Cauliflower famine of 2015? - Page 2

Worth1 · December 31, 2015

Quote:

Originally Posted by pmcgrady

Worth
I'm interested in price reports,
High dollar here, abundance in Texas?

I didn't go anywhere I realized I could check on line.

Here is the run down at my store for prices hold on to your seat.
Fresh cauliflower a head is 2.47 each.
Fresh organic cauliflower a head is 4.48 each.
Organic broccoli is 3.77 each
Broccoli crowns are 1.38 a pound.
Fresh broccoli a bunch is 1.77 each.
Fresh broccoli tops without the big bottoms is 2.48 each.

Worth

pmcgrady · December 31, 2015

Need to take a box van down there and load up on fresh produce, run over to Louisiana
and grab some 9 count shrimp, fresh oysters and blue crabs, come back home and make a killing.

Worth1 · December 31, 2015

Quote:

Originally Posted by pmcgrady

Need to take a box van down there and load up on fresh produce, run over to Louisiana
and grab some 9 count shrimp, fresh oysters and blue crabs, come back home and make a killing.

You can get better shrimp blue crab and far better oysters out of Texas.

Buy the oysters from Matagorda bay and south and they taste like fresh rain smells.

I have had raw oysters from all over the USA and these are by far the best.

Worth

Waiting · January 4, 2016

Cauliflower - $4.95/head

heirloomtomaguy · January 4, 2016

Checked the local grocer today and conventional is 2.49 lb and organic is 3.49 lb. Thats at Vons a higher priced market as far as big chains go.

RobinB · January 4, 2016

I just got back from the store and cauliflower was $4.99, which is a little higher than normal, but way better than the $7.99 it was a couple of weeks ago. I got some. YUM!

KarenO · January 4, 2016

6 Canadian loonies each here. for 1/2 the size heads as normal. they can keep it.
KarenO

pmcgrady · January 4, 2016

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cole_Robbie

It hates the heat, even more so than broccoli. The heads tend to sunburn, so you may have to tie the leaves up over the plant with a piece of string.

Just talked to some ole timers,around here...
They told me , not to waste my time trying to grow a spring crop, fall crops are much better. Less problems.

Hunt-Grow-Cook · January 5, 2016

Alot of stores in my part of CA are completely out and have been, the ones that do are all $5.99 a head and up.

On another note one of the local Raley's didnt have any regular cauliflower but they had Romanesco Cauliflower. Go figure. I bought a head just because of how cool it looks! Still $5.99.

imp · January 5, 2016

Wow, just got home from grocery shopping and it's $2.49 at Wally world. I didn't get any as Rob hates it.

Sun City Linda · January 5, 2016

I have a 99 cents only store really close by and they have had big beautiful cauliflower often at 99 cents a head.

BigVanVader · January 5, 2016

People eat that stuff?

Cole_Robbie · January 5, 2016

Quote:

Originally Posted by pmcgrady

Just talked to some ole timers,around here...
They told me , not to waste my time trying to grow a spring crop, fall crops are much better. Less problems.

That's if you garden the ole-timer way. Throw up a low tunnel that you can switch to shade cloth in hot weather, and I would think you'd do fine with a spring crop. You'd get an earlier start, and still be able to cope with heat if summer arrived quickly.

Worth1 · January 6, 2016

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cole_Robbie

That's if you garden the ole-timer way. Throw up a low tunnel that you can switch to shade cloth in hot weather, and I would think you'd do fine with a spring crop. You'd get an earlier start, and still be able to cope with heat if summer arrived quickly.

I agree with this wholeheartedly, I cant count how many times either me or someone I know has been told we cant do something by an ole timer.
A friend of mine got told he couldn't grow grapes around Taylor Texas by some farmers.
The guy grew enough grapes to make ((too many)) gallons of wine.

Many times these naysayers dont want to see someone succeed where they have failed.

I had an entire community of ole timers standing by waiting for me to be killed by my pet Brahman bull.
It never happened.

Worth

bower · January 6, 2016

Locally the grocery chains have been taking to the news to apologize to customers for the prices and the lack of produce.
The price of some fruits is so high that they will no longer bring it in. No one will buy it at the price and it will rot in the store at their expense.
Indeed the reporters say that people have stopped buying fruit and vegetables to a degree because of price increases this past year. Sad but true.

This is really nothing new, more of the same just worse than ever, except for the novelty that someone apologized!

January 4, 2016	#20
heirloomtomaguy Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2013 Location: glendora ca Posts: 2,560	Checked the local grocer today and conventional is 2.49 lb and organic is 3.49 lb. Thats at Vons a higher priced market as far as big chains go. __________________ “Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it."

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December 31, 2015	#17
pmcgrady Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2015 Location: Central Illinois Posts: 1,836	Need to take a box van down there and load up on fresh produce, run over to Louisiana and grab some 9 count shrimp, fresh oysters and blue crabs, come back home and make a killing.

January 4, 2016	#19
Waiting Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: Central California Posts: 87	Cauliflower - $4.95/head

January 4, 2016	#21
RobinB Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Near Reno, NV Posts: 1,621	I just got back from the store and cauliflower was $4.99, which is a little higher than normal, but way better than the $7.99 it was a couple of weeks ago. I got some. YUM!

January 4, 2016	#22
KarenO Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: Vancouver Island Posts: 5,931	6 Canadian loonies each here. for 1/2 the size heads as normal. they can keep it. KarenO

January 5, 2016	#24
Hunt-Grow-Cook Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2014 Location: Sacramento, CA Posts: 360	Alot of stores in my part of CA are completely out and have been, the ones that do are all $5.99 a head and up. On another note one of the local Raley's didnt have any regular cauliflower but they had Romanesco Cauliflower. Go figure. I bought a head just because of how cool it looks! Still $5.99.

January 5, 2016	#25
imp Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Wichita Falls, Texas Posts: 4,832	Wow, just got home from grocery shopping and it's $2.49 at Wally world. I didn't get any as Rob hates it.

January 5, 2016	#26
Sun City Linda Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: SoCal Inland Posts: 2,705	I have a 99 cents only store really close by and they have had big beautiful cauliflower often at 99 cents a head.

January 5, 2016	#27
BigVanVader Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2014 Location: Greenville, South Carolina Posts: 3,099	People eat that stuff?

January 6, 2016	#30
bower Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Newfoundland, Canada Posts: 6,794	Locally the grocery chains have been taking to the news to apologize to customers for the prices and the lack of produce. The price of some fruits is so high that they will no longer bring it in. No one will buy it at the price and it will rot in the store at their expense. Indeed the reporters say that people have stopped buying fruit and vegetables to a degree because of price increases this past year. Sad but true. This is really nothing new, more of the same just worse than ever, except for the novelty that someone apologized!