Pam Moore wrote:
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 21:16:53 +0100, Rhiannon Macfie Miller
wrote:


I planted out some Romanesco in June, along with some
cabbages and purple broccoli. I put some chicken manure in
the bed before they went in, and they got another lot in
August. The cabbages are lovely and tasty, and the broccoli
is coming along well, but although the romanesco are lovely
big healthy-looking plants, they're showing no signs of
flowering. Aren't they supposed to be producing heads about
now?


I cannot speak from experience but my immediate reaction is that it is
the chicken manure that is the cause of your problem.
Chicken manure is very high in nitrogen and will give you good results
on leafy crops but where you want the FLOWER you need less nitrogen in
the same way that if you fed nitrogen to tomatoes or bedding plants
you would get all leaf and no flower.

Thanks.

So is there anything I can do about it now? Given that the
three types of plant are interspersed (I was saving space)?

Rhiannon