TeresaGreen's Cauliflower 'Sicilia Violetto' x 2 Harvesting
Plant: Cauliflower (Brassica oleracea (Botrytis Group)) | Variety: Sicilia Violetto
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poor germination rate so far – only a couple of seeds have sprouted – a couple of days ago, but no more as yet, out of the six that I planted, fingers crossed I might have a few tardy ones still to come – possibly I’m sowing them a bit late in their season.
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Planting Data
Milestones
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15 Nov 2011
Harvesting day 274
on the small side for such a huge plant
1.0 x item 0.25 kg
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29 Oct 2011
Fertilising day 257
blood and bone
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02 Sep 2011
Fertilising day 200
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20 Jul 2011
Fertilising day 156
blood and bone
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18 May 2011
Fertilising day 93
charlie carp
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28 Apr 2011
Fertilising day 73
worm juice and charlie carp
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17 Apr 2011
Fertilising day 62
charlie carp
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16 Apr 2011
Fertilising day 61
seamungus (seaweed) pellets
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15 Apr 2011
Fertilising day 60
worm juice
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11 Apr 2011
Fertilising day 56
diluted bokashi juice
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10 Apr 2011
Transplanted day 55
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11 Mar 2011
Potting Up day 25
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23 Feb 2011
Sprouting day 9
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14 Feb 2011
Sown day 0
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14 Feb 2011
Sown day 0
Comments
TangoFlowers wrote:
Quite an assortment of fertilizers! :)
How do u know which of your various fertilizers to apply?
Can you recommend any good websites or books to read about this fine art of which fertilizer to use at which time?
Posted on 20 Jul 11 (almost 2 years ago)
TeresaGreen wrote:
Hi TangoFlowers – yes it does look pretty varied seeing them all listed – oh and I did fertilise during june – just got slack about recording! I guess I look at these ‘fertilisers’ in two categories – one lot that I think of as ‘pro-biotics’ for the soil – just tonics that are good for keeping the soil bug populations up, and therefore the soil healthy – in this category I would put – seaweed based pellets, worm juice – I have a worm farm so may as well use it, and the bokashi juice (similarly – i have a bokashi unit, so may as well use the waste liquid).
The other sort are more the true fertilisers providing the NPK nutrients to the plants. The Charlie Carp product is basically a fish emulsion which is apparently a good Nitrogen source – Carp are an invasive pest fish in Australia so you get to feel virtuous when you use this product. I think it’s supposed to be best for the leafy green veg., rather than the brassicas, but my leafy greens were right next to my cauli’s so they got some for free. Apparently blood and bone is supposed to be good for the brassica family. Wood ash left over from open fires is supposed to be high in Potassium, and for organic sources high in Phosphorous I hear rock minerals are supposed to be the go – but I’ve not yet tried them – but that might be more of an issue in Australia where our soils are naturally pretty low in Phosphorous.
I can’t think of any particular book, but I did see an excellent segment on a local gardening show recently that went through which fertiliser types to use for which crops – here’s a link to the show transcript if you want to have a look – it’s in the ‘vegie patch’ section – http://www.abc.net.au/gardening/stories/s2973330.htm
Posted on 21 Jul 11 (almost 2 years ago)
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