Edible Gardening

Well I've been eating lettuce now for about a week, and given a couple away, so I too have planted more out in trays they've germinated so I will be planting them out this week. TBH I don't know why we bother withe lettuce, as apparently their is no particular goodness in them, almost all water...

Had our first real harvest of peas today and I got to wondering what restricts the amount of peas in a pod. So, a little challenge for you pea growers. How many peas in your pod? I had two tens this morning and then came up with eleven. No prizes, just the kudos of knowing your pod has more peas...

Thanks to all above who gave such useful information. I will copy all and email to my daughter poste haste.

If it is just Vegetable Crop Planning that you need then you may be interested in my crop planning spreadsheet. Details in this thread:

Thanks Claire.I googled soda water mildew and found this:It seems to be saying it is more of a preventative than a cure, but I'll give it a try and see what happens.

Thanks for the heads up. I will check out the greenback, but I would just say that the colour balance in the photo is not really honest, especially since the camera decided to activate fill-out flash.

i have the same issue on my cherry tom plants,did some research and came up with calcium deficiency cured by sprinkling crushed egg shell round the stem base and watering to get the calcium to the plant. i'm using the aldi growbags and container compost with no issues.never heard of the epsoms...

Hi Micky. When the seedlings reach the 'crook' stage you can either pot hem up individually or put them in trays, maybe 28 to a tray. Then basically just look after them until around the start of April (when they should look like they're taking off) and plant them out. As for size, the biggest...

Pam: Thanks for that. We decided to plant one outside and keep the others in 'Greenhouse conditions', we don't actually have a Greenhouse as such but somewhere where the temperature and light can be controlled. Just have to wait and see I suspect.

Thank you for all your ideas. I will be putting the used dvd's to good use.Thank you again!!:gnthb:

Wow! Its a monster

Ditto

There's nowt like it - yummmmm!

There is a case to remove the lower leaves later in the season.When you finally 'stop' your moneymaker plant ('stop' it by nipping out the growing tip when it has between 4 trusses outdoors, 6 in a greenhouse), the plant stops actively growing, then you can remove the lower leaves. But this...

Freddy you have done well with your parsnips look wonderful and so much growth too. I must admit ours aren't much to shout about in fact it's a case of spot them on our plot, I sowed them a little too sparse and far apart but then again we aren't too keen on them really so that's lucky for...

Sarah, your tomatoes look fine. The leaves have been battered by rain then scorched by the sun. That's how it looks to me. You are not going to eat the leaves, and it won't affect the tomato production, so try not to worry. All will be fine.

Thank you John. I will let you know how it goes!!

"They are all over the house too"In that case don't bother with the canes next year :hehe:

You could use a tower pot for StrawberriesI've got one that came from Ken MuirThey also sell strawberry plants which have been "treated" to get them to fruit the first year. But if you buy some now they will fruit next year anyway, so no point getting "treated" ones at this time I would...

I'm no expert either, they don't look like any tomato seedlings I've ever grown. I've never seen hairy leaves like that nor the true leaves looking like seed leaves. But the stem is tomato like and I did stumble across these when googling, which look similar:The above are "Striped German"...