Edible Gardening

Not dumb questions at all :thumb:Don't bother wasting your time pulling off potato flowers Susanna - it hardly makes any difference at all. If you only have a few plants then maybe remove any fruit once the flowers set.Not every potato plant flowers, it varies from year to year and...

ziggy, I hope my ladybirds learn from yours :gnthb: We don't have to bother about freezing, salting, bottling etc. We sell all our spare produce for our charity. We have enough customers to sell more than £100 per week if I had the produce.

It depends what variety but the longer you leave them the bigger the tubers will get - I'd say you could leave them for another couple of weeks yet to maximise growth.

My cherry tomato plants are still flowering & only have fruit on the bottom trusses, whereas my large plants have finished flowering & have huge green fruits waiting to ripen, I thought it was still pretty early for all the flowers to have formed into fruit?

Judging from my strawberry plants, which dry, like, twice a week, I assume that they need a lot of water.

Thanks everyone Logi

It will be worth the wait folks. The few Gardener's Delight I've picked off my outddoor plants are packed with flavour compared to my greenhouse plants.

I feed mine with blood, fish and bone in Spring, but don't bother with the tap water malarkey and it doesn't seem to do them any harm. They've finished now and are putting on new growth.

Many thanx I'll do that. John

You're spared from that Axie-Alie. It only works for male urine And probably only the old boys :flag:

We got clumps all over the place many of which are self seeded. Our biggest clumps are at least 5 years old.

As Alice suggests most probably BER. Though I wouldn't rule out Pete's suggestion regarding scorch since I can see water on the GH windows and if you get splashes on the fruit followed by hot sun the water drops on the fruit act like a magnifying glass.Peppers seem to require a different...

Been there ,done it ,and bought the tee shirt :( no big deal ) music .

Hi Magrat. If they're in full sun then I think the flowers are just frying. As you say, put them in the shade for a few days and I think you'll get fruit set. They're pretty good at pollinating themselves but give them a wee shake to help them. Let's know how you get on.

Curious, Ask your seedsman what type of tomato it is (early or late). They should know.

Thanks everyone for the replies, I will pass the thread on to my friend and let him decide what action to take to prevent this happening. Maybe I will try the seed option rather than using sets next year & see how they do.... Cheers Dave.

Maybe it's lack of pollination that are rotting a few of my small fruits then, I thought it was close proximity to the ground, previous years I had more courgettes than I knew what to do with when I was growing the green varieties, but this year I'm growing a yellow one called 'taxi' there is...

Never thought about ebay thanks Daisees, Shows how much I have to learn coming from a concrete jungle

:gnthb: You're on Sven, we shall have to have a meet up, but I think I might be a bit late for the first pepper..!! :gnthb: You are a real star.. :gnthb: I am out in October now & we can talk loads of plant stuff then.. We must arrange a meet up..!! :wink:

:thumb: She has it right Dai... All this food produced by thousands of Americans goes to the food & soup kitchens they have all over the USA.. A very worthy project & dear to me also.. :thumb: :wink: