Remember the Romanesco cauliflower?  The weird cauliflower with the green spiral curds?

 

Well, we harvested two heads, and within a week, they started to bolt.

 

You can see the green spirals down low near the leaves, but look up above them and you can see that each spiral is growing a stem.  I had no idea what would happen, but I guess this is logical.  Cauliflower does this too if you leave it in the ground too long.  Just like broccoli, it grows stems under the buds, then the flowers open.  

 

I tasted the stems, and they aren’t too tough to eat, so I guess I can still harvest these weird cauliflowers.  It was interesting and fun, once.  But I think I will stick to white cauliflower, preferably a variety that is slow to bolt.

 

 

LIVE AND LEARN!!!