Edible Gardening

Brilliant news, and great to hear this is happening in the US, which as I understand it, generally serve up far worse food to their schools than we do....

Champion! Thanks John - I'll look out for those. As you will appreciate, I need them to be as easy as possible, as I'm a first-timer

Planting ours through the black weed supressant membrane seems to help a lot. The membrane helps get the soil warmer.

That was my OH's first comment......"I'm not eating them - they're BLUE!!!! "

Good idea to visit local PYO (or supermarket if they label the fruit with the specific variety .... which seems improbable though) to taste-test before investing in varieties for home-grown

We had our first couple of runners lightly cooked in some fried rice the other day. The flavour was so much more intense than anything shop bought, and absolutely lovely. I have two more big pods in the fridge, and several more smaller ones still growing outside. I also have some onions ready...

Not a season goes by when I don't grow Courgettes that look just like that :(

Hi Blacksmith, I probably need to clarify my cooking terms. As I'm an ex chef, blanching to me means cooking until the "Al Dente" stage, this simply means cooked, but "firm to the tooth"..offering some resistance when it is bitten. In the case of my frozen chips (approx 10-12mm thick) or...

So do as Dave W says, water the bag. If the tray fills up with water then stop. Also feel the compost in the rings, does it feel dry? If so I'd pour a couple of pints into the ring. As a guide, growbags need watering at least once a day in this current hot weather spell. Each plant needs...

Hi, my swedes have been growing well all year and have now started to rot in the centres. They give off a pungent smell and leak a nasty slime at the base of a leaf stem, some leaves drop off and smell as well. They have been under attack from catterpillars which have stripped a lot of leaf...

Hi I woudnt worry, its the poor summer we have had plus my tomato's have only gone red in the past two weeks, and chillies/peppers always follow at least two weeks later. Are you growing in a greenhouse ?? Spruce

I think that's a job for the bumblebees. Our weather has cheered up a bit lately so the bees are out in force making up for lost time, but I understand from the news that other parts of the country are still getting wet. Could that be the problem?

Could it be Didymella lycopersici ??

Dunno. But for the Kiwi greenhouse crop in Guernsey they froze pollen from one year to the next (in case the flowering of the, separate variety, males did not coincide with the females, and then used a sort of reverse-vacuum-cleaner to "apply" it! So I think its worth a punt. But I prefer...

Just noted the hops are forming from about the 8 th of august . When they form is there anything I can do with them ? Not beer making ! But I heard they are aromatic

As I've said Hex, all I have are 3 in each of two window boxes and a patio pot with 3 in. Just enough for my OH and me, Jenny

I love blueberries I have two in pots with eracaceous compost as mention, I didn't fleece the blue crop last winter, that's the one that has gorgeous autumn colours before dropping all its leaves. But the other one I have is semi evergreen and I did fleece that one, I think though it is...

Like this..? Lifted the first of our King Eddies today also, but had to stop early due to heavy rain. Back out there tomorrow for a few more. I was very surprised at just how little damage we had on ours, they look incredibly clean...given that out Kestrel was a magnet for just about every...

The original plant would produce less and less fruit as it ages. The new off shoots should be planted up as Miraflores says to eventually replace the old plant.