Edible Gardening

thanks for all help willleave with using what other people give me for this year. was given nearly 2kg in weight and have successfully made rhubarb jam and it has gone down well, so fee will be making this in the future.

Ziggy - you are a hoot!

Hello,Has anyone moved a goosgog before? We are going to sort out the garden to make way for chickens and it's in the wrong place. Could I plant it against a fence and just prune it on the fence-side, or does it need to bush all over? Thanks, Liz

Dig it up before the first frost, train it up the bannister & keep picking till you put it back out in the spring, might need some grow blubs & a machette :lollol:

Glad to hear that Tuppence. My first welsh beans will be ready tommorow. Sister has sneakily replaced half of them with runners, she thought I wouldn't spot the different flowers.

Thank you Loopy Lou

P'raps he only had 5 to start with!

I used to have a mini greenhouse and I used a capilary type propogater in it, and everything I sowed germinated in it. I thought a glass greenhouse would be better. too good perhaps Ay. Liz

I know, the last time I grew them was 35 years ago *LOL*This time I have the chance of studying them and the opportunity of learning a lot more about them !Tim

Don't know a blind thing about strawbrary weevils

You suggest, as I suspected, removal. I don't see the need for them either so, thank you for that.

looks like its not really spread all that much and some spiders have moved in to clean up a great deal of them, for the mo it looks like theyre under control so i'll post again if it all goes wrong, thanks a lot!yaco

Strawberries are almost finished, but I managed to pick a small bowl full this morning..

Or a turnip ?

you are very welcome ! let me know what you think of it loopy

I ate mine in a risotto, they were delicious!

In a village a few miles from here they have already harvested the wheat in one field. It was the very short variety. I don't know whether that variety is bred short to just withstand the heavy downpours (that we haven't had) or whether it ripens earlier.

Oh, and japanese onions from seed in mid august

And spread at least three foot! I need to find somewhere for another, preferably near a path so I can smell it constantly. Oh I know, front garden!

By removing the lower branches in particular, it will airate the plants helping to prevent disease and providing more nutrients for the fruit instead of leaf growth.