Edible Gardening

I need to do a fruit cage its just the price of netting stopping me. I have plenty of debris netting but it wont let the bees through

I dilute to the colour of weak tea, and put Comfrey Tea on things that are fruiting - Tomatoes, Cucumbers, Melons, Peppers and Aubergines in my case.

I have some plastic sheeting, white one side and black t'other. Cheers, Tony.

Not my picture I'm afraid Madahhilia . I robbed it off of pinterest. You could always use water saving crystals to aid the watering. I was going to try this but alas I think I would rather grow them in a pallet and grow some cut and come again salad leaves in the short bit of gutter I have.

Sheeple find them convenient I expect

Same with blackberries - bend down a stem and bury it - another plant in no time. Here our native blackberries are ground cover that is sparse and usually will not get over a foot and a half tall, not too thick. It is a viney, incredibly spiny thing. The berries are not very sweet or large,...

Typical woman ... blame the man!Us men need no such excuse - "Couldn't afford not to have it" does for us

Starting the small purple potatoes in pots a couple months ago. I did not sprout them first, just a bag of them from the market - they are not seed potatoes. I then fill the pot as they grow and now they are above the pot rim.The soil is 3 parts composted oak leaves (I compost 3000 lbs a...

Touche Kristen!Steve...

Scrungee.....W still have imperial measurements here but decimal money with our own version of the English pound.....just to make it more confusing!

For anybody that may be interested, I received a reply to an email that was sent to me by Mr Chris Margrave, the Head Gardener at Clumber Park's Walled Kitchen Garden. This gentleman is certainly in the know where rhubarb is...

I don't know a lot about it but I have read:1. Liming the hole as you plant into it provides some useful protection against Club Root 2. First grow the plants on as long as you can in pots. 3. Grow a Club Resistant varietyVery contagious, and lots of weeds in the Brassica family to cause it...

We need a groan smiley

I had bought 12 packs of strawberry crowns, tiny dead looking things - someone had gotten them wet I think and in the plastic they rotted. I had half live and half die so bagged the dead ones in the bags which I had kept and returned them for two more bags which looked as bad. I planted those...

They fruit on last years wood so anything you cut off will not fruit this year - but I would whack it to be in line with the rest of the plant. It will not hurt it. Ph is the main thing with blueberries, 5 is about right, so very acidic.I cut two new long and leggy plants like that to less...

About the best general veg and fruit growing book I've come across is "The Vegetable and Fruit Expert" by Dr. D.G. Hessayon. It won't answer all you questions but will give you very good general guidance. I was given a copy about ten years ago and refer to it frequently. I was in our local Tesco...

Seems it's quite good for you too. Coming from an Irish family, we eat a lot of this (with boiled bacon) as kids.

Celeriac mash

Our greenhouse has all auto opening vents (5 on one side 2 on the other ) so the temp doesn't get too warm in there at the moment - but when there big enough to pot on ill try and keep them cool

BTW, that's a nice gert big Onion