Edible Gardening

Many thanks to all for your ideas. Seadog

100 plants! :ntwrth:My favourite in previous years has been Golden Sunrise. I'm trying Sungold for the first time this year which hasn't ripened yet but I'm hoping they will be better. Also I'm growing Floridty for the first time which won the RHS Wisley tasting trials. I've got three...

Thanks Riggaz, for your kind words :o. I always believe in experimenting. Most of the time my experiments don't work but it is very rewarding when they do . Re our garden: we open it for a local charity each year in the late spring (end of May Bank Holiday) and posted a preview of it a...

I've got my fingers crossed for you :thumb:.

Why is he calling me a lady?????And what's a "gound tyhem"?I'm a teapot ! I'm a tea-pot !Seriously, Bluestar, thanks for trying to help but you're two years too late!

Hi OBG. You say the peppers are rotting from the bottom. Do you mean the end the flowers started from ? I think you are talking about Blossom End Rot. A complicated subject which has been well discussed before. Have a Google under BER or on this forum. If we can be of further help do come back...

Living in the South of Italy,fruit trees are in abundance,but unfortunatley not in my garden. Who ever planned this one thought pine trees were better!! I do not agree. They are messy and poison the ground. Earlier this year we bought some fruit ,plum,lemon,orange,pear,cherry,and one by one they...

Hi Jimmybob, if your chillies are sitting on the windowsill in full sunlight the flowers are frying. That's why they're just dropping off. Move the chillies out of direct sun for a few days, give them a daily spray with water if you can, and I think you'll see the chillies forming. You don't...

Alice is right, apache's dont get too big, i didnt grow any this year, but had lots of smaller chili's last year, very tatsy.

I've used it the last few years also.I have no problems with it, I always wash the fruit before eating if I've sprayed, but never bother if I havn't, so its probably better for me to spray.:DSeriously, it does look nasty and it pongs a bit but I'm still alive.

My early spuds have been very variable, the first few plants were in containers and were very good, lots of nice big tubers. Now we are digging up the two rows I planted in the ground and they are not such a good yield, you do need to water spuds a lot in this dry weather.

Thanks from me also. I have my first raspberry cane this year and it looks more like a shrub than the 'canes' I remember from my granddad's allotment.

Hey, Robert, when were you promoted to the boss of the town :hehe:

Smashing, i'm glad for you. Its a good feeling is it not ?

I can see blossom end rot in the pics, but after looking up both ferline and legend I cant see anything that looks like that. The tom on the right in each pic looks normal to me, but only for something like marmande that grows that strange shape and seems to have double flowers.

Stop feeding the tomatoes, wait until they start flowering before feeding again. Don`t overwater them either. It doesn`t need to be daily just yet. The peppers look fine.:gnthb:

Those beans look just about right to me! Just wash them well under the tap and they'll be fine.We must swallow a ton of dodgy chemicals in what we eat every day - it don't bear thinking about!

A couple of my veggie books state that peas and beans don't do well next to onion/garlic/chives etc, and you should plant them apart. I don't know why though...

I think I'm doing things that people wouldn't normally do and it's my first time growing a pumpkin. Mine is in a pot inside; not ideal but I have no garden! I made a mini mound in the pot and the main stem is "protected" by electrician's tape and is tied to a cane, because it had an accident....

Thanks very much. I'll leave them how they are then.