Edible Gardening

Nearly a year on and I'm still not having much luck.I've down on my little veg patch in my garden this year spring onions and some carrots.Eventually a few seedlings popped up and I began putting slug pellets down every week. Yet still my carrot seedlings have all disappeared (I suspect...

Do you know what rootstock it is on? Might be a dwarfing rootstock better suited to container growing than "field" ...I wish Lidl et al didn't flog Apples - makes people make a snap decision without considering the longer term - which requires right rootstock, a pollination partner (different...

Thanks. No earthing up for you then? I think I'll try a few in pots in the greenhouse now and a few straight into the soil next month and see how I get on. Thanks for your help :-)

Thankyou for reminding me, I need to put out 6 seeds of a bush green bean. I have yellow wax bush beans about a foot tall, and yard long climbing beans six inches tall (my favorite, do very well in this hot climate and will fruit till October) so for succession I should start a couple more of...

I've told you a hundred million times not to exaggerate But you are correct, everything just seems to be blooming at the moment, just hope that I haven't upset the God of gardening by saying that

Thanks, I'm reading it now and will follow it. Good luck!Much obliged Nick, I'll message you now and let you know what I have going spare, if anything takes your interest we can swap :-)Yeah, I came to the same conclusion myself. Esp not having a greenhouse, I don't have the time and...

My asparagus are messing me about - playing dead but still there. I have a hope they may have a next flush

It goes against conventional advice, but I'd leave them on. Then you'll get some fruit instead of no fruit. By the end of the year you'll have probably 5 times as many plants for next year anyway.My dad adopted this strategy with about a dozen young plants he bought about 5 years ago. Now...

am I correct in thinking Rhododendrons need acidic soil ? if so I think were acid the local woods are full of them - but I best get a kit and check

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Mine is a Madeleine Sylvaner, I suspect this is a wine grape not a dessert grape. It produces quite a few bunches but the grapes stay small and often split as though watering is an issue. The flavour is good although they are very seedy. Also, it is inclined to get a bit of powdery mildew late...

So long as the bottom growth is above the "graft" then just cut off the top dead bit and encourage the bottom growth.Apple trees grow quickly when they are young, so it should replace the damaged part, and a fair bit more, before the summer is out. (Provided it isn't on a dwarf rooting stock,...

I have read that commercial growers often turn on a water spray if frost is coming, with the science being that as water traps a lot of heat, it prevents any sudden change of temperature. As for the frost magnifying the sun, possible, but the explanation I read was that the sudden change in...

Thanks @Lolimac - I will need to go and get more sand at the weekend then. Need to get the carrot sowing started or I will end up with nowt again!

I don't think so, no.

'Inbreeding depression' is the term you need to Google to get the minimum number of plants to set seed to ensure healthy seeds.

Hiya Jenny!! I just wanted to let you know that the seeds arrived this morning....thanks again.

Ah, well if the 1cm netting will be sufficient, I have that already (and can easily get more); I'm thinking a couple of half barrels each for brussels and kale (I have 14 half barrels total), then three half barrels for carrots with 6 of the front 7 being dedicated to lettuce, spring onions and...

In Southern hot climates strawberries are grown as an annual, The dry rooted plants go in and six months later are plowed in for the next crop. I think you could do this by adjusting light length to fool them - and harvesting runners for the next set of plants. Make them think they are in...

I've never grown them before, and planted mine end of October. Like yours they are looking really healthy an covered in flowers.Rusty