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[Clansgian AT wmconnect.com]

> exactly my experience, too.
> OK...I keep saying this, but I'm gonna try growing them "one more time"..lol

Me too.  I've overly fond of sprouts and even have the children eating them 
on a regular basis.  Alas, mostly boughten ones.  I won't quit growing them 
even if I never get a good crop.   Dum spiro, specto.

This thread has piqued my interest and I googled about to see if I could gain 
any new info.  Ya know, it can be frustrating.  I remember in my very 
misspent youth sitting through Ed Psych and Ed Ed classes and my jaw dropping 
with 
utter stupidity of them.  They were most often what I'd call Boy Scout 
classes.  
"A person teaching (for example) children with neurological disorders must be 
patient.  (Oh, really, I'd have thought impatient, good thing I'm taking this 
class).  A person must be understaning. (Let me write that down).  A person 
must be honest with the children ...... as well as thrifty, clean, brave, and 
reverend."

Next class, same list of Boy Scout virtues.

Remember I said 'misspent'.

Well, in trying to find some real info about Brussels sprouts, I'm getting 
the same feeling.  Site after site, reference after reference,  is the same 
old 
Boy Scout crap about 'where you grow bs needs to be situated in the sun (you 
reckon?) and the seedling need to be watered (I'd have thought baked, good 
thing I read that).'  What next?  Does the gardener need to be thrifty, 
clean, 
brave, and reverend?

But the only tidbits I gleaned were that too rich a ground will cause the 
heads to be loose.  Makes sense because that is true of other Brassica  as 
well.  
And that they won't tolerate much acidity.  

Beyond that, I don't have a clue as to what to try to do differently.  

Might try that thrifty, brave, reverend tack, but likely not.