Vegetable / Cool season
Snowball Y Cauliflower
Cool-season transplant crop for gardeners who can manage moisture and pests.
Mild white curds when grown through steady cool weather.
Seed spacing and maturity
- Days to maturity
- 70
- Germination temperature
- 55-85F
- Seed depth
- 0.5 inches
- Spacing
- 18 inches
- Row spacing
- 30 inches
- Start method
- Start indoors
Frost-date timing
- Indoor start
- 6 weeks before last frost
- Transplant
- 14 days before last frost
- Fall planting
- 12 weeks before first frost
Action plan
- Can I plant this now?
- Use your local last-frost, first-frost, and soil-temperature checks before treating this crop as plantable today.
- Start indoors or direct sow?
- Start indoors, harden off, then transplant into the final bed when local timing is safe.
- How much space?
- 18 inches in-row spacing, 30 inches between rows, and 0.5 inch seed depth.
- Best companions?
- Use crop-family rotation first, then pair with compatible timing, spacing, and canopy size rather than relying on a simple companion chart.
- Common failure modes?
- Heat, drought, or uneven growth can reduce head quality. Keep soil evenly moist; stress interrupts curd formation. Fertile, well-drained soil with consistent nitrogen.
Is it still worth sowing this year?
Every region this site covers (Texas, North Florida, Central Maryland, New York City and York County, PA) publishes a cauliflower planting window, so the answer for this variety is already dated. No other region is covered yet.
- Check Snowball Y Cauliflower against the Texas first frost date AgriLife lists cauliflower for Texas (AgriLife Region III); the page measures that window against this variety's 70 days to maturity and the region's first frost date.
- Is it too late to sow Snowball Y Cauliflower in North Florida this year? UF/IFAS lists cauliflower for North Florida; the page measures that window against this variety's 70 days to maturity and the region's first frost date.
- Check Snowball Y Cauliflower against the Central Maryland first frost date UMD Extension lists cauliflower for Central Maryland; the page measures that window against this variety's 70 days to maturity and the region's first frost date.
- Is it too late to sow Snowball Y Cauliflower in New York City this year? Cornell CCE lists cauliflower for the New York City area; the page measures that window against this variety's 70 days to maturity and the region's first frost date.
- Check Snowball Y Cauliflower against the York County, PA first frost date Penn State Extension lists cauliflower for York County, Pennsylvania; the page measures that window against this variety's 70 days to maturity and the region's first frost date.
Growing profile
- Sun
- Full sun
- Water
- Keep soil evenly moist; stress interrupts curd formation.
- Soil
- Fertile, well-drained soil with consistent nitrogen.
- Watch
- Heat, drought, or uneven growth can reduce head quality.
- brassica
- cool-season
- heads
- transplant
Browse context
- Vegetable Catalog Category collection
- Mustard Family Rotation and family context
- Cool Season Seeds Season collection
- Start Indoors Seeds Start-method collection
- Container-Friendly Seeds Practical trait collection
- Fall-Planting Seeds Practical trait collection
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