hello friends in today's episode we look at how good a quality cauliflower looks
like versus a bad cauliflower and we give you tips on how to improve the
quality of the cauliflower that you get from your garden so as you can see
here we transplanted the seedlings in January and cauliflower is a cool season
crops so you can grow it either in winter here in Southern California or you can
even grow it in early spring or fall or when the temperatures are low and for spacing
you can see that if you space your plants too closely it does affect the
size of the cauliflower that you get so what you see here is pretty much the
ideal spacing that you can get for cauliflower if you want to plant them
farther apart that's a good idea too and one raised bedI plant about 9
to 16 cauliflower plants and that seems to work well
so let's go ahead and harvest this cauliflower that looks good this will
give you an idea of how your good kind of cauliflower should look like now if you
want more tips on growing cauliflower check out the video on your screen and
that has more tips on growing cauliflower and as you can see here this
cauliflower head looks pretty good and this is a really good sized cauliflower
head and it's important to remember that if you get a lot of leaves and not your
cauliflower head chances are that you cauliflower is buttoning or not
growing properly that's why I want to show you how a really good cauliflower head
looks like after harvest and lets weigh this cauliflower head and see how much it
weighs and as you can see it's four point two pounds now at $3 a pound for
organic cauliflower you're looking at a $12 cauliflower head so you can see how
much value you get by growing your own produce and now let's look at how a bad
cauliflower head looks like now before I continue let me tell you one thing these
cauliflower heads are perfectly edible that is almost similar to the regular
cauliflower head but they don't look the same and this is what I'll be showing
you this is a head of cauliflower plant that has shot 2 seed now this is on the
common problems associated with cauliflower so as you can see here this
cauliflower plant had a problem where it shot to seed and I'd like to know from you if you
experience problems like shooting 2 seed or when the cauliflower plant buttons into a
small cauliflower so why do you end up the cauliflower like this so there are
two main reasons first is the temperatures in the temperatures in your
area are warm the cauliflower plant goes to bolt or shoots to seed and this is what
happens the second reason why you would get a cauliflower head like this is if
there is a very high nitrogen content in your soil
so if you had a lot of manure lot of nitrogen fertilizer sources you can
expect to get this kind of cauliflower head so after we saw the example
of the perfect cauliflower and a bad cauliflower let's look at a normal
cauliflower now the reason I thought I'd share this information is because
most of the gardeners should expect at least this kind of head when they're
growing their cauliflower so as long as you follow a good planting regime make
sure your soil has adequate nutrients your cauliflower should end up looking
like this as you can see here we're harvesting this cauliflower plant and
the best season to grow cauliflower is in the cooler months once again
spring, fall ideal to grow cauliflower and as you can see here this is a normal
looking head a very a decently sized cauliflower head and this is what you
would even see at your grocery store so you should try to aim for this kind of
cauliflower so that was an episode on the cauliflower harvest where we saw
how a good cauliflower looks like how bad cauliflower looks like and how a
normal cauliflower looks like I'd love to know from you your experiences in
growing cauliflower so do drop in a comment
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happy gardening