[Carmen7878]

Hi all,

I am a new user here and in my second year of veggie patching!

I planted some broccoli plug out before Christmas, they stayed in all over the winter and during the recent nice weather are now huge. I am pretty sure that I should have done something else to them/with them but I have just left them to their own devices ...

All I have got at the moment is massive leafy plants ...is this to be expected or should they have flowered by now?

[gobs]

I suspect you planted them out a wee bit too late, say a few months.

I'm not sure it's worth keeping them as they just bolt on summery temps. Whilst using nutrients from your soil.

I'd lose them and use land for summer crops and do them sooner this season.

Welcome, by the way.

[Carmen7878]

I suspect you planted them out a wee bit too late, say a few months.

I'm not sure it's worth keeping them as they just bolt on summery temps. Whilst using nutrients from your soil.

I'd lose them and use land for summer crops and do them sooner this season.

Welcome, by the way.

Oh Noooooooo :shock:

[DD.]

My brocolli plants for next year went in yesterday.

[woodburner]

Do you mean plugs you bought? Or did you sow them yourself?

Plugs are normally sent at the right time for planting out, so I'm a bit puzzled.  :?

[Carmen7878]

Do you mean plugs you bought? Or did you sow them yourself?

Plugs are normally sent at the right time for planting out, so I'm a bit puzzled.  :?

I bought them at the garden centre and planted them out in my raised bed - this was oct/nov time. Nothing much has happened since then, except now I have huge leafy plants.

You can see them from last month here http://www.photobox.co.uk/album/46305116 at the bottom of the larger bed.

[muntjac]

eat the leaves like cabbage and then crop the top leader out this will bring them into flower spikes feed some sulphate of ammonia also 1/2 tsp to a plant water in   let them grow on and on and you can crop them during the summer for fresh greens before the other stuff is ready