I do my best to try and label up all our vegetables from when they are first sown to when they're planted out in the allotment. However, every now and again things do go wrong especially in the hectic planting out periods.
Imagine my surprise then when I found the specimen above growing in a patch of brassicas labelled as Clapton cauliflowers. Obviously, it isn't a cauliflower at all and as I haven't planted any calabrese or broccoli in this bed that I would expect to be ready for picking in August I immediately though that the seeds must have been incorrectly labelled. The patch of brassicas planted up as cauliflowers didn't look to be growing all that much like cauliflowers in any case.
The plants are all growing far too tall to be cauliflowers. I had a quick look at the plants growing next to these plants and they looked far more like I'd expect cauliflowers to look.
These cauliflower like plants were labelled up as Rudolph and I didn't give the matter any more thought at the plot as I was more interested in tidying up the bed and getting the environmesh cover back over the plants.
Once back home I gave the problem a bit more thought and I seem to remember sowing a broccoli called Rudolph. I checked back through my records and found this picture taken on the 06 May.
Sown on the same day cauliflower Clapton and broccoli Rudolph. Obviously the labels got mixed up when the plants were planted out. The only question now is why is Rudolph producing heads so early when it should be producing heads when autumn arrives?
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