Farmer's Weekly

Summer cauliflower secrets

42 YEARS AGO

1911

10 February 1982

2023

Sowing by the moon and using a heat-tolerant cultivar make for good out-of-season profits.

What do the full moon and a secret cultivar have in common? Answer: Successful summer cauliflowers. Trump card for vegetable farmer Johnny Costa is a cultivar claimed by him to be the only one in South Africa capable of producing quality hotweather cauliflowers, while another ace, he adds, is the sowing of the seed two days after full moon. “I will

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