How to Grow Cauliflowers - Growing Your Own Cauliflowers
By Richard Allen
Cauliflowers are grown for their centre, the white head in the middle. They are one of the few vegetables that can be grown all year round as long as you pick the right variety for the right season. They can take up quite a large space each due to the size of the leaves so best tried if you have a big bit of your patch doing nothing. (( Soil Preparation Dig the soil very well for several months, rather than weeks before sowing, as they prefer to grow well-consolidated soil, also making sure to dig in plenty of well-rotted compost. When to sow? Start out sowing the seeds in compost in individual 5 to 6 cm pots, sowing them no more than around 1 cm deep. (more...)
