[Oliveview]

The cabbage plants I bought last November time have all gone to seed- there were 12 plants and not one has got a heart- I looked at them this afternoon and the ´heart´was really a seed head coming on each of them   Now if you knew just how much I loved cabbage, you can understand I am really upset- cabbage is my fav. vegetable- I´d choose cabbage over a bit of steak any day :happy:
The 12 broccoli plants turned into 11 cauli and just 1 broccoli and the cauli is, touch wood, ok (fingers crossed)  I have eaten a few of the flowers as they are fist size and they have been lovely.  But what went wrong with the cabbage???
Pamela

[sunshineband]

Was the ground around them really firm?

[Oliveview]

I honestly can´t say if it were firm or not- it wasn´t dug over once the plants were in.  The soil is quite ´sandy´ here.  I had trouble last year with cabbage not growing too.  The first year I was here I planted cabbage seed and grew my own- I even had to move them when the builder started work early and I only lost one to seed!
Pamela

[mumofstig]

maybe something to do with the spell of bad weather you had....might have stressed them and made them run to seed

[sunshineband]

Mumofstig has a point -- stressed plants do run to seed (Makes me wonder about us humans, too ....

[Jay Dubya]

Hi, sounds to me that those cabbages are caulies. November is awfuly late to plant a cabbage, but a caulie going in then would overwinter and start a small sedhead now.

[Stripey_cat]

What about overwintering for spring cabbages?  My money is probably on the sandy soil being too light and dry for them.

[Salmo]

Are you growing local Spanish varieties? If you are trying to grow with UK varieties it is probably too warm through the winter.