Edible Gardening

Can always snip the excess off ... no more fiddly than pricking out I expect?

I bought a mushroom kit today, the idea behind this is if it goes well then I'll try the 'exotic' mushroom varieties. There's 2 bags in the kit - one is a base layer of some type of compost and the other is a top layer of innoculated spores. I'm wondering about a thin layer of worm-poop...

They need to be proper sets as saved onions will go to seeds. Checked on my autumn planted sets in the polytunnel yesterday and mice had bitten though every single shoot at ground level.

Do any members have experience of growing Cobnuts / Filberts in the northern part of England as a fruiting crop not just as a native hedge? Information on suitable / sucessful varieties would be appreciated. a-a

Thanks, Scrungee Good tip about leaving the stems as a marker until new growth appears Unfortunately, I didn't save any seed (bad Mum! ) Haven't learned the art of seed saving yet.

Hi Dale yes 99 pence bargain tes only 4 in a packet but that will do me I have other stuuf to put in their place ! I will grow two inside see how they get on , two outside if I have 100% germination looks like no one has grown before ? Spruce

Be easier to replace the door, surely?

Only having one bean plant last year I didn't actually get to eat any Thought i'd be better off just increasing the seed and waiting for a better year.

I don't have a blog - perhaps it was Kristen's?

Nice one Kaz

I'd say if the school says they want you to be CRB checked, then I'd tell them fine, as long as they pay for it. Or, at the very least, I'd want to see a solid contract promising employment to a certain minimum value subject to a good CRB check result. Otherwise you could end up paying the fee...

i am loving the interest that this thread has gotten and i for one have learnt so much from it ... or should i say i have been made to think more about the how why and whats of it all Nature is truly amazing and i will def be trying to grow from these seeds thank you all for so much info and the...

Just in case somebody was thinking of buying from T&M, it's free P&P until midnight Sunday and the 'triple up' of clubcard points is still on http://www.tesco.com/clubcard/deals/search.aspx?Ntt=thompson and morgan&VSI=17&Ntk=primary&Nty=1&Ntx=mode+matchall&Nr=NOT(P_Product_TypeID:5) But I...

Yes I agree, from T&M's point of view all they have spent is £168 and they got themselves on the BBC and on here, that is a very cheap way of advertising.

Julie, if you don't want them, but don't want to take part in the seed swap, I'm sure lots of people might be grateful if you offered them up for P&P. I never join in the seed swap, just because I'm so forgetful the parcel would stop at me and stay for ages, and then everybody would be...

Plenty of kale and parsnips but that's about it. Had a stir fry the other day and my beloved said 'Where did that green stuff come from?' I asked if she'd seen the large amount of green things in the veg plot

Yes, yes & yes.

Thanks for all your comments folks I reckon it's Tesco then. At £1.00/kilo they are a far more economical buy than Marshalls @ £3.60/kilo and Suttons @ £4.50/kilo.

ok i'll try that next time

Chillis, truly some ingredient I do need to explore more.