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05/31/06, 10:14 PM
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Is broccoli supposed to bloom?
I have been gardening with my father since I could walk, but I don't have a green thumb...we must just be lucky having good soil, so the plants do their own thing... 
Anyway, I was weeding my garden (that sea of green that has taken it over already), and noticed that my broccoli plants have these cute little whitish-yellow flowers on them.
Are they supposed to do that? Am I supposed to pick those off? I assume that's where the broccoli forms, but the plants look scragaley...
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05/31/06, 10:19 PM
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Yes thats the blooms you are seeing, folks eat. the undeveloped blooms of Broccolli and Califlower both. now if you have any bees near by you will have seeds soon.
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05/31/06, 11:28 PM
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i think that means you waited to long to pick it.
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05/31/06, 11:34 PM
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Yup -- you're supposed to harvest and eat the green buds. If it blooms, or even gets too close to blooming, it turns bitter. All is not lost, though. Cut off the blooming sections and some side shoots may still grow in - pay attention and harvest them sooner.
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06/01/06, 06:41 AM
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Broccoli is a cool weather plant and if the weather/soil get too warm too soon the plant "bolts" ,goes to seed to propogate itself. Happened to me also this year, so no broccoli heads until fall maybe, if I get new plants in at the right timing.
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06/01/06, 06:47 AM
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Yup, your broccoli has gone by when you see the flowers.
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06/01/06, 07:25 AM
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When you have flowers, let them go to seed for next year's (or this fall's ) broccoli.
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06/01/06, 07:28 AM
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Brassicas (cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, brussels sprouts) cross pollinate like crazy. Saving the seeds would be okay if no other brassicas have bloomed yet. They probably haven't, so she should be okay in that regard.
The seeds won't be worth saving if they're from a hybrid plant though.
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06/01/06, 08:35 AM
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Many broccoli varieties are hybrids, so even if you have only one brassica in the area, and let it go to seed, it will probably not give good offspring...Ann
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06/01/06, 01:53 PM
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Blossoming broccoli means it's time to feed it to the hens. Mine love the stuff.
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06/01/06, 03:15 PM
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Originally Posted by MomOf4
I have been gardening with my father since I could walk, but I don't have a green thumb...we must just be lucky having good soil, so the plants do their own thing...
Anyway, I was weeding my garden (that sea of green that has taken it over already), and noticed that my broccoli plants have these cute little whitish-yellow flowers on them.
Are they supposed to do that? Am I supposed to pick those off? I assume that's where the broccoli forms, but the plants look scragaley... |
Well.. I'm happy for you that your broccoli did *something.*  Mine are just leaves. Nothing else happened with them, even though I closely followed instructions for when to start from seeds, when to transplant etc. I'm wondering if they'll do anything or if I should just pull them out and plant something else. Same thing with the cauliflower. 
The peas are doing great though! 
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06/01/06, 04:30 PM
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Originally Posted by A.T. Hagan
Blossoming broccoli means it's time to feed it to the hens. Mine love the stuff.
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Yup, my chickens and duck had a broccoli feast yesterday!
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