Edible Gardening

If you really are worried about preserving them then yes, dust them with sulpher powder - it may help.

Definitely the growing conditions. If they don't get enough / constant supply of water (ie they go dry at times) then they'll go mushy on cooking.

Invasive? I'll say. I planted one about 3 years ago, only too late was I advised that they 'take over' so, after one flowering, I carefully removed them and had a completely physalis-free garden - this year, somehow, they've popped up again .... 40' from where the original was planted

Hello. This is my first post on this forum so be gentle lol :WINK1: I noticed you said you had damage to your tomato plants. I have been growing tomatos for a long time and over the past 2 years I have been experiencing treibble trouble with the tomato moth catapillar. At first I thought it...

We`ve been cropping them here for the last 4 to 5 weeks.

I have just looked down in the centre leaves and guess what I have one heart the size of a golf ball. Hopefully it will grove a bit and its a good omen for the others. Patience is a virtue so they say. Thanks Jean

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Glad yours is under control now Jack.The sulphur didn't work for me, so I've sprayed again with Bordeaux Mixture.

When they are completely yellow and have a spongey feel to them, if they are hard they will be slightly sour to eat. Try one when you think they are ripe, you will learn to judge as time goes on.

salsa for pizzas or pasta dishes,tuna tomato and black olives salad, tomato and mozzarella sandwiches, halved and filled with philadelphia cheese or other stuffing, or store in jars or in the freezer.

Hi Kandy, I've just found the Id thread about the millet. Go to Identification Area and it's........Two for Two by HBK on 14th August.

Yes, my other pear tree (not shown) is a conference. I can't remember which one that is and the ticket has blown off.

I normally grow Music (obtained from the Really Garlicy Co - available from September), Cristo, Germidour, Thermidrome (garden centres), Vigor (spring planting garlic from local gardening store) and Elephant Garlic ('Taylors' from garden centre), and most of them are re-planted saved cloves as I...

If, when you hold the apple and it comes away easily in your hand then it is ripe. Anything else and they are not ready.

ok thanks guys, shame the ID was to late to save most of my crop, but I've sprayed whats left with 100ml of full fat milk with half a level teaspoon of bicarb and made it up to one litre.Plant Potty.

How long should you dry them for? Mine are hanging in my carport...

I polinate the cucurbits by hand & give the sweetcorn a shake. oooohhhh Matron Spruce

Fidgetsmum, I used to grow at least half a dozen varieties but now only grow Polestar. They are a fairly heavy cropping variety, reasonably early flowering, able to withstand hot or wet conditions and all the punters say they love the flavour.

I am planting Charlotte potatoes for a client tomorrow, hopefully for a Xmas crop. They will be planted 1 per 10" pot, in well rotted manure. I will grow them outside until the weather starts to turn cold, then they will go in the greenhouse.

Hi It sound if you have pear scab , it probably effected the blossom so thats how early it starts and got into the fruit at the start of the spring (fungal disease) lives on the old leaves and the actual stems of the plant as you know already In the autumn clear away all the leaves around...