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Do you also think growing cauliflower is difficult? That's actually quite true. Cauliflower requires a lot of attention from sowing to harvesting. In this article, I'll go over everything you need to consider step by step. At the end of the growing season, you'll be able to harvest beautiful and delicious cauliflowers. If you're lucky, the conditions for a successful crop are already naturally present in your garden: good soil, proper fertilizer, sufficient water, no clubroot, and favorable weather. But if you're not so lucky, you'll have to take the necessary precautions yourself. After an introduction and some general information, we'll go through the steps of growing cauliflower.
Introduction to Growing Cauliflower
Cauliflower belongs to the cruciferous family, like all cabbages. Radishes and many weeds, such as shepherd's purse, and green manures, are also cruciferous. This is important to know because clubroot can be spread through all members of the cruciferous family. Clubroot is a disease that destroys cabbage plants and occurs when you grow cruciferous vegetables too often in the same spot. More on that later.

Cauliflower florets are cross-shaped, clearly a cruciferous cauliflower, but it's only a reasonable source of vitamins and a rather poor source of minerals compared to other vegetables. So why all the effort? Well, cauliflower is delicious and can be prepared in many ways. And if you grow it successfully, it's very satisfying. According to the Dutch food table, the nutritional value of the edible part per 100 grams of edible cauliflower is: 104 kJ or 41 kcal. According to this table, the composition of 100 grams of edible part is as follows:
- Water 93 g
- Energy-providing nutrients:
- protein 2 g
- fat 0.5 g
- carbohydrates 3 g.
- Minerals:
- calcium 20 mg
- phosphate 30 mg
- iron 0.5 mg
- sodium 15 mg
- potassium 400 mg
- Vitamins:
- thiamine (B-1) 0.05 mg
- riboflavin (B-2) 0.07 mg
- vitamin B-6 0.17mg
- vitamin C 80 mg and after preparation another 60 mg.
Growing cauliflower in general
What does the cauliflower look like?
Cauliflower is a cabbage whose inflorescence (bud/stalk) is eaten before it develops into beautiful flowers. That's why cauliflower is only harvestable for such a short period; it wants to flower quickly. Cauliflower is a deep-rooted plant with long leaves. The stem is very short and ends in a closed, fleshy, semi-conical head. Not exactly an appetizing description when you read it like that. When you harvest the head, it should be snow-white, dense, firm, and not too lumpy.

Germinating cauliflower seeds
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