Edible Gardening

Hi all,I'm planning on putting two staked & wired fences across my allotment to split it into 3 (to help maintian proper crop rotation).I'd like to grow two fruit bushes along them. My question is what could i grow? The fences will be no more than 4ft high but about 10ft long. Would i...

"The French when they look down their noises at our food don't know what they are missing." I know what they could do with lol.

This is my first year of growing parsnips and I followed Daitheplants advice. I drove a stake into he ground about 12 inches deep to creat a shaft and filled with a very, very fine sand and sieved compost mix then sowed the seed on the top of that-and I have gotten some belters out of it. I...

I'd store them, like I'd store apples, in a cool, dry, dark place. Should be for several months.

Thanks for the heads-up on gardening express. I just did a google search because I remember ages ago reading about a mini apple tree that would fit in a pot. The one I was thinking of actually had two varieties on one plant, obviously two grafts onto one main stem. I couldn't find that one...

i allways think swedes taste better after they have had a good frost on them

Thanks clueless, I'll get it done this week if it stops raining that is. We don't tend to suffer from salt issues as we're up the estuary slightly and therefore protected from the worst of coastal weather. Nice views too. Thanks again, roll on blueberry muffins! Sheelagh

I got behind with my station sewing late summer and had no lettuce so I bought a punnet of salad leaves in Aldi, soaked them in water to split them a bit and planted in a trough of peat. They looked sickly for 2 or 3 days and then bounced back to life. As we're not big lettuce eaters its served...

OH had OH :gnthb:

I use butterfly netting from these guys http://www.wmjames.co.uk/fruit-cages.htm to keep the caterpillars away as I don't like using sprays on them

Don't compost the old plants.In the past I have done this then find tom plants springing up where you've used the compost.You can save seeds as detailed above, but with prices as cheap as they are I opt to buy them fresh each year.However, this year a friend of mine bought some Italian...

Covering with enviromesh should work. I've used it for the last four or so years and it keeps out butterflies and aphids/greenfly too. The only problem I encountered this year was on two plants at the ends of the 'tunnels' where I hadn't secured the mesh properly - cabbage white got in, though I...

Thanks for the replies, guys. Will have a look at the weekend.

Many thanks to you for all contributing to my thread.....Fidgetsmum gave me the clue as 'Winter Tree Wash' by Growing Success,this is the only recommended tree wash by RHS as all others are noew outlawed. I have obtained a long reach low pressure lance and the tree will be liberally treated...

Many thanks guys:gnthb:...yummy..roll on breaky!:D

You can have success with supermarket garlic too, i had this year!:thumb: Try the dwarf broad beans in containers!!

We made lots of effort to make the soil acid in the last 2 years for the 2 bushes we already have. Worth the effort this year we had an amazing crop!! Thats why I want more!!!!!!

It seems very late to me for planting out leeks, my seedlings went out in June which I thought was the correct time. I would get them into the ground as soon as possible rather than the greenhouse, they are very hardy but have a lot of catching up to do.

Thank you guys! Now who is impatient... the tomatoes are gone (I'm following tha advice I found in a old thread and cut them to ripen on kitchen windowsill) and now I have a lovely container full of Allium bulbs and 6 lovely cyclamen on top.I love sunny Sundays!

Ah - lucky neither of us had the energy to get the carpet out after flogging away with the digger and rotavator for most of the day. We have been rewarded with the most lovely black, crumbly soil. I am beginning to suspect that the area might have been a veg garden before it became an overgrown...