Edible Gardening

Moopants, when did you plant the cloves? Also, if there is no flower head forming, then the plants HAVEN`T bolted.

That's what I have always done - except that I don't even wash them. There's no need for that if you're going to remove the skins anyway. When you want to use them you take them straight from the freezer and drop them into a bowl of hot water. Lift them out after a minute and you can quite...

Thanks, Aesculus, I do like radish I must confess lol, most were eaten whole, tho I've started thin slicing them in the kenwood when I'm making coleslaw, they are a bit more colour, the baby thinnings go in whole, tho I'm not sure the tyre was the answer to my radish production, it produced a...

So everyone will tell you, growing Potatoes breaks up the ground but I think its the act of growing Potatoes that breaks up the ground...not the Potatoes themselves, consider this... You dig the ground over to get the seed Potatoes in the ground in the first place, you earth up a couple of...

Pulled some .. used first today, should the red appear throughout the onion ... only outer layer had red ?

My cucumbers are exactly the same Rob. By process of elimination I've put it down to warm days and chilly nights. They don't like the cold. Apart from that mine are doing okay and have plenty of cucumbers growing.

I've just put around a kilo of chopped scapes into my freezer, and have been eating them for almost 2 weeks now, which seemed rather late to me as I was cutting them around the end of May last year although this thread was started towards the end of July last year.They've always been used...

delicious looking crop victoriaenjoy them!loopy

Why not make your area at the bottom of the garden into raised beds, that way you get a deeper plot, and (in theory) more chance of better yields? Half sink the sleepers in the ground of whatever, and you can top it up with either growbags, compost, manure or whatever, and dig it in.

Thanks Scrungee, but my shed does not have any power... Steve...

Aye, use slug traps. Nematodes may be worth a look too, though they may work out expensive.

thats intersting, to use the bolted onions first as I didn't realise that they didn't store well. I learn something new everyday.

when the leaves flop over with them both. My onions are ready now, they are japanese so i planted them in Oct/Nov last year. So what I should do is dig them up carefully and leave them on top of the soil for the skins to form and dry for about two weeks then store them in net bags in the garage....

They will come along mick, just need some patience. Usually it's the other way round as pete and dai say.

I as John ,have noticed before that leaves sometimes curl when they get that first feed . Maybe coincedence ?? Dave

Leave them alone and they'll be fine. I've grown femspot several times. The plant will shed (they'll yellow and die) any embryonic cucs it can't support and the others will develop in due course. If you feed and water you probably end up with more cucs than you can use. I nip out side shoots...

Melons need pollinating so its best to do it with a small brush around mid day.:WINK1:

They have been in the ground since Oct / Nov

No, it's not, tho' I think spuds might have to wait till august, ready for Christmas! Lots of salad veg, turnips, orak, look at this website. Great Vegetable Seeds from The Real Seed CatalogueThere's lots of info about what to sow when. Sorry, the site inspires me.Also, just found...

I will certainly need some help! But not for a while - Thanks anyway.