Edible Gardening

Hi All,Thank you all very much for your replies and advice. I'll have a go at the suckers tomorrow as well at cutting back the main stem. I'll then start thinning after the tree has fruited when we have a dry spell... Which in this country is about 3 days!Thanks againNgt.

Good tip, we get through plenty of those. Cheers.

And he'll be needing good dentures to enjoy the fruits of his labours.....

We've had our bed producing for oh, 15 years. Every year I have the same question, but this time I know where to go. Many spears come up, some nice and thick but most thin and spindly. I always wonder whether the bed is getting old; whether we don't feed them enough; or whether the thin ones are...

I have just discovered the search bar function on here and found a historic thread: it seems to answer all of my questions. It seems like the Jonagold needs two other apple trees to polinate it to have any chance of getting fruit. You must be lucky Pam, you must have another apple tree in...

Devious is my middle name! I've spent most of my life working out, legal, ways around stupid rules and regulations. It's a, sort of, hobby of mine! (Sad, I know ). I've done it for myself, friends, clubs, businesses (big and small) and even a local authority.

As Kristen says, doing both would be the best bet. I always plant at least two beans per cane. You can never have enough beans!!!

I don't think it will be blight at this stage of the season, it looks more like Botrytis. You've done the right thing isolating it.

I sowed some Runner Beans a while back, they have all germinated...unfortunately I have got the ground prepared and they have gone a bit leggy..... Can I put them in the ground deeper than what they are growing in their trays at the moment. Cheers...

Wotcha Freddy Thanks - I will get another couple of the deep bags cleared of last year's compost and get sowing. Each bag is sort of divided into three, and each third should cope with a couple of 18-inch rows (maybe three at a push), so my idea is to sow from one end working to the other...

do you also want a bite or a kilobyte or a megabite?

That is so very helpful. Many thanks indeed. I await the result!! Kind regards. Andrew

After many years I've Almost, and I stress, almost given up on peaches. Peach leaf curl has been a big problem for me in recent years, up to the point that I now only have a small tree, which I sprayed with copper back in March. Its showing signs of leaf curl already. The problem does seem...

Thank you That's what I thought.

Saw this as a tree at The Temperate House, Kew, amazing and strange looking tree. Good luck growing it! I'm going to miss The Temperate House whilst it's being done up, to me the plants grown in there, could be grown by us. Whereas the Palm House is like Disneyland, a once only growing...

I've raised a few Iceberg and Little Gem in the greenhouse, most are now outside, either in the ground or in unused hamster cages awaiting planting out!

I’m sure it’s possible. But, it would take a massive investment of time plus of course land space. Once upon a time we were about 50% to 75% self-sufficient for fruit and veg but increasing professional workloads resulted in us having less time available for food production and preservation. In...

Thanks Spruce, will cut back on the watering. Really pleased I've actually got some this year as they all failed miserably last year.

Pudding was lovely

ee's already full of Sorrel. Just wish he'd grazed the lawn next to it while he was here.