Edible Gardening

I reckon it will break up if you tread it just as its drying after a good downpour?Might be best left open for the winter to have a crack at it, but otherwise how about a green manure over winter? Something with fibrous roots is suppose to break up clay I think (from memory) and Field Beans...

Shimsham has posted this question in the Tomato Growing 2013 thread.

In my opinion you need to do it now, making Nettle tea will take too long.Reason for not doing it later is Nitrogen will stimulate soft growth, and you want the plant to have time to harden that growth up before the winter.

They are light sussex,pure white is white sussex x

Chickens? Do they need to overwinter indoors? Ours wander the garden Summer or Winter, Rain or Shine ...I would have thought they would have wrecked any plants in a confined area - scrabbling about. Mine do!

Yes, it's true that some bees get the nectar by boring a hole in the back of the flower. This will usually result in that flower not producing beans at all. The problem of baby beans dropping off is a different matter.

Jalapeño I taste my jalapeño a month ago and they just tasted green with no heat,while moving them today I knocked two off the plant well I had to give one a taste and wow nearly blew my head off, my Misses tasted it as well and could take the heat. I had the rest with my pasta and for my first...

After a bit more research I rather think it's something called a hornworm; the damage does look like images I've found on Google.The websites below might be useful for anyone with a similar problem. They - the critters! - are a bloomin' nuisance, but there doesn't seem to be a ready way of...

Mine is 2 metre and as you say as soon as the butter flies are done I will be redoing it all with just bird protection in mind. Not too worried about the snow as we don't seem to get much if any and that tends to be in march not sure if my sprouting broccoli will be done by then not grown it...

Mark, sorry but they are too far behind to produce anything this year. Really they would need to have some flowers and a small fruit forming to stand any chance of growing and ripening before it gets too cold. Most of us sow them in March/April and plant them out in May/June - at least you have...

Thanks the photo is just a portion if it i have around 50 toms growing in it its in a potatoe grow bag with 6inch of woodchip mulch and a layer of chicken manure pellets for feedSent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I have had this too before so I started leaving them a week or so before boiling and the seam a lot better

I gave them another spray yesterday, and have fed them today with Miracle Gro as I got the feeling that they (along with other stuff) was deficient in nitrogen. They are already looking perkier, so fingers crossed.

My lemon drops must have heard me - two of them are turning yellow! Still don't have much fruit though.

Would they be happy on the shady side, or would they want the sunnier side (for all the sun we get over winter)?What about swede for the shadier border?

The carrots are cooking in my slow cooker as we post! Along with a bunch of green beans from my garden. Mmmm mmm !Sent from my GT-N7000

Taking the bottom leaves off might improve airflow around the plants. It`d be less favourable for fungus and keeping leaves off the soil is good from a blight point of view. Toms dont need light to ripen so its not going to help with that

In addition to John's advice if you harvest on a dry day just leave them on the soil surface for a few hours. Hardens the skins before they get knocked together in the storage sack / bag. Don't leave them there for days though or they will all go green !

True! And I do have a few things, beetroot, Aubergines, tomatoes, spring onions and coriander

Europeans?Thought it was Prince and the Revolution.Gonna slice em, salt em & fry em