually, all of the stuff from that nursery, plants and seeds; were rubbish - none of the plants did anything and none of the seeds ever germinated - at all . So, i don't use them anymore.

[smallblueplanet]

ta zazen999 I might have been tempted to try, but I'll give it a miss and stick with 'mini' caulis.

[zazen999]

No problem...I'll be doing the same this year.

[veg4681]

Hi
No offence to the nursery, but I bought some of these last year, 5 I think were in the batch. Absolutely rubbish; even with all the extremely successful brassicas that grew last year. I had one the headed up, to about the size of a 50p piece, and then promptly went greeny purplish grey within a day or two. The plants went in in last April, and i took them out 2 weeks ago.
Actually, all of the stuff from that nursery, plants and seeds; were rubbish - none of the plants did anything and none of the seeds ever germinated - at all . So, i don't use them anymore.

Thanks for your feedback, sure useful to know as I've never ordered from them before.

[Cutecumber]

As far as the plant is concerned, I imagine that it is like "nine star perennial" which is a broccoli really, rather than a cauliflower - it produces several heads over a long period. These are older, more traditional varieties which would fit in with this company's raison d'etre.

It isn't exactly cut-and-come again as you might know it - they don't re-sprout from the same place, but sprouts mature in the leaf axils at different times.

That's what I think, anyway

[Snadger]

Could that be 'Broccoli - 9 star perennial' or cauliflower??? Chiltern seeds may sell them but their site takes like eternity to load up so I have no patience (plus its veg search is too advanced for me, no patience there either ).

It deffo aint Nine Star Perennial which have numerous tennis ball size caulis.

Looks like a white variant of PSB to me!

[rustylady]

Definitely not what we all recognise as cauliflower (one large white head). You can "cut and come again" with all sorts of cabbage type plants, but once you have cut the main head you will only get smaller (still tasty and tender) sideshoots. As far as I know you can never cut a large cauliflower or calabrese head and expect to get more of the same size off that plant.

[Tiny Allotment]

Cut and come again Cauliflower

I am interested in introducing more perennial vegetables to our allotment so jumped at the chance to grow cut and come again cauliflower.

These apparently produce around 10 tennis ball sized heads on each plant and should remain productive for up to 5 seasons.

However I have heard bad reports of these plants and was wondering if anyone on here had had success with them.

At the moment we have 5 plants each about 100mm high which we are going to plant in different situations around our plot to see how the do

Paul

[Jay-ell]

Came across this old thread

http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...ain_11433.html

[veggiechicken]

Is this Nine Star perennial? I have a few seediings that I'll be planting out soon. Never grown them before but I think Snadger does.

Snadge.......are you listening?

[Snadger]

Is this Nine Star perennial? I have a few seediings that I'll be planting out soon. Never grown them before but I think Snadger does.

Snadge.......are you listening?

Hellooooooo...............

Yep, i've grown them before. They get a bit straggly and the caulis have a yellowish tinge but are quite tasty. A bit of a novelty methinks and mine lasted about three years before being consigned to the compost heap. You still need to keep them covered at all times as the pigeons love them.

[Tiny Allotment]

Very interesting

I heard the same thing about them ie didn't work.. I have bought some so I will see how they go. I am going to plant them in a variety of situations and I may even try them in the aquaponics system when it is up and running

paul