Cauliflower Graffiti F1 (purple)

The 'Graffiti F1' Cauliflower is a new variety that produces beautiful dark purple heads weighing approximately 1 kg, protected by vigorous foliage. It is a Cauliflower of excellent taste quality that turns green after cooking. It is sown from March to mid-August for a harvest from July to the end of October.

With its immaculate white colour and, in recent years, joyfully yellow, orange, or purple, the Cauliflower is a flowering vegetable whose fleshy meristem is consumed. It belongs to the large family of Brassicaceae (formerly Cruciferae) and has the Latin name Brassica oleracea botrytis. Sometimes called Cyprus Cabbage, the Cauliflower is a biennial vegetable plant originally from China.

First consumed in Germany only 300 years ago, this vegetable has earned a special place in our kitchens as it lends itself to many preparations. It can be eaten raw in salads or cooked, plain, in gratins with béchamel sauce, or accompanied by a curry sauce that complements its flavour. It is a low-calorie vegetable and rich in vitamin C.

There are many varieties of Cauliflowers, each corresponding to a distinct growing period that should be respected. You can have this vegetable all year round by carefully choosing your seeds.

Cauliflower is a demanding vegetable, requiring excellent organic manure and regular watering.

Harvest: Cauliflower is harvested when its head is compacted by cutting it at ground level.

Storage: Cauliflower does not store very well. It is best to consume it quickly after harvesting. It can be kept for a few days in the refrigerator. You can also freeze it after blanching it for 3 minutes in salted boiling water.

Gardener's tip: The main enemy of cauliflower is the Cabbage White Butterfly (Pieris brassicae), a beautiful cream-white butterfly with small black spots that wakes up in April-May to wreak havoc throughout the summer by devouring its leaves. While spraying a solution based on Bacillus Thuringiensis is an acceptable curative measure, we prefer to prevent it by installing an insect-proof net tightly on market garden arches. These nets are easy to set up and reusable to protect, for example, your carrot and leek crops.

Note: This variety is labelled F1 for "F1 hybrid" because it is a variety resulting from the crossbreeding of carefully selected parents to combine their qualities. This results in a variety that can be exceptionally flavorful and early while resistant to certain diseases. Sometimes criticised or wrongly associated with GMOs, F1 hybrid seeds are attractive for their uniformity and resistance, but unfortunately, their qualities do not pass on to subsequent generations. Therefore, saving the seeds for future sowing will not be possible.