Edible Gardening

Welcome to the forum SAplin. Garlic is quite hardy and should be fine overwinter. I grow mine in Perthshire no problem. Do not cut it back. Your garlic will not flower until about June next year. When you see the stalks (garlic scapes) coming up then cut them off and eat them. They are mildly...

With raspberries while 1 years wood is fruiting ,next years is growing, so next years stems are there now, then in spring the leaves and flowers appear, then the fruit from the flowers. So really you always have raspberry canes there,

Dan. You could try the T&M site. They give the fruiting times for different varieties, or just Google "Blueberries"

Thanks for that and all your help, Geoff.Sticks do tend to stick up, though some do stick down and others stick out - perhaps that why they're called sticks! I noticed, on my allotment, on the other hand, all holes tend to stick down - if ever I see a hole sticking up, I'll let you...

Thanks will follow ur advice

I reckon I'd just dig it up now. Fill a good sized container with ericaceous compost and a couple of good trowels full of well rotted manure or chicken poo pellets, pop the bush in the middle, give it a really good watering, and put it somewhere where the wind won't get it. They are quite tough...

Hi Snowdrop! My wife uses poppy seeds in her baking and cooking. Now I know that growing the opium poppy is the right one to grow and isn't illegal to do so (T & M sell the seeds), I shall be growing them myself in future. There's a man on my allotment whose Vietnamese wife is always growng them...

If you want to sow onions indoors get some for spring sowing and sow them just after Christmas. You have missed the boat by a long way for autumn sown varieties. You can get some spring sown varieties that mature not much later than the autumn ones. I tend to sow all my spring sown onions...

Has anyone heard of Nematodes for wireworm? I don't know how successful they would be or if they even exist. Has anyone tried them for slugs for example? Do they work? I all my potato growing attemps have been ruined by wire worms and I'm getting sick of it. I reckon I must have a massive...

Summer was a bit late to be planting and I don't think you did it any favours by giving it a cut so late in the growing season. Blackcurrants are normally very easy to grow. If you take a cutting and shove it in the ground there's a very good chance of it rooting. In your case I'd leave it...

Yeah, they had a good shock because of cold weather and trying to reproduce again. They are actually perennials, so are peppers.

I suspect that we are very close to being able to lift things like Dahlias. Just this morning I looked at my neighbours beautiful Acer tree and noticed that over the last two days it has lost most of its leaves. That tells me that plants are packing up for the season and ready to go...

I have picked all mine and have them in the airing cupboard in a paper bag, I wanted to clear the greenhouse so i can get the staging into the new one.

Hi QuaedorTraditional advice was to add manure one year and then lime the next year, never both in the same year. I think they counteract each other if applied together and not in a good way.So if you're adding stable manure in a few weeks time, I wouldn't recommend adding either...

In the Meditteranean countrie you see squash/pumpkins on roof tops in the sun drying. I was told by a friend that they are better for diabetics after they have been kept, as this allows some of the natural sugars to break down

Hi Manteur, I originally bought some of the small stem tubers from Chilterns.If your interested I could sent you a few, but you'll need to keep them through the winter and plant next spring.PM me.

I've got an apricot tree that fruits very well. The fruits are ready early June (or thereabouts depending on the year). I find the only snag to this very productive fruit is that a full trees-worth comes ready all at once, and has to be dealt with there and then or they drop and/or rot. Could it...

The professionals spray Bramleys with some sort of lime solution when it is in leaf in order to counteract the bitter pit. It is a pain in the butt. It developed on a large tree of Spartan I used to have. It used to produce loads of top quality fruit and then bitter pit set in which affected...

Some people think that cucumbers and tomatoes dont do well in the same greenhouse. Tomatoes like it warm and a dryish atmosphere - keeps some of the fungal diseases at bay. cucumbers like it cooler and a moister atmosphere. i have to admit that often I have had years when the tomatoes have been...

Blight is a fungal disease. It thrives in warm damp weather