Edible Gardening

I seem to have naff germination of old saved fennel seeds, but probably sufficient for my needs this year.

Aubergines are a whitefly magnet

My leaves have developed tiny brown speckles after the caterpillar attack; I doubt they are related but synchronous.

Bought a number of F1 Cucumber plants ... all kicked off well ... then 2 weeks in one of them looks particularly sickly ... limp leave with discolouration ... as per pic.In case it was mineral take up, I sprayed last 3 days with Epsom salts .... but no improvement ... any clues ...the nearest...

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Hi all had a very busy day in the garden removed loads of weed and bushes to replace it with weed membrane and bark.looks loads tidier.raddish are coming up nicely about 1cm tall have 2 peppers in a large pot now.ones I brought yesterdayalao just sown some spring onions and carrots in the...

Thanks all for your advice.

Mostly we eat them fresh in salads or in sandwiches etc. By the end of the summer we usually have too many, some are given away to friends and family, the rest we make into soup/sauce and freeze.I'm not growing Goliath, must be someone else?

Vetch and Rye mix grows well on my heavy soil, and produces the best biomass of all green manure crops. Hungarian rye grass quickly draws up the soils nutrients and holds it until you dig it back in (stops it being washed away in winter rain), Vetch (Tares) produces nitrogen when dug back...

Fruit trees in pots are great things. Perhaps a grape too? They can be whacked back when the leaves drop to just a bare trunk 3 foot long - then kept in the shed till time to leaf out. Also the way to get them is those cheap dry rooted ones. They do not want good soil and lush conditions.

Very thorough rinse! Some people suggest rinsing at least twice.Watch out for mermaids

Hi Williebee,thats a good support ,that's how I used to grow mine when I was bit of a showman.What I did was left it in the same place for a number of year and every winter dug out a trench the length and width then put all my waist into the trench(any thing that would rot down)over the winter...

CluelessIn USA almost all landowners of decent sized tracts of land lease out the hunting rights to individuals or clubs, usually this is about the amount of real estate tax. (in USA all land pays a tax based on the property value to the county. This pays for local government, schools,...

I think mines about to bolt...live n learn ,i shall sow more

We cropped ours for just a few weeks in Year 2 - rather than a couple of months, as we do now its established. The less you take the more the plants will establish ... so apart from having a taster-tester-meal you might want to just leave them be until next year ?

There are solutions to this problem.Firstly, you can buy ready made self watering containers. I've never tried them myself, but I like the concept. Basically they have a reservoir of water in the bottom, and the soil is held just above this such that it draws water up from the reservoir by...

@clueless1, Cluey, we love coriander and I'm up for trying it next to the tumtum tree* as you suggest, as larger quantities would not go unused in my kitchen. More seeds are in the packet; well-rotted horse manure is to be had, just up the road a piece. How long to leave manure down before...

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Thank you thank you! I do need to stake them as I thought I killed one by putting it in the greenhouse yesterday it drooped but miraculously sorted itself out after a day in the sun. They're too tall for the shelves in my greenhouse, I'm going to have to dismantle the top one haha