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Would you eat this cauliflower?

BobMcFishBobMcFish Posts: 66
in Fruit & veg
Hi there
i grew this cauliflower. It’s quite dirty and some of the flowers tinged with green or very slight purple. Do you think it’s worth eating?
i don’t expect it to be pristine since it’s organically grown
Thanks for any advice 

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  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Certainly, I'd just cut out the particularly dirty or coloured bits and cook the rest.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,385
    Same here, no problem at all.  Well done in getting heads - cauliflowers are one of the trickiest veg to grow yourself. :)
    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • BobMcFishBobMcFish Posts: 66
    Thank you so much for your advice. At least it’s big enough to afford some loss. It was too big for the colander  :). Really it’s only one successful one from 6 or 7 which grew some kind of head. I had not given them any slug protection (trying to be organic). That didn’t go well! Most of them were massacred. The ones that did have heads had slugs in between the florets  :(
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    🤤 cauliflower cheese? 😋 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • NewBoy2NewBoy2 Posts: 1,813
    Looks great and should be OK after removing the darker bits.

    Looks and tastes and smells are signs to animals and us that we should investigate what we are proposing to eat.

    Good effort
    Everyone is just trying to be Happy.....So lets help Them.
  • benjaminborggrechBvJQoHUpbenjaminborggrechBvJQoHUp Posts: 5
    Could try Copper tape to put around pots (if in pots) as a barrier to stop slugs as they don't like the electrical conductive feeling on their skin.

    Castille Soap and also kill them. 
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    benjaminborggrechBvJQoHUp said:
    Could try Copper tape to put around pots (if in pots) as a barrier to stop slugs …
    Growing brassicas in pots is fraught with difficulty due to their need for plenty of space and a very firm soil.  There is much more likelihood of success when planted out in the ground, particularly with cauliflowers as they’re notoriously tricky, even for professional growers. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • StephenSouthwestStephenSouthwest Posts: 635
    Very impressed with your cauliflower! (Last time I grew then I could harvest them with tweezers)
  • BobMcFishBobMcFish Posts: 66
    stephentame said:
    Very impressed with your cauliflower! (Last time I grew then I could harvest them with tweezers)
    Thanks. I made a raised bed and filled it with well rotted manure and potting compost, thinking I would be giving them as good a start as possible under controlled conditions. I covered them with a mesh tent to protect against pests but the slugs soon got in and made a happy home amongst the leaves and eventually the florets 😢
  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,385
    If it's any consolation, I 'cracked' the art of growing cauli's a number of years ago, but also lost about half the crop due to slugs this year.  Bad year for them here, especially since the spanish variety arrived. :'(
    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
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