Edible Gardening

Hi JJ Re: Blackberry Mine has been quite well behaved - not strayed off piste! Being the good gardener I am not - I have long forgotten the variety! Should be a thread for menopausal gardeners - I would probably forget to check it lol! happy gardening

Growing. Addictive? We shan't talk like this shall we? Tings get spindly when it gets too hot, also. You could try get some air moving. I've seen conservatories too hot to grow cacti

I believe they are best grown as a cordon - that is how mine will be grown I just need to work out what to do with my surplus lotSent from my HTC One_M8 using Tapatalk

so have me and my family. We rarely ever use pectin/jam sugar

Best get it out while you still know where it is.Casn't find it once the tops die back

this is our radish arrangementand the finished product

Note you can get these from the pound shop too!

Why don't you just fill it with nasturtium? They'll grow without your help once established, and will smother any weeds while at the same time adding structure to the soil, and of course you can eat every part of the plant. When winter comes, they'll all die, and you can then just dig them in...

Your garden always sounds amazing Kristen. Have you a video of a walk through?Here you must rotate crops because of disease and pests - the nutrients always were a huge issue but now we can bypass that with fertilizers. That is the best way to do it Vince. I would find growing...

Never could work out what the big rush was about in planting spuds. If the ground is cold they dont grow anyway.About now they will take off and not look back.

As bexy says, rocket self seeds very easily. However if you leave it just to self seed then you'll get it all at the same time and as mentioned in that quote you really need to keep sowing to get a continuous crop as it bolts very quickly. So you'll need to collect some seeds and sow them...

You cant beat the old £1 bucket as a planter - you also get a built in carry handle !

Good idea never done that b4

Interesting to see Scotch Bonnet up there near the top. They are hot, but possibly not as hot as I'd have expected for the top five.

I think that I found I could tie the bottom of the twine off around the base of the plant as it had gotten to the stage where it wasnt going to get much bigger - but if I hadnt noticed that it had gone slack it probably would have dumped the plant on the floor when I wasnt looking.

The other option is to "layer" them, rather than take the growing tip out.I don't "stop" mine until one month before I expect first frost in the Autumn. If they hit the greenhouse roof before then I train them in some way (some years by layering them) to give them some more growing height /...

Thanks, I've put 2 into big planters this afternoon, and left them outside overnight. They are sheltered on 2 sides by my house and my greenhouse so hopefully they will be ok. I'll see how they go for a week then put the rest out if these 2 do ok.I need space in my popup greenhouse for my...

I will do btw i planted johns toms and i have 9 of them so might not get to use them this year x :D

To be honest @JWK, I preferred the tomato seeds you sent........

Great advice as usual Kristen. I always manage to sow far too many lettuce seed in 1 go as the seed is as light as a feather, breath too hard over your packet of seed and it's whoooooshed off everywhere. I currently have about 30 lettuce growing all of the same age (that's after they have been...