Edible Gardening

No. Or yes. It depends.Turnip, when grown commercially, is a stupidly big and bland waste of space. But it's most delicious when it's about golf ball size. You have plenty of time to grow it to that size. And the leaves, often discarded, are delicious. You can sow it right into about mid...

@Zigs How's Chopper getting on?

Never mind, I'm being stupid and getting my varieties mixed up!Could an admin delete this thread please?

Epsom will only help if its a magnesium deficiency but looking at the plant i`d say its more likely overfeeding and overwatering. Mg doesnt affect the new growth, its a mobile element so the plant can move it from the older leaves, hence thats where symptoms show up first. The chlorosis/necrosis...

Hi,The year before last were bought a collection of 5 dwarf fruit trees, as popularly advertised, consisting of two apple, one cherry, plum and pear.Last year the apple trees fruited, one ok the other much less, though we did thin them out with them being so young. No flowers or fruit on...

Three years or so ago, I planted small San Marzanos in well-drained buckets i.e. several 10mm holes drilled in the bottom, then filled with grow bag compost. They were grown from seeds propogated care of a punnet of Tesco toms; a scenario that was probably asking for trouble and needed a lot of...

Tomatoes are very tough plants you can train them how you like. Pinching out the top won't damage the plant but you might not get any flowers/fruit. If you have a couple of trusses below the top then that is all you will get. Pinching out will encourage all the side-shoots to grow and you could...

Thank you

They should be ready when they go yellowish and start to shrivel, so worth having a look at one.

Thanks for the advice, I'll get some more planted then. As for blackfly, mine also had some but pinching out the tips stopped that. Some of the plants DO have some "rust" (it all but killed one plant yet the rest aren't badly affected) but even rust-affected pods have good beans inside.

It could be stressed due to a dry winter and spring and now our hot weather. I would defo water as Zigs says, at least a gallon every day..

heehee, excellent plum potential there, @fat controller - hope they don't get too bruised!

The good news is there's still time to sow more for this season. Wilko is selling late sowing Kelvedon Wonder for a quid :-)

When do I remove the cloches? When the leaves turn green again with obvious signs of growth.I put a runner bean plant in the corner to get some extra mileage out of the planting space.There is also a sweet potato slip planted next to it. This was propagated from a Morrisons sweet...

I just wondered if I could now transplant these plants as I have a raised bed which is now empty.They are currently in about 4" pots and are starting to get a bit rangy.On the packet it said plant out in spring but sure whether or not they will last in pot's as these were the only pot's I had...

Oh yes, forgot Martin....

I used to eat a lot of sugar snaps. Not had then for a while. With ordinary peas you can weed out the maggots, with Mange tout and sugar snaps you dont.Really good if you like meat with your veg.

Not growing any this year myself, but I have grown them in pots for many years previously.I usually use 9 in pots, and I have been known to prune out a few side shoots, but not all. also I usually reduce the amount of fruit forming, the plants often set far more than they can cope with.My...

I've planted one of mine in a woven supermarket carrier bag which was in the back of the cupboard doing nothing

A few more radish photo's, last ones I promise. Cherries and tape measure for a sense of scale.Steve...