Edible Gardening

Hello JWK here is the cauliflower variety as best I can make out as I have ripped off the top of the packet and looking back through my files they were first planted as seeds on the 26th of March.Hope this helpsCheers Jord

Another update from my two passiflora incarnata:Slugs love them while they are young! Both where completely ravished by slugs, but managed to grow back with a little bit of help. A slug collar stopped the assault and after growing a bit the slugs seem to have lost interest.One plant has...

I use a mild soap on beans to keep off greenfly, never thought to use it on cauliflower so worth a try. I think you should try and spray under your leaves as soap relies on contacting the bug's body to be effective.

Well. I hope it works for you @Perki , that was a big move to make. I'm really not sure if it is a pest problem or a weather related problem. But whatever it is, up till now it hasn't affected the other two vines.I have had some grapes off of the Lakemont and they were ok.

Hopefully nobody within that distance grows ornamentals. I don't know anyone in the village that does.

Had a butternut squash last 9 months ...

Only got the first female flower on my polytunnel Piccolo di Parigi Gherkin plants a couple of days ago

Send them up here can motor my way through at least 2 a day, love melon. This is the biggest I have so far, ok no sniggering. Still pretty small but it is getting bigger. I live in hope.I am now starting to remove all the side shoots and any more females and males as have at least 3 females...

I am not sure that's M-Virus . Is it just one leaf or multiple leaves ? Other than the white dots the leaves look healthy , it looks more like a burn marking to me . Have you got anymore pictures of the whole plant or plants

Fruit should be very shiny. If it loses it's shine, it's past it. Use secateurs to snip the stem and take it by the fruit end. They've got vicious spines!

My black berries are a couple of weeks away. Not a cultivated variety but just a bed of brambles, even so, the fruit is fairly large and I usually end up with more than I can handle, was still making wine from last years back in March.

Thanks for the advice ricky101. The only crops that I'm really interested in at the moment are potatoes and onions though that may change. I have unlimited access to farmyard muck so I'll give it a go next year and see what happens.

Not really, just water. I will give them a feed and bring them back inside.

Maybe I was a bit worried ( not that much as isn’t exactly life threatening!) for nothing as just lifted most of the crop.May god the bulbs have grown enormously since I last had a wee look. It has been wet and then very very hot so presume that is the reason. Still don’t know if the thicker...

I know citrus are not ericacaous plants, but I do believe they prefer soil slightly on acid side.Not sure the calcium in the eggshell is a good idea.

Well people have early varieties these days, but to me they were always a winter veg from around November to February, never used to start picking until after the first frost.

How do you mean, too early, most times plants that need longer warmer growing conditions need planting early.

Magnesium deficient? Spray some epsom salts on them and feed with some tomorite maybe ?

Rheum x hybridum 'Livingstone' (PBR) | rhubarb 'Livingstone'/RHS GardeningAnybody grow it?I don't eat Rhubarb, but Mrs Scrungee likes it and wants to carry on picking it which almost kills the plants some years. Saw this 'Livingstone' late season stuff and wondered if worth getting some for...

Your peas and spinach look better than mine, as usual my spinach is running to seed. My peas were only half the size compared to a normal year. The weather hasn't helped. I grow both these crops in succession so I have later sowings that are looking better.You nip off the leaves of spinach to...