Edible Gardening

Transplanting will set them even further back, so I'd reduce to 2 best plants per pot and wait until there was a much bigger true leaf before planting out, as what's there at the moment is so tiny that a slug could very easily finish the plants off for good. Then pinch the weakest plant out...

If the plants are kept warm they can continue to fruit all through the winter. Up until a couple of years ago I used to bring the best three plants into the house once the frosts arrived and they would give fruit until March - when I then pruned them back so that they had a rest before getting...

Optimal time for chilli pollen is between 12pm and 3pm. You can shake the plant gently, use a little flick of the flowers, use a paintbrush or cotton bud, or of course, let nature take its own course..

Yes, you could do that. Tomato Fertiliser companies wnat you to use the maximum possible - that equates to their profits! But ... your tomato fertilizer N-P-K should have a ratio (between the figures) of something like 1-1-2 - so perhaps an NPK of 7-7-14 or something like that. If that's the...

Not seen this thread before, very impressive I love the veg plot. Well done :patpat:. Rusty

It's been hundreds of years since astonomers discovered it's the other way round, although Galileo did get in a bit a trouble when he suggested it.

if the Courgette "grew" and then "died" then its rotted. If it never grew, and was just the little "mini-example Courgette" and then died then its as Tony says and was never fertilised (which could be the case if the Bees can't easily get to the plant)

You dont actually need the potato, once its shooted you can cut off the rooted stems and grow them on. I've done this, but I think we need a much longer summer and a much warmer one to make it worthwhile. Plus I cant stand sweet potato, so wasn't that bothered

I know it's off topic but you've just got to look up some of the Dick Emery clips off the internettyweb...an absolute scream.... Sorry back to tatties

I did, And thank you Moyra, I used to do a lot of posting and photos and swopping seeds before taking on a new husband....Always enjoyed this site so many knowledgeable people so willing to help but then gardeners are like that. Just very nice people.

I can so picture that

Well I am just updating my threads...things going ok...one of my runner beans is now making good progress up the canes...I had to start the other two canes off again as the cold/wind/slugs got 'em!! I also had a 'spare' runner bean and so am attempting to get it to gtow up the drainpipe in the...

Blimey! What are you feeding them with?

JWK, the green eyed monster is out here. Well done!

Ptarmigan if you have a drive round your local scaffold companys tell them what your after ie old scaffold boards to make raised beds they are happy to sell you them thats all I did & found one place that had new boards that had'nt passed the stress tests they sold me 12 at £6 each (new boards)...

Not a good idea to grow beans in the greenhouse, the flowers need to be pollinated. So you need bees.

Spot on. However, there are F1-all-female outdoor ones, and indoor ones (based on the outdoor ones) where you don't have to take the flowers off ... minefield! but thankfully those types are rare. That's what they do when chilly (although they don't always recover - the old saying...

I grow them for an early crop, and again (sown around 1st August) for a late Autumn crop. I did trying growing climbing French - that was a disaster of foliage and no beans - they loved the conditions in my greenhouse in Spring! Dunno about mid-Summer though, might be too hot

Carrots are a bit slow growing, I wouldn't call them speedy veg, but well worth the wait.

No scringee mine look just like yours