Edible Gardening

Planting different varieties together is a sure fire way of getting a colourful display.My mother always plants on the basis of what colour flowers they produce !!Scarlet emperor is my choice this year, and i will also be planting Blue Lake(climbing french bean) and Borlotti beans, together...

Start of April will be fine. First earlies take 9 or 10 weeks to crop, maincrop about 12-14 weeks.Dont plant them too early. If you really cant wait, plant some in a growbag in a frost free greenhouse mid march .

All sorts of possibilities. I suppose it would depend on how big your pot/tub is but you got me thinking maybe some in the greenhouse and moved out later hmmm. I have grown some in tubs outside but much later and quite good results.

Enjoy.:gnthb:

Hi there, I saw your leeks and it makes me want to make some soup :hehe::gnthb:....love leek and potato soup :gnthb: It is sadly still waaaay too cold here, and we still have snow, the current temp is -22 here, i give up, i am so sick of winter here in Ontario :flag::flag:

Hi again Its been a while, having big problems with the Internet. In the past I have tried growing basil and coriander but they were ratified failures. At the moment thyme that seems to be going well. Think I am just too impatient and end up killing them with kindness.Thanks for the replies...

Hi Marie. It's a good idea to keep the ends closed up for the time being. The general idea is to keep out icy drafts at this time of year. IMHO, I'd leave it closed until the seedlings were established UNLESS the weather picked up considerably. Of course, if we get the odd very warm day...

Carrots and beetroot indoors Dai ?

Aaron it takes time, but you are getting there.:thumb:

Dave, If it's a summer fruiting variety then you should cut down all the canes that have borne fruit after picking and then tie in the new unfruited growth which will provide the crop for next season. If you have the plants supported you should in February cut the tops down to with about 6" of...

I got fed up with waiting for weather heard Jim Bacon : weather man: on Mo Dutter this morning , he's a very keen gardner and live in Lincs. He said all onions/ shallots/ garlic should be in by now, and late frosts wont affect them . I put 50 Stuttgarter/50 Red Baron and a row of...

Hi all.Well, as an experiment, I potted up the brassicas, and well over half of them are doing fine, and have put on a spurt of growth in the recent warm weather. They are now all outside under netting.Neraly all the brussels have started to produce wee sprouts, some as big as a marble,...

I haven`t ever ever heard that one Terrier-i still have some parsley seeds left from my previous failed attempts and will give it one last try.

I am planting poached egg and nemophila plants to attract the predators of the pests-anyone had any joy with that in the past?

Thanks kristen. I have some T & M and some other seeds of the type that I really want. It was just that I would like to identify the ones with the black seeds. The flesh was not as spaghetti-like as the others but nevertheless quite worth the efort. Pat

Nip the tops out. best to grow dwarf varieties if Blackfly is a problem. you can spray with fairy liqiud diluted

Hi Thanks for the advice, I will get them in as soon as possible then.Dave

Thank you both for your advice. I'll cross fingers and hope to be back later in the year posting in the recipes section about what to do with them.

Adam you just have to work with what time you've got, things seem to catch up when planted later, you might not get such early onions as others but I'm sure that doesn't matter. I've found when planting in Jan/Feb that my onions tend to bolt (produce flower heads) so I try and leave it a bit...

I`m giving them a bash this year-sugarsnap mostly and I reckon if all goes well they won`t make it to the kitchen either.