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Old September 26, 2018   #37
agee12
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I expect the brassicas (broccoli, brussels sprouts and kale) to be slow growers but mine are growing very, very slowly. I doubt if I have more than four sets of true leaves. I am not worried about the kale because I am growing for leaves and that will happen eventually, but I was hoping to get a harvest of broccoli and brussels sprouts in by December or January. Personally I don't mind them over-wintering but I've read that the flavor is better if the mature vegetable has been hit by a frost. Also I got harvestable broccoli this past spring, but I am 0 for 2 with brussels sprouts and it is looking like I will be 0 for 3 with the only hope being that I planted a different variety of brussels sprouts so maybe this variety of will head up before bolting.


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Originally Posted by GoDawgs View Post
These are the things I'll be planting this fall:

Broccoli, Packman - I'm still working on trying to stretch out the planting so that I'm not hip deep in broccoli one week and have none afterwards. It's for fresh eating only (no freezing) so this fall I'm growing twelve plants and starting three plants every ten days. The second set of three got started yesterday. When the heads are gone there will be plenty of sideshoots.

Cabbage - Stonehead (which will make first) and Charleston Wakefield (which will finish a bit later). Four plants of each were started Jul 21

Collards, Vates - Three plants were started Jul 21. For just two people, I've found that four plants each of collards and kale are too much so just three this time. Maybe two of each in the spring if three are too much. I give away the excess.

Kale, Premier - Same as the collards

I quit growing bok choy as it is a huge flea beetle magnet.

Agee, what's your secret for brussels and cauliflower? Sure wish I could grow both but have had no success with either despite multiple tries. The brussel plants grow fine but the little heads never tighten up. And I finally read that my cauliflower failure is due to temp fluctuations. Too many warm spells popping up during head formation.

Non-cole stuff: field peas (planted yesterday), scallions, onions, garlic, bush beans and a few more tomato plants (already going), carrots, daikon and other radishes
Sorry I did not respond to this earlier. I have not had success with brussels sprouts and this is my first year growing cauliflower. I got germination with the cauliflower but I have to look at my labels to see if it is still alive. I got good survival last year with my broccoli seedlings, I planted Calabrese, but this has not been a good year for broccoli in terms of germination and survival.

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