If you want to harvest fresh cauliflower for as long as possible, must provide at least four to five different planting dates.
In favorable climatic conditions and on easily warmed soil, you can plant in the open ground as early as the end of March. However, plant protection hoods are essential. However, it is safer, the first planting under foil (foil tent) to do. An extension in a small greenhouse or cold frame (Plant in early to mid-March) is also possible. However, one should consider this, that early cauliflower the area about 50 to 55 Days blocked and thus the actual main culture, with. B. Cucumber, tomatoes or peppers, could only be planted relatively late. Cauliflower ripens quite unevenly, so that the harvest time is over under glass and foil 2 weeks, in the morning- and summer cultivation over 3 to 4 weeks and in autumn z.T. up over 5 weeks. This results in a time interval of approx 3 to 4 weeks between subsequent plantings. The last possible planting date is, depending on local conditions, between the 10. and 20. July. Cauliflower is therefore also suitable as a follow-up crop for all vegetable beds, which are harvested by mid-July at the latest.