Edible Gardening

Thanks sal73 . You could well be right about pollination..I hadn't thought of that! Let's hope we have a better summer this year, with lots of buzzy things to do the necessary...

We had ours outside under perspex and they came out about three weeks earlier than otherwise.

Broad bean tops , Did you know they make a very tasty Veg, Just drop them into boiling salted water about 5 mins drain knob of butter think of all those vitamins !

My seeds have arrived The lemon chilli seeds state that they are slow to germinate and quite a warm soil, so they are a definite to sow early and indoors. I don't have a propagator, so I will just have to hope that the heat of the house will be enough. I am going to get some of the endive...

I bad! You need to put the wet paper towel and seeds in a zip bag - the baggie method. I also found that scraping a knife along the back of the seed helps germination (you can see the bump where the roots come out of the seed). I attach a pic of the roots 2 weeks in the airing cupboard.

you are most welcome

OK this year I will try both methods on my earlies, Must remember which is which, and I will continue from there I suppose both methods require similar work input, as one requires earthing up the other requires weeding Jack McH

smashing, cheers vince!!

I think I'm going to have to bite the bullet and raise the plants in the greenhouse. he tip about planting a seed for each plant is a a good one, should be warm enough by then.

Sam, my tree is about 4m tall. With judicious pruning, it's easy enough to keep them shorter.

Thanks for.the replies I will get them sorted next week Cheers

After growing them from seed many years ago I still get plants self seeding on the allotment each year. They are very easy to grow and overwinter if grown in a pot. In fact you get a better crop the second year as the plants are fairly slow starters. You can have ripe fruit from August...

That'll probably be an M27 rootstock for the apples then

Indeed, I also don't buy-in Brassica or Leek plants ... just in case.

Thanks for that.

Yep, they've had plenty cold, i'm tempted to take a couple out and stick them in a pot somewhere warmer, ie my blowaway greenhouse and see if they come on faster, if at all. I don't want to end up without! Those i grew myself last year, and planted this year, are looking fab along with my...

i can never bring myself to chuck seedlings out i always end up sowing ton's more than i need (i think everyone does) so every year i have to make emergency seed trays/pots from cereal boxes, milk cartons ect and when the weathers mild enough pop them in a sheltered spot in the garden to grow...

I don't find them difficult I just plant four on top of my compost heap and forget about them,unless the weather is exceptionally dry then I water them.My suggestion to you is dig an18" square hole under each plant and bang a big dollop of (chocolate/chocolate cake/soup/ manure) then cover...

The seeds that i sent, were OP and were also a later season pepper, mine at first looked like a cayenne but was infact the peter pepper.

Damp kitchen paper in a Tupperware bog. As soon as the root appears I pop them into MPC in newspaper pots (newspaper rolled around an aerosol can) and harden off and plant out by the moment the first true leaf appears [any later and the taproot will be protruding from the bottom of the "pot"] ...