Edible Gardening

Awsome.....i've been picking beans for a couple days now, nothing like fresh, right out of the garden!

I've heard that it is poor pollination that causes the fruit to be disformed. There are a few of my strawberries in pots that are slightly deformed. They still taste sweet and juicy. The other thing i've noticed about mines is that the outside skin splits on them. Can anyone advise on this?

Hi WOO. I didn't know you grew a bit of veg? King Edwards are main crop, so normally harvested a bit later on. But, what the heck! You want them, you have them Edit : There's something deeply satisfying about digging up fresh potatoes

Hiya Mark I don't know what others think, but to me they look ready. Cheers...Freddy

Yes, nip the tops off and you'll get more growing shoots coming from lower down. With the plants that are just stalks - leave them there and they are likely to grow more shoots later on. If you have any spare seeds there is still time to plant them for a late crop if you don't get early...

Cheeers

Thank you Pete - everything I wanted/needed to know in a nutshell. Going on what's there at the moment, if all the flowers were to develop into fruit, I'd have - oh! about ... 7!! (It's a start! )

No - I stand 'em on an old 3' 6" high fold-up garden table - by the time the slugs have smelled the lettuce, made their way to the table, crawled up the 'x' shaped legs, worked their way across the underside of the table-top, hauled themselves over the edge, crossed the table, negotiated the...

As it's way too early for elephant garlic even to be harvested now, let alone be prepared for planting, I suspect the clove(s) may have come from another part of the World or has been kept in prolonged, controlled storage. Perhaps you could ask the seller just how they they Elephant Garlic...

The first lot of flowers don't always get pollinated. It won't be too long before they set and then the plants will start producing in abundance. This weather, at the moment, is what they really like - warm and wet. They are not keen on hot and dry.

Not Roger the Gorilla!!!! He was Gerald the Gorilla's sex mad brother.

...are struggling a bit. We've just started picking our Raspberries and its shaping up to be our best year yet for them, they're big, full of flavour and there's lots of them - yummy However our Strawberries that were fantastic last year are struggling, I've a feeling its just too damp,...

No I didn't, I also put in the Blight thread that Steve r posted. Can't be anything else.

I agree, nothing wrong with those, although a bit small. I seem to recall reading somewhere that one should only plant the outer(larger) cloves. This apparently produces larger bulbs Cheers...Freddy

What rootstock are these dwarf trees supposed to be grafted onto?

No problem, we all do it.Yup, that'll do it. Not too bad now that the river is back where the river should be, Cockermouth has had some minor flooding with a few homes getting wet again. Not very nice really when most people are just getting back to normal after the serious 2009...

:patpat: indeed! You'll need to cross your fingers that they have enough "summer" growing time to make some cobs though, but nothing tastes so significantly better than the Supermarkets than home grown corn (nearly spelt that wrongly!!)

MrJ - for what it's worth, stick 'mushroom spores and asthma' into Google where there are 125,000 'results' for this type of question from UK pages alone! I've had a go at growing mushrooms in the past and I'm much too lazy to bother with all that 'faffing' about keeping newspaper damp, making...

It must have es-scaped from the veg plot

any one else got any ideas or advice for me