Planting out brassicas

[Snadger]

I read an article about a professional grower of plug plants (which are sold to farmers etc). He sows all of the brassica plants at the same time into modules, then just holds them back in the modules, rather than sowing successionally. He said the plants are quite happy to sit in the modules for quite a long time and then race away once planted. So I did that last year - some of my calabrese and PSB sat in the module trays for 5 months before being planted out into what was the potato bed, and it's cropping now I did give them an occasional nettle tea feed (for nitrogen). The module trays sat on some mini greenhouse shelving (without the cover) in the shade, and for some reason the cabbage whites never noticed them?! I'll be doing the same thing again this year.

It works for almost any plant...I do it with leeks as well!

[Snadger]

Yes, having come to the conclusion that if you plant all of your psb at the same time, no matter what variety they are it seems they all crop together.
So this year there is two weeks between the sowing of rudolf, early and late psb.
Well in theory, in fact I missed my sowing time for rudolf and sowed the first two together

Next year I might sow them the other way round, just to be awkward, to prove my theory that it's when you sow them and not the variety.

I grew rudolph PSB this year but don't think it's any earlier than the rest!