Edible Gardening

Thanks everyone for their input. I've taken a few cuttings and put one pot outside and the other 2 on the kitchen window.This is the tree I'm going to have to leave behindLots of pencil sized straight growth coming from parts that I pruned hard back last winter

You don't give the size or, more importantly, the depth of the old pond - advice will depend on that. Before worrying about how to fill the bed, ensure that you have drilled holes in the concrete base to allow excess water to drain away. You could well have a drought for part of the year but...

Agree, but here it is a gooseberry being pruned.

Stepovers might be better in that situationI planted two cordon apples on our east facing wall more than ten years and although they blossom, it's only this year that we had a very small crop. However I have very rarely watered them so that might be why, plants have to sink or swim in this...

I got my parents a little miss figgy fig tree last year so if it grows well i will take a cutting , i got my medlar tree yesterday took nearly 2 weeks to arrive bare root sealed in a big green bag , just considering now do i put it with other apple trees or ither side of garden beside the rown...

tumeric makes for a good dye with cotton based stuff but it leeches slowly so dont wash it with other stuff. I dyed string with it to make gold decorations for christmas. just a small amount of powder (i guess crush the live root instead), in with some boiling water and the string for 13 hours...

could be more like the italian snake gourds. same species different variety. the asiian ones are more... waterbottle shaped

Last time I grew a pumpkin, pictures from 2011. I never ate any of it, I gave it to a mate and I think it ended up just getting destroyed so not bothered since.

Not sure if this helps or not but as my tag line says I'm a lifelong Allotmenter. Every season is different. I still have failures as well as sucesses, as long as you have more sucess overall thats what matters The advantage of an Allotment space is it's dedicatwd to one purpose, growing...

Without leaf it will not grow bigger. It is at risk of damage from slugs and (soon) rain. Depending on its future use, harvest and store in a dry, airy space. Cut it with a section of stem, as if a handle but do not rely on this to lift if it is heavy. For halloween use, carve as required only a...

i just bought some more do you find they take frost fine? how do you grow them over winter? i am new to lettuce, i have some good looking oak leaf ones right now that have maybe 5 big leaves eachthe seeds were 2 years old and germinated reasonably well in the warm

I bought Autumn planting Sets, and have good success of overwintered crops.

It was last week sometime. They are very small, as you might expect! They also had tayberries and thornless blackberries.

Thanks folks. Does this make the potatoes inedible?

Remembered the last pumpkin that we had stored in the porch. Good thing that I did as some of it was starting to go. So baked some in the oven last night and now in the freezer. Then this morning continued peeling etc and made (even though I say it myself) a fabulous soup that we have just had...

Everyone has their own particular reason for growing, or not growing, edibles. Over the years we have changed what we do but I agree that seeds have become relatively more expensive.We no longer grow root veg simply because of advancing years and the need for more bending and digging. With...

I'm a little late this year with winter green sowing - wild rocket, valdor lettuce, garlic kale and red russian kale all showing from a sowing a couple of weeks ago... ...and then today sown more rocket, turnip greens, chard, oriental salads, claytonia, and cress, in an unheated greenhouse. I'll...

Lovely harvestI tried black hamburg in my greenhouse but pulled it out as it was too big and got botyritis badly.then two years ago I bought two Supaga vines in a sale and put one down the allotment outside and one in my back garden. The back garden one is on an east facing wall but I'm trying...

Too exotic for me but this guy has a clue or three;;;

the red flowered ones are hybrids with another genus, potentilla, or descendents of those hybrids, and are not as good at making fruits. They do still set but are more fragile