Edible Gardening

New potato buckets arrived today.Rusty

I've sown a lot of fern spore over the years, you daren't breath for fear of hoovering them up!

Cos was the one I used to eat until I found the round lettuce, I've ordered all the year round and a Gustavs salad seed so I'll see how I go with those.

Hi, I use a mix of multipurpose compost and my garden soil (which is heavy clay) and some grit in my permanent containers. In the spring I mix some slow release fertiliser granules and rotted manure to the top part, sometimes also some blood&fish&bone if there's any left after the roses....

Little update on hydros : the cucumbers are now also flowering, beans are full full of flowers and looks like butternut may flower soon. All excited

I'm sure that they do, liliana, and I think that members of the GC Gang possibly still do.

I'm really looking forward to getting the first strawbs from them, the original was a deep, deep red and utterly delicious so I hope this will be the same / similar

It was probably just a slug or snail on it @ricky101 Good looking leek though - what variety?

Good Idea I can put a bag in the cupboard with the tumble dryer for a couple of days as it has sat in the GH and is probably frozen solid.I have ordered Royal Black, Lemon drop and Cyklon. Never grown any of them before and I and awaiting the seeds arrival. I will set up the propagation area...

Ok, thank you all, will put them in a room with no heating and should be ok.

I've been trying to grow Florence Fennel these last three years without success. I've sown too early (April) and they bolted, I tried sowing much later (mid-May) last year and they still bolted. One last try this year and I'll wait till mid-June.

Kelsae Onion Cultural InstructionsGround Preparation First, prepare your onion bed with plenty of rotted organic matter, dug in during the winter. Also apply lime at this time if necessary. We recommend a pH reading of 6.75 – 7.25. Kelsae Onions prefer a heavier soil which retains moisture, so...

Thanks for advice.. I will take a risk when whethers better in planting in with my dwarffruit trees and Im also going to try plant some in a terracotta planter pyramid Ive created.. Im hoping to have different kinds of strawberries so i have some all seasons if at all possible... Hope it does

I could not see where to post so I have replied to you as its on the subject..Hope you do not mind.. Hour ahead here so around 7.45am. I have made plans to make the garden a little easier to keep it's and acre which was 100% farm land so the grass is tough but no as tough as the...wild flowers...

It all depends on how many flowers there are, if it's just a few I'd leave them.

One had a hole (slug maybe) which needed boring out otherwise completely solid.Sorry I just planted any old how, so I don't know which part of the sliced up seed tuber produced it. I dug up half a dozen roots to see us through Christmas and they were a bit variable, some had fewer tubers than...

I grow a lot of Spinach, the quick growing annual type. I don't do anything special to the soil, no compost or fertiliser. I grow it in succession as after a few weeks it runs to seed. As for varieties I have success with Amazon, although others do ok too.I do the same thing with Rocket and...

They need to be spaced out to grow really big, like this grower does

I'm very grateful for all input and advice, I can think over winter what to do.

I grew the variety Ariane from seed in 2015, they were big enough to transplant in their final position the following spring. I didn't pick much for another 2 years to let them build up. This spring I got a decent harvest from them, took 5 years but worth the wait.