Edible Gardening

Couple of weeks time GA

Well I still find 1 or 2 slugs 'n' snails in the greenhouse, but mostly they see the pot there & decide to pop over the wall into next door... :-) Sadly slug-away as pictured is actually of the blue-pellet-of-death variety, so not recommended for pets or small children (or large ones, come to...

Thank you Freddy, Will get the soil tested

come to ireland. the rhubarb is growing wild on rural roads. regards nijinski

Mr Loli comented on my carrots last year saying "they were too carroty".....which to be fair they were quite strong (early Nantes) but i think our taste buds aren't used to the proper taste of the veg....take a tomatoe for instance or a cabbage...they taste totally different to 'shop' bought...

Never done it, but often intended to: transplant the odd few left over / weedy leek plants at the end of the season into the ornamental part of the garden to clear the way for the next crop.

Thanks for the advice , well....took a chance and cleared out all the old canes and the tops of some of canes that were dead wood on top but a good growth below, and with all the weeds and grass gone, this hopefully will allow some air around the bottom of the canes. After clearing, we were...

You must be in despair, Ariadae. I have two squash seedlings still at the seed leaf stage. Might as well plant them out, nothing else I can do with them. I might be lucky. They are the remnants of a 6 cell tray in a heated propagator. The 4 that rotted got resown, still no joy. I don't...

Hello and welcome Do you have much space near sunny windows, or a balcony or anything? It would help if we knew how much room you have and how much light that space gets. Apart from those already mentioned, how about peppers and chillis, and various herbs. Think what is expensive to buy...

I'm growing these for the first time this year - about to plant out 3 plants in large pots as soon as we get another warm spell and train them up a trellis. Will this be ok? Do they need really big pots? Any other pointers? I was going to feed with organic tomato feed once fruits...

Just spoke to the company and sent them pics and they agreed to replace the 3 dead 'uns, no quibbles. So 'props to Van Meuwen', as the yout dem say.

Thank you Zigs The ground she is planted in is clay, but this year has been the first year where we have actually not had it waterlogged (although it has been in the past). We have dug in a lot of grit, soil improver, compost etc, and over the past years grown potatoes in it (was told that could...

I had these over wintering onions called swift, pulled in may or june the were larger than tennis balls and lasted the rest of the year. Don.

Hi Ooshmi, I'm in London too and my climbing french beans have started flowering too. Once the beans start producing be sure to pick often, this will encourage further flowering/beans.

Hi Loofah I did contact seller and he said spots were due to heavy rain, which was confirmed by RHS and new shoots should not be affected. He also said before delivery they spray trees with a fungicide so no problem there. I have in fact given this tree to my son as he has more space in his...

Mine went the same as the ones in your photos but I had a lovely crop(they were started in the greenhouse).

Thanks, will have a look for that in my garden centre!!

I know absolutely nothing about cherry trees as there's loads growing 'wild' (planting schemes) locally that I gather my harvest from. But I seem to recollect coming across (what might be) this problem whilst searching online for uses of Bordeaux Mixture.

Hiya. I believe K/Wonder grow to around 4ft? In terms of space, I would guess that you have enough room for a row, as you suggest. My only concern would be that there might not be enough light. Having said that, I grew some in a shaded area in the garden last year, and got a good crop. Give it...

Hopefully we are gonna make a sort of seating arrangement Yesterday we picked up a posh gazebo thingy, got it for £30, woman said she paid nearly £300 for it last year, but didnt screw it down so the wind blew it over and it has a tear in the roof about a foot long..... good job I have a sewing...