Edible Gardening

I have an el-cheapo weather station hooked up to Wunderground so I can worry about the weather in my garden, specifically, all the time I'm away!!

That's great Sigord, thank you, I never thought to dry ordinary garden mint this way. I do make fresh mint sauce sometimes. I dry my peppermint in the microwave as that makes great tea and keeps its fragrance and colour. I lay individual leaves out onto kitchen paper on the mw turn table and...

Thanks clueless1 - I had spinache with the rhubarb last couple of years in same bed, they seemed to like each other but spinache gone to see this year so am renewing the bed and planting spinache in another bed. Hi shiney thanks to you also, I had raspberries a few years agon and decided...

12) Garlic plants don't indulge in sex.

I harvested my spuds a bit early this year as at least one plant got blackleg disease so I harvested early to avoid losing the lot. Since then, in a different patch of ground, I've started off some more. They are so far doing very well, so maybe all is not lost. This is the first time I've...

Homebase manure is great but pricey, I prefer to get "free" stuff straight from the stable and give it a few months to rot down.

Thanks for the advice. Thinking about it maybe there is another possible explanation...where the ends are white and not hollow, I think that it just where a flower has fallen off. And where there stem is hollow, that might have been where the slugs got hold of the plant before I started...

If you really really hurry, you still have time to get another crop of spuds on the go, but of course not in the same spot as you've just dug spuds from.

Sal, Doh, I was hoping it would be the air potatoes/Dioscorea. I will pot up, and if it grows, great, if not, too bad. I had to come up with an excuse at work why I needed to go back to that client. Well I popped in there, but I really wanted to go to the shop next door

Pepinex are full size cucs and should make up to 12" to 14" when mature. You should be able to judge when they are ready as they'll be quite firm and smooth. As has already been said keep the plant moist (but not wet or you risk basal stem rot) and feed regularly. If you pick the mature fruit as...

Likewise the potatoes grown from seed may have too much Solanine in them. You don't want to be finding out the hard way. Bottom fallen out of your world? Feel the world fall out of your bottom with Solanine.

Well blight is normally black, but it probably has the same effect. The plant dies if untreated and seriously affects the crop.

Nonetheless, I'm laying down a challenge for myself. Going to try and grow the biggest (weight) parsnip and carrot I've ever achieved using my trusted varieties, namely Gladiator (parsnip) and Autumn King2 (carrot). I've managed to get my hands on some 8" diameter industrial plastic pipe and...

Nice, and enjoy your risotto

I pulled 60ish off 3 plants green a few weeks ago got double the number of chillis on there now....

No need to repeat yourself Ziggy, I think he heard you first time.... apologies Liamish,

Its all good practice for next season, just sow a few of each variety around february time indoors and they`ll be big enough to take loads of cuttings when everyone else is busy sowing seeds. Cuttings grow a lot quicker than seeds and they have identical traits to the parent plant so choose the...

I feel it may be as i dreaded a soil/infection/like fusarium wilt I will have to (fumigste/disenfect/and re-soil) I just started to think I might get achanceto 'sit in the sun' this weekend As-if that were a possibility being a granddad/fostercarer/and everything to all men kind of guy.

Cheers Shiney I will follow that advice

Thanks John. They're not doing bad, although there is some leaf damage due to this 'orrible weather. I'll take some pictures at the weekend.