Cauliflower Seeds (Poosi)

Cauliflower is one of the slower, bigger commitments in a leafy-greens-heavy balcony garden — you're not growing it for a quick cut of leaves, you're growing it for one dense head per plant, and that takes real space and real time. If you've only got room for a couple of large containers, it's worth knowing upfront that this isn't the fast turnaround crop that pak choi or spinach is. Each plant needs 45-60 cm of room once seedlings are thinned, since head development pushes the plant outward as it matures. It wants slightly more light than the leafy greens in this range — 5-6 hours of full sun daily — plus soil that stays evenly moist throughout. Harvest lands somewhere between 80 and 100 days from sowing, so this is one to start early if you're planning around a season.