Edible Gardening

No idea as to the kale we have growing in our tunnel (from a seed packet with BBC Gardeners World mag) but we have been harvesting it since April last year. Cutting back the stems and then taking the kale allowed the remaining part of the plant to send up new growth and these then develop and we...

I've grown Tromboncino before. Strong, healthy plants, quite productive, impressive fruits.I found them a little bit but not very much like food!I've never grown them again....

Absolutely agree, normally our postie does the same for me and takes letters etc if already stamped saving a round trip of about 5 miles to the nearest PO or PO box. The issue with the onion sets was unusual and maybe not the usual postman. I have always found The Royal Mail vastly superior to...

I second garlic and it can be sown the moment the ground is no longer frozen up until late february I believe.The first crop I grew was cucumbers. I grew "Telepathy F1" and it made enormous fruit which was fun. Cuces need a big trellis though, at least 2 metres tall, I used bamboo I already...

Bubble wrap is ok if you remove it when the weather changes, but figs are hardy. Is it in a pot, looks like it, as if it is its mostly about protecting the roots rather than the top growth.I've never had any frost damage on mine, but its planted in the ground.

I thought I read somewhere that Gardening Which had done some trials and found not much difference between ericaceous and ordinary compost, but I can't find it now.

Thanks for your replies, food for thought. You've given me great encouragement Stephen. I'll give it a go for two years then decide whether to proceed further.

I make mini tarts with squash. I roast (ive even microwaved it) the pumpkin with as little skin exposed as you can, then mash or puree it, then add 1 egg per half a pound or so, and sugar and spice to taste. Then into shortcrust tarts like done for jam or mince tarts, sprinkle sugar on top and...

Onions need to be free of over shadowing, certainly by potatoes and also carrots (and weeds !) I find that carrots are best left undisturbed by weeding or thinning as it is the smell of disturbed carrot foliage that attracts carrot fly.

Ours are planted in the soil in the tunnel. They are given a fresh amount of compost but not watered during the winter.

Most of those aren't, I've tried a few times. I assume because of the way they are dried. I've got more luck from dried Indian Kashmiri chillis which I grew once but they didn't do well for me in terms of yieldMexgrocer is very good for dried cooking mexican chillis and much better value than...

Thanks @noisette47 . Absolutely agree flat ones are a pain in the posterior. Maybe ok if you don’t have to deal with peeling them! The Setton sets are quite a bit more expensive than Sturon but the yield is meant to be better so might give them a go.

you can force them like germans do as "spargel" if you have the effort. rabbits cant get the shoots if theyre under a pot but you need to let some grow into full stems even in harvesting years

That's an excellent article @pete .

I grow about 20 in my greenhouse borders. They are about 2 weeks earlier than the same variety outside and are larger, also suffering no rust which can affect outside onesSoftnecks need less vernalization than hardnecks, there's still plenty of time for hardnecks in the uk though

As above, remove damaged leaves, the plants should survive and will continue to grow through the milder parts of winter. Its a good thing to remove scorched and split outer leaves in Jan/Feb to get a burst of new growth into Spring. I have in previous years past , taken a swap hook to them to...

I would say that it's age, Crown Rot causes the top of the root to go black and soft, in the picture the top appears to be like an expected rhubarb crown. You can either buy new crowns, or split the existing ones, if they have good buds on them anywhere. I would also dig a lot of manure/compost...

Oh brilliant thankyou for finding it , @ricky101 , I will have a look at that. Yes, perhaps a bit more than I could cope with, presently.

Garlic would be fine to plant now. Use a clean area, plant 20cm apart, 7cm deep and mulch lightly.

Thanks for all of your replies, I think they're quite watery so I'll give the extra water a miss. Nice to know there's someone out there that can point me in the right direction.