Edible Gardening

I once had a lettuce and salad cream sarny. I was just about to bite into it when I say two beady eyes appear on stalks, and a tiny slug popped out to say hello.

Thanks very much Marley

Bet they're glad they're not outside. I am!

Super thanks Kirsten !

I grow rainbow coloured radishes and hot chillies, purple sprouts and kale BUT I will not grow purple carrots. I saw them once on sainsbury's shelf, dis-coloured, wrinkled and limp, they looked like something that I won't touch without gloves on!! Sorry if any resulting image may ruin your...

Yeah, and I do do that. As a "beginner" thread I thought best to keep it straightforward though. Definitely an option, albeit I suspect many would regard it as controversial

I have an interest in growing strawberries and wish to add more varieties to my collection. Does anyone know a supplier of many varieties where I can purchase a couple of each? I have looked without success.

Thank you for all your advice, I will keep you updated.

I reckon new strawberry plants will be fine outside from now. Strawberries are as tough as old boots. Mine keep surviving (and multiplying) outside, and my dad, who bought a tray of 6 young plants about 5 years ago now has about quarter of his allotment full of them.

Go for 'Chard - Bright Lights' or 'Rainbow Chard'. Neither of which is actually chard at all, but is actually a beet. Very closely related to the common old beetroot. Then you can call it leaf beet instead of chard, and you wont even be fibbing.

Think that one will go on my list of lunch box salads to take to work!!! I have a pot of seedlings on my kitchen window sill at the mo..........

I tend to keep the same crop on the same place for the season but I'm rather nervous about doing so because cabbage root-flies and mealy aphids are big problems for me. No sign of the little blighters doesn't mean they are not lurking around. My usual practice is to plant, cross my fingers and...

Cerys Welcome to GC The academic year isn't well matched to much gardening, is it. I agree that a herb planter would be good but have you also considered sprouting seeds? You can grow those all year round on your windowsil and are considered a 'super' food; can be grown in less than a...

As an olf phart and buying 'stuff' on Wednesday (as it's 10% off) from B & Q, I saw there were ginger tubers/corms for sale outside. Cheers, Tony.

I ended up with her on an 18/30s holiday.

And from another albeit new Yorkshire grower, that was a very good post

For me, largely yes. I don't like you to pesticides on principle (that they are toxic to everything), but I have no issues at all with chemical fertilisers and I wont hesitate to use RoundUp if I see my arch nemesis, Bindweed. The rules are simple for me. If it will harm things that I would...

It'll pick up again when the light levels increase. You might want to repot it with some fresh compost as it will have had most of the nutrient away with those fruits. james swann will be along in a bit to put me right

Hello and welcome to GC. My french beans usually grow to about 18 inches (45cm) in height. Sorry, can't help you with the broccoli though, never grown that variety before.

Not sure I agree with that. Yes there is a risk that in a lousy year they won't ripen before first-frost, although short-season varieties bred for UK - like CobNut and Hunter should give a crop even in bad years, although the further North the more of a challenge that will be. It isn't a...