Edible Gardening

While I was abroad, the postman delivered 9 tomato plugs. 3 Lizzano (a bush variety), 3 santorange (cordon) and 3 aviditas (again cordon, a pretty robust and large variety which I have grown last year).Because it would have been days until my return, my wife did me the favour to pot them for...

My Cucumbers are getting the same Selleri, I'll wait a couple of weeks and then they go into the blowaway house.

We love dwarf beans, great idea!

I'd stick with keeping it in a pot rather than grow bags and use John Innes compost no 3.

I don't grow them these days. But I would be doing it now if l did.

A Slight Spring Onion Detour.If you're stuck on what variety to grow then I would recommend the white skinned White Lisbon and Ishikura spring onions. Both of these are UK winter hardy and can be left in the ground for about two years before they set seed. If you harvest using the cut and come...

Thanks for that. I've just had to do some pruning and have a load of scion wood. Would be a shame for it to go to waste.

Thanks Mike, I will make sure to remove the envelope at the time of planting then. At the moment, I have only 8 seeds in Jiffy (bush tomatoes), it has been a week and they have not developed yet.But I have 15 or so corn and squash plants germinating in small 6cm pots (in potting soil). I will...

I never heard of drainpipes pots before. Actually, looking at pictures, they look very decorative too! And they keep your plants away from slugs and other pests, which is great. If I had drainpipes in the garden, I would certainly consider getting a few

I found out about the molasses in James Wong's book, "Grow for flavour". Accordingly to him, aside of feeding the plants, it helps beneficial bacteria too. Having no experience with other products, I can only compare with some expensive strawberry feed I bought a few years ago, and molasses...

@Verdun sorry for my slow response thanks for your advice. I do have seedlings to start a new bed so I will plan on just starting again. Guess I'll wait until this year's harvest is finished before tearing the bed out. Sad but.. YUM

Sorry for the late answer!Let me know how it works out, I am actually curious. I am visiting Italy over the next weeks, so I might even pick a few wild plants up and see how they fare here in the UK. Interestingly, years ago my wife managed to transplant to our garden some cuttlings from...

Yes I am limited for space and now health isn't so good. Used to grow most of the 'Berries' when working a large allottment with my father, but that was over fifty years ago. Also whe employed by the MOD. As with home grown produce, you can always tell the difference.

Thanks guys! Some of them are still bare canes so hoping they are still viable and wake up soon! The golden raspberries I planted already have leaves budding so hoping they work! Any tips on what I should do as one is fallgold and the other is malling promise. So a primo and floricane. ...

I've just pulled the last of those leeks planted in clumps, and I've now pricked out so many Leeks that I'll once again pricking some out into clumps, thought I'd re-visit this thread.

I have put the two bags of manure into my two compost bins and spread the Fish Blood and Bone around the canes and have spread the compost on top.

Ah yeah I see your mistake. You're thinking of my Gotta Koala thread on the amateur marsupial keeper forum. No problem though. Easy mistake to make.

Anybody grow ramps i.e Allium tricoccum? I've got the European ramsons or wild garlic - Allium ursinum - in a shady spot in the garden and it does very well - self-seeds quite prolifically - but I've tried to grow the North American A. tricoccum from seed twice now with no joy. I planted them...

I will roast several with dinner see how they are. If they're any good I may pickle the rest.

Received my veggie seed order this week (Carol's flower seed order too [she was looking over my shoulder!] when making my purchase), got my seed potatoes today, Charlotte & Cara along with 15 potato grow bags, looks like silly growing season is just around the corner? Lights, Heat and Compost!!!!!