Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: Allotment 38a on October 10, 2021, 11:28
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I transplanted early sprouting broccoli to the bed in the first week of July and it's grown really well. However I'm surprised to now find that 2 of the plants have already got fairly big heads and shoots of broccoli on them. I wasn't expecting this until next year. Is this right or has something gone a bit wrong?
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All of my Early Sprouting grew enormously tall and went to seed in September. It is not meant to be ready for harvest until late winter/ early spring. We got hardly any broccoli to eat; I wont be growing this variety again!
Where did you buy your seeds? I suppose that it might possibly be seed supplier rather than species causing the problem :unsure:
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Thanks, I'm hoping that the remainder is ok. To be fair what has grown looks ok just wrong season. I got the seeds from a local garden centre, the brand was Mr Fothergills.
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GP - mine did the same, all went to seed after growing tall. :(
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as yet our broccoli is looking ok its a white variety called burbank I was a bit concerned when i seen some caterpillars on it but after spraying the crop several times that finished of the caterpillars and the plants seemed to get over the slight damage caused
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Our PSB has a problem with loads of holes all over the leaves, and they're far to leggy.
I planted them in a shady place, so that explains the 'legs', but there aren't any caterpiller in sight, and no pigeons.
I guess I've got it wrong badly this time around...