Bolting
3 guides tagged Bolting, from first steps to advanced care.
- BeginnerVegetables
Growing Radishes: Why Crowded Roots Never Bulb
Radish is sold as the fast, foolproof crop, and the speed is real, but the guide that stops there hides the one step that decides whether you get roots worth eating: thinning. Crowded seedlings grow leaves, not roots, and there's no fixing that after the fact. Add the second honest limit (past 70F the plant bolts instead of bulbing, a timing failure, not a care one) and here's what actually decides the outcome.
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Kohlrabi: The Bulb Is a Stem, Not a Root
Kohlrabi gets shelved with the root vegetables and grown like one, but its swollen edible part is a stem, sitting entirely above the soil the whole time. Per UMN Extension: what that actually changes about how you plant it, when it bolts, and how you tell it's ready, since there's no root shoulder to watch for.
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Broccoli: The Head Is a Flower, Not Produce Waiting to Ripen
A broccoli head isn't a vegetable holding steady until you get around to picking it. Per UMN Extension, it's a cluster of unopened flower buds, and once those buds start opening, the head is done, permanently, not just past its best. What that actually changes about when to cut it.
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