Edible Gardening

Ok thanks for your help. Sounds like I'm better off working on the wigwam. I think it's slightly more difficult because it's in a pot and I am limited by the width of the base. Will I be ok to plant them out soon (based in the Midlands)? I'm hardening them off during the day.

Awww - you say the nicest things! My family just think I'm a tight-fisted old biddy (which, let's be honest, is true!). I see it as an experiment, they won't have liked being moved .. again, but at least I'll learn something from the experience.

tee hee

These were saved seeds from a bought squash. Looked like a Waltham. I have run out of space so planted them out, as seen. on a wall. Silly me.

We have a huge problem with pigeons eating ours and like you they don't bother with the lettuces we have to cover all brassicas with wire netting on our allotment, never got a shotgun when ya need one, lol.

You're right there pete, it was the Kentish Weald that they were on about, think it was hop fields that had the ash from London fires added.

me too, i guess u are an experienced exhibitor?

Stem produces the potatoess Potatoes that grow on the surface turn green, so increasing the soil depth helpsas has been said.Earth up and cover the leaves is frost is forecast, as that will kill the tops of the plant and set it backI earth up until I can't get any more soil banked up. For...

Good mix of both types were flowering so it must have been the conditions that set them off even though I thought I'd kept them pretty moist! We did have a massive downour after several weeks of no rain so I think it was that that sparked it off.Have to say they're very tasty though

not flowered yet, just lots of lush green leaves ( if thats the correct term )

Having been a regular visitor to one near Shepton Mallet I was thrilled to find one in Bridport. Only small trees so far but the notice said, turn up at 10am on the second sunday of each month to help out with weeding, digging etc. Will go along this sunday, gotta be a good chance to network...

There are so many wild carrots in some parts of the UK that you could "undo" a few thousand years of selective breeding in a season & end up with a tiny thin root again. The wild parsnip has a similar, not worth bothering about root, but someone did manage to breed a decent size root from them...

Can't see much wrong with storing fruit/veg and it's nothing new. I'm eating last years carrots, stored in a bucket of damp sand and my onions are on a shelf in the shed, picked and dried last September. My Dad grew potatoes commercially and we used to make a big clamp, maybe 100 tons that would...

Steves got the right idea, pot em up & put em outside the house for 50p I got loads of rogue ones coming up. They survive the human digestive tract and so are a common weed in sewage processing plants, along with Marijuanna, although I don't know why people eat those seeds :DOH:Must be Sheals...

Crushed and dried garlic and onion keeps cats off my flowerbeds nicely, and I save eggshells to crumble roughly and sprinkle around the allotment. Slugs and snails can't get across them but you do need to get through quite a lot of eggs.

Hehehe - that's the blighter!

Slug pellets are the only thing I find that works. The trouble with compost heaps is that there will be loads of slugs there so it will be difficult to protect it. I agree with Madahlia it's too early for pumpkins to be out on their own on a night, they just sit in the ground all day and sulk,...

Yes, if you put a deep barrier between the two. Raspberries spread like you wouldn't believe!

I lost mine to whitefly last year, trying again this year in our Polytunnel instead of the greenhouse. Steve...

It's frost bite!