Edible Gardening

Ok thanks all, I'll try a combination of suggestions then, and see what works best.

Ah! Rick Stein. Real, natural, down to earth. Watched his series travelling the South Americas. At home, no fancy kitchen, simply good cooking.I have just rec'd a CD with old books about Lilies. The first book having been written in 1870's. I have grown hundreds of lilies and at the same...

Had to google that variety Kon ....you have a good one I think Yes, a wall or fence is ideal. If you wire it, aim to keep the wires 5 cm or so from the wall or fence. Helps air circulation, easier to train on the wires, helps fruit ripen more quickly and, I think, more effective against the...

Well done Gary ....well, it’s a nice problem to have isn’t it? If more folks complained standards and quality would improve dramatically. Maybe keep the best and give some away....any allotment friends?

I demonstrated in my post Air layering a plum... that they are easy to propagate both by air layering and by taking cuttings.If you air layer a fruiting branch then the resulting new tree will flower and even produce fruit the following year if the root system is healthy enough.The drawback...

Here’s an update The plants have continued to grow and look great , I left the flowers on one plant which produced a little fruit, Q: The other plants didn’t flower again , am I correct in thinking that they are building strength and volume and will fruit next yr?

They were probably cob nuts I bought @Palustris , god knows why they sell them green.

I am lucky Howard mine are grown espalier against a wall now so either use the bag catcher one or send grandson up ladder to pick by hand. Good luck in your hunt..

I've been growing veg for years and although there is a standard "method" for everything, I still like to utilise "trial and error" too. This adds to your experience year on year, every day is a school day!Good luck.Steve...

OK points noted. Mostly my fault though as I knew I would be ripping out the bathroom and knowing that would take me a couple of months I rushed a few things in the garden just to get them going then got caught with the refurb so pretty much ignored other things. I should have known better but...

Years ago, I got some Garlic from the Garlic Farm. I forget which varieties for sure now, but one was probably ‘Solent White’. From memory, they performed very well.

I'm not quite sure, @Sheal as she's a bit of a runner she may have bean and gone without you noticing.

Eden1 You can cover with fleece Cheap and effectiveNext spring you can use nematodes ......for slugs and others for pests in the soil.I sow carrots and immediately cover with fleece. Apart from lifting to thin them a couple of times keep carrots covered and this prevents the dreaded...

I use upturned 2L PET drinks bottles with the bottoms cut off, with the spout stuffed into gaps through the membrane I'm planting through, then pour water through the top open end.

Dont fall off the wall

I have just peeled one of the potatoes and cut it in half and here is a picture of it.I peeled two other potatoes but by the time I had cut out all the bad pieces there was hardly anything left.Found the following online so does anyone know anything about them ie how do you use them and...

Yes I would @Paul Blackburn

Excellent post.

@pete mine were planted late last Autumn in the tunnel..

No worries tree will be fine though it could possibly be suffering from what I know as coddling moth...If so when cutting a fruit in half you may see what they call frask and a little maggot thingy .The way to combat it is to hang a Pheromone trap in the tree early spring to stop the moths...