Comments on: Broccoli vs cauliflower

By: Mike (tfb)

Mike (tfb) — Sun, 11 May 2008 13:33:57 +0000

eilenn: Thankfully, I haven’t been visited by cabbage worm, so I don’t have an answer. Flea beetles are the scourge of the brassicas here, I absolutely have to use floating row cover over seedling transplants or the FBs would eat them to the stem.

By: eileen

eileen — Sun, 11 May 2008 13:19:53 +0000

how do you keep your cauliflower and kale free of cabbage worm? ours are decimated by cabbage worm.

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Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:40:10 +0000

[...] Purple Cauliflower as my newbie. Violet Queen is a variety of cauliflower that I learned about from Tiny Farm Blog. It grows bright purple heads that look like broccoli! I have never grown purple cauliflower before [...]

By: Mike (tfb)

Mike (tfb) — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 16:53:45 +0000

Sarah, veggie colors come from pigments. It’s all genetics, like different colors of hair or eyes or skin or whatever.

Information about veggie colors is interesting! I don’t keep much track of veggie nutritional value, though there’s a lot of info on it, because I don’t feel it’s all that useful for me to say stuff like, “oh, eat kale ’cause it’s high in this or that, which is good for this or that.” What do I really know?! But it’s still cool how the different pigments seem to have different nutritional and health properties, so it’s good to eat veggies by colors, a really colorful plate is better…

You can try searching in Google or Yahoo! for something like “vegetable color nutrition”. Here are a couple of interesting links: Colour is the key and Benefits of a Variety of Fruits and Vegetables.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 06:21:31 +0000

I just bought one yesterday and I cooked it for tonight’s dinner. My boy likes the colour but we would like to know how the purple colour comes from?

By: Marc from Garden Desk

Marc from Garden Desk — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 21:50:08 +0000

Whether its Broccoli or Cauliflower, I like the looks of it. Your picture is great! I will look for Violet Queen to grow next year. My kids would love it!

Thanks for sharing such an odd but interesting variety.

By: Ferdzy

Ferdzy — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 02:56:19 +0000

It’s certainly very pretty!

By: Robin

Robin — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 01:15:24 +0000

I grew this purple broccoflower this year. I bought cauliflower. I grew broccoli. The only thing that resembled cauliflower was the total lack of side shoots. This tastes good but not good enough to grow next year.