Cauliflower Snow Crown F1
If you’re having trouble with growing cauliflower, this is the variety to grow. This is an early and very adaptable hybrid variety that is a market standard. Produces high quality, medium sized white heads in both summer and winter.
An AAS (All American Selection) winner. Has particularly strong growth from germination on, producing up to 20cm wide heads (400g to 1.4 kg).
Sow: October to March (early sowing indoors or protected outside from frost – Cool Climate)
Spacing: 30 to 60cm, rows 40 to 70cm (closer the more you keep the soil moist)
- In the 1st century AD, Pliny included what he called cyma among his descriptions of cultivated plants in Natural History: “Ex omnibus brassicae generibus suavissima est cyma,“ (“Of all the varieties of cabbage the most pleasant-tasted is cyma“). Pliny’s descriptions likely refer to the flowering heads of an earlier cultivated variety of Brassica oleracea, but comes close to describing modern cauliflower.
Germination: Optimal Soil temperature is 18 to 24 C (around 5-10 days to germination)
First two photos courtesy of Dan Meldrum.
