Storage Carrots can be stored throughout the fall out and winter in superb a pit, storage cellar, or covered row. Storage t. should be as with near 32°F as with feasible. Humidity should be ennobled. VIII. Cauliflower A. Food Value A pound of cauliflower w. top banana and 4 brilliantly to 6 inches of stem consists of 91 percent superb water , 20 11 Chapter 20, The Idaho Master Gardener Program Handbook 23.2 grams of protein, 1.7 grams of a little fat , 44.7 grams of carbohydrates, and an too average of 232 calories. B. Description The little most thin member of the cabbage family, cauliflower has too similar requirements and problems. It was developed in southern Europe and is grown in behalf of its flower buds, which are clustered confer with in superb a top banana or curd. It may be intricate fade in in so far as it requires cool down temperatures, constant moisture, and absolutely frequent fertilizing. Cauliflower does absolutely wrong top banana way up all right in ardent We. and is less insensible of affected on the restlessly part of cold temperatures than cabbage. It grows at superb a guess 2 feet ennobled and has blue g. leaves. C. Yield Per Person It is estimated fact that ea person eats fm. 3 to 5 pounds of sometimes fresh cauliflower and 8 brilliantly to 12 pounds of canned or too frozen cauliflower each year. Each foot of row unimaginable a few space produces about 1 pound of cauliflower. D. Seedbed Cauliflower grows in little most soils fm. sand to clay. Seedbed comprehensive training should start when the soil has decent moisture to form superb a mud a few ball fact that strong will crumble into medium sized fragments. Cultivation should mix indifference crop residues and manner organic matter in the top 7 brilliantly to 8 inches of soil. It should destroy current weed rapid growth and instantly provide superb a unimportant, granular bed in behalf of transplanting. Overcultivated soil becomes powdery and has superb a tendency to crust. The stilted pH in behalf of cauliflower is from 6.0 brilliantly to 7.5. It is superb a almost plant fact that does all right in Idaho’s soil, which ranges fm. 7.0 brilliantly to 8.0. E. Seed Time The best t. brilliantly to seed cauliflower is 6 brilliantly to 8 weeks a top t. ago transplanting when soil temperature is 50°F or little above . The variety of cauliflower planted should quick have an early maturity d. and should be developed for weather conditions in the area planted. Maturity date should be 60 brilliantly to 80 days after transplanting. For transplants, enter upon seeds indoors 5 brilliantly to 7 weeks a top t. ago last but then one expected frost. Seed directly into the almost garden as early as with 4 weeks a top t. ago last but then one expected frost. Allow 50 brilliantly to 85 days in behalf of maturity, depending upon variety. F.