Growing cauliflower advice please

nodwah

Hi all, I've never grown any caulis before - I'm not generally very good at brassicas and I maybe eat 1 cauli a year on average!

However at our allotment a chap gave us 6 cauli plants (which I didn't like to refuse as we're new!)

I limed the soil as there is club root and at first the plants were growing away really nicely, but after the heads got more than about 3 inches across they started to split and go brown.

We picked them and the roots were very thick - is that club root?
When I got the heads home they ponged something rotten so they went in the bin.

So anyway is it club root or something else that made them go brown and yucky?
Help please

ukbill69

BY what happened to me last year, its time to cut them off.

cba321

I have never grown them before, until this year. I had four in the garden, didn't do anything to them, apart from the odd snail preventer here and there and planted in some compost and when I looked, I had 4 very large white caulis. Looked and taste great! :j

nodwah

Well i chucked them in the bin when I got home I'm afraid