2006-07-04 13:45:09 · 6 answers · asked by blondie_clark 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
No. Tying the leaves up is what you do with cauliflower if you want to keep the bud white instead of green. But with broccoli, you want green buds. Be sure to harvest your broccoli head while the buds are still closed. If you wait too long, they will open up with yellow flowers. You can still eat them at that point, but the flavor and texture is better if you eat the broccoli when the bud is closed. Also, when you cut the main head of broccoli, leave the plant in place in your garden. In a few weeks, you'll start getting a lot of side heads. While each side head won't make a meal in itself like the main head, if you gather a handful of side heads, you've got a meal.
2006-07-04 14:41:35 · answer #1 · answered by Erika M 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No don't tie the broccoli. Do tie the leaves on the cauliflower to keep it from getting sunburned (purple). The purple disappears when you cook the cauliflower. There are varieties of caul.iflower with long leaves that self-enclosing. When it gets too hot here for comfort of plant, I use old .lace tableclothes to shade them.
2006-07-04 21:33:15 · answer #2 · answered by Leslie S 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on the area you are in, if your in a pretty hot climate I would pull the leaves up so the broccoli doesn't burn, (that is the reason people do that), and you can do the same with cauliflower.
2006-07-04 14:13:49 · answer #3 · answered by Jae 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, just leave broccoli alone. It is strong enough to stand by itself.
2006-07-04 14:46:10 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, i have grown lots of broccoli, you do not tie them.
a similar plant, cauliflower, i think that you do tie them. have never grown it myself. cant remember where i heard that, though.
2006-07-04 13:50:16 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, that's whatyou do for califlower
2006-07-04 13:55:37 · answer #6 · answered by judy_r8 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋