Edible Gardening

Sorry to hear that. My Marshall's Gro-Sack and very-large-pot (guessing, 30" dia.) have all been good, yield just fine, good flavour. I grew Charlotte, Foremost and Maris Peer. I put 4" of manure in the bottom, then tubers, then 4" of multipurpose compost, then earthed up with soil. (The whole...

Has bean, you have to keep ventilating your greenhouse when its very sunny - otherwise close them as much as you dare. Its a balancing act as the humidity gets too high if you keep the vents closed all the time which encourages grey mould. Are you going to spray them with Dithane/Bordeaux...

:thku: Thanks guys, I'll do just that!

Whats the brown round the stalk? A few of them have it.

My bet would be that they rot or slugs/insects find their way in.If you decide to pick now I should think they will taste OK.There is still time for more to grow and take over, so if you pick these now others will take over - pumpkins can only support two or three fruit per plant anyway

Its sounds more like snake oil to me, but I'm willing to be proved wrong.

You need to hand pollinate them in this cold wet weather.

If they are indoor it might just be that they tend to produce a first flush, and then stall, and then resume for the rest of the season. Advice is to remove the first half-dozen, or so, baby fruits to prevent getting the "stall" stage. (I think the plant thinks "I've reproduced" and gives up,...

"lurking in the foilage"They've grown since you took the photo, I can see them from here :hehe:

I reckon I've lost more seeds due to over cooking than anything else!

Do you have a sowing plan, or anything similar, [that you could share] Lovage?

JohnThanks for your views. My photo doesn't show it but the nibbling extends down into the core of the plant so I don't think it was done by birds. They tend to shred everything visible; at least, the pigeons round here do!Slugs are certainly a possibility and come to think of it,...

Taste is what its all about flinty. Nice to see a success story robert

By the way, if you just want your own apples, you can strike cuttings from named varieties and grow them on their own roots. The main reason for rootstocks is to control the size of the tree.

Here is a tip to get your apple trees cropping evenly every year. As they finish flowering next year, pinch off the flowers on every other spur. Do it every year and you will get steady crops every year. By the way, you will also get bigger apples so you will not lose much interms of crop weight/

Brilliant and really helpful answers thank you. I've grown a few veggies before - runner beans, the odd potato and carrot (very odd since neither was too keen on the ultra stony ground we had previously!), cucumbers and tomatoes - OK, OK, I know tomatoes are a fruit, but you get my point. ...

So is jerusalem artichoke, and a darn site less useful as well.

I wasn't going to let on, but mine are that size too. The "plant out in May/June" hasn't quite happened yet!

Thanks Kristen I just could not remember these details I am now subscribed:gnthb: Seems to be clear in my area at the moment robert

Thanks for that.