How big should my sprouts be now?

[janeyo]

Confused as I would have thought they'd be romping away and have maybe some baby ones on by now. But nothing so far, and they are only about a foot tall too.
Were sown back in March and planted out in June/July.
Wondering if to pull em up as a nonstarter, they were meant to be for xmas...

Thanks.

[piskieinboots]

if you don't need the space I would give them a little longer, give them some nosh maybe?

[marathon]

mine are only about 1.5 - 2ft high but do have sprouts forming. Mine are an open pollunated variety and so some plants are behind others, so at least I can harvest over alonger peroid of time.

The chap next to me have really big plants but the sprouts are all ready now, so far too early. My MIL is also worried that hers were planted too early as hers look ready too.

[Snadger]

More by good luck than good management I have two different types of sprouts giving me a staggered harvest.
I've had a Sunday dinner boiling from the early ones for the last two weekends and the others have marble sized sprouts beginning to form.

Just wonder if you have a clubroot problem as some of my early ones were smaller than the rest and when I pulled them up they had been affected by clubroot. The chooks got the green bit and the roots were burned.

Surprisingly we can get clubroot resistant caulis and cabbage, but as yet, no sprouts?

[janeyo]

It could be clubroot. They are in the plot at nanna's garden so new to growing for me there this year.
Nobody has grown there for 20 years but it was a productive plot before then.

The chap next door to her still grows in his adjacent long garden and tells me he can't grow brassicas due to clubroot, but he DID manage to grow loads of PSb that I gave him last year when had spares. He picked at it for weeks and told everyone about my PSB plants lol.

They look healthy and green but just small. They have had a fair bit of flea beetle damage too, but I am top if it now.
The cabbages I put there in the same bed are hearting up, but again are smallish.
The PSB looks a bit spindly but early days for it yet.

What should I feed them with?

[Snadger]

It could be clubroot. They are in the plot at nanna's garden so new to growing for me there this year.
Nobody has grown there for 20 years but it was a productive plot before then.

The chap next door to her still grows in his adjacent long garden and tells me he can't grow brassicas due to clubroot, but he DID manage to grow loads of PSb that I gave him last year when had spares. He picked at it for weeks and told everyone about my PSB plants lol.

They look healthy and green but just small. They have had a fair bit of flea beetle damage too, but I am top if it now.
The cabbages I put there in the same bed are hearting up, but again are smallish.
The PSB looks a bit spindly but early days for it yet.

What should I feed them with?

Easy solution is to pull one up and have a look! If it is clubroot and you still want to persevere with them, I would suggest earthing them up similar to tatties in the hope they will put out new roots which would help to strengthen them!

[janeyo]

I will investiage next time I am there, prob thursday.
I will try take pic too.

Nanna will lynch me if there's no fresh sprouts for xmas dinner, it's the only reason she let me borrow her garden!

PMSL

[Alison]

Mine are a couple of foot tall (with the exception of one which is pathetic after some major slug damage) but no sign of sprouts yet. They were planted out rather late though (well into July) so am expecting them to be late.