We had several cabbages that were planted in fall by the Seattle Urban Farm Company (Great guys...)
The cabbages survived a particularly harsh Seattle winter, and come spring started looking great... but then the vast majority of them bolted. :( Researching why this happened, we found that it was either due to a sudden change towards warmer temperature... or an over-abundance of nitrogen at the wrong time. We had both. =P
We fertilized the cabbages at the beginning of April *and* we got a pretty good uptick in temperatures (compared to winter) at the same time. Very sad. For future reference- don't fertilize vegetables that have over wintered.
The cabbages survived a particularly harsh Seattle winter, and come spring started looking great... but then the vast majority of them bolted. :( Researching why this happened, we found that it was either due to a sudden change towards warmer temperature... or an over-abundance of nitrogen at the wrong time. We had both. =P
We fertilized the cabbages at the beginning of April *and* we got a pretty good uptick in temperatures (compared to winter) at the same time. Very sad. For future reference- don't fertilize vegetables that have over wintered.
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