broccoflower anyone????

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lazzasurf

Joined: 01 Jan 2005
Posts: 30
Location: wolverhampton

Posted: Sun Jun 25, 06 5:47 pm Post subject: broccoflower anyone????
thought it was a wind up when i was searching the net, anyone grow/grown it.? its it 2 birds with one stone?

Bernie66

Joined: 14 Jan 2005
Posts: 13967
Location: Eastoft

Posted: Sun Jun 25, 06 8:06 pm Post subject:
To me its just a large headed calabrese type. There are many colours of calabrese I believe. I have only ever had success with the normal green and only F1 varieties. Comet and Shogun are my favourites.

alisjs

Joined: 23 Jun 2006
Posts: 1497
Location: Conwy

Posted: Mon Jun 26, 06 10:16 am Post subject: romanesco
Anybody grown this amazing looking veg? Ate some last summer...gorgeous nutty flavour. Try searching on google....there`s some good pics.

alisjs

Joined: 23 Jun 2006
Posts: 1497
Location: Conwy

Posted: Mon Jun 26, 06 10:17 am Post subject:
romanesco that is, not broccoflower!

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Mon Jun 26, 06 10:22 am Post subject:
Romanesco is lovely stuff. I'm trying to grow it, but not having a lot of luck so far. First set of seedlings (indoors) died when I pricked them out, second lot (outdoors) were eaten by slugs. Have just sown a third batch - no doubt these will fall prey to the cabbage whites

cab

Joined: 01 Nov 2004
Posts: 32429

Posted: Mon Jun 26, 06 10:25 am Post subject:
Never had much success with either cauliflower or summer calabrese. Got a few good cauli heads last year, and some nice little ones forming now, but my failure rate with them has always been too high. Hoping to solve this with cima di rapa this year, seedlings looking happy (but crowded) at present.

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