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Most N (100 lbs.) is broadcast and incorporated before planting main or late-season crops may be sidedressed after three or four weeks with about 60 lbs. In fact, head rot can be a problem if excess N is supplied to broccoli.īrassicas usually take up about 160 lbs./A of N, but this will vary with soils. For early cabbage and broccoli, the necessary N can be supplied at planting time, and sidedressing is rarely needed. These plants generally are heavy feeders, although their nitrogen (N) needs vary widely. Maine’s climate is great for growing heading brassicas, such as broccoli. “Cole” originates from the Latin caulis, meaning “stem” or “stalk,” and “cole crops” generally refers to the stem or stalk brassicas (cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, brussels sprouts, kohlrabi – and kale, which is still Brassica oleracea), rather than the leafy types, such as collards. For animals, they were grazed in the field or cut and stored for winter. For human consumption, they were called “pottages,” because they were diced and thrown in a pot to boil with other vegetables. Broccoli probably predates cauliflower, with some broccoli raab going back to the 1400s in Italy, and some to Roman times.īrassicas were widely cultivated in Colonial America (see “Brassicas”), but more as food for animals than humans. Cauliflower developed in Cypress or the area near Jerusalem and Syria around 1490. Hutton gave a brief history of the Brassica genus, noting that cabbages and kales, the first brassicas to be domesticated, probably came from the North Sea area of northern Europe, where they derived from wild sea kale ( Brassica oleracea var. At the 2007 Farmer-to-Farmer Conference, Mark Hutton of the University of Maine Cooperative Extension’s Highmoor Farm in Monmouth and Jason Kafka of Checkerberry Farm in Parkman covered production methods for organic growers. The Maine climate is great for producing brassicas. Hutton says that ‘Cheddar’ is by far the favorite with the crew at Monmouth.

‘Graffiti’ (top left), ‘Amazing’ (right) and ‘Cheddar’ cauliflower. Information for Prospective Host Farmers.Information for Prospective Apprentices.Russell Libby Agricultural Scholar Awards.

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