Edible Gardening

We have chicken wire (make sure you get "rabbit wire", rather than Chicken wire - its a different mesh size) all around our garden, and [within that] round the veg patch too "just in case". We had it professionally installed, and they just bent the bottom 6" or 9" outwards and trampled into the...

I've grown foremost and can vouch for their taste - a good choice in my opinion :gnthb:

Spuds aren't native but come from the Andes, where it's too cold for aphids to live, and spread viruses. Here, any self seeding spuds would eventually succumb to disease after a few years. Certified virus free spuds are grown about aphid height (2000m in the UK, although my memory could be...

I am going to grow Gardeners Delight,sungold and shirley all ones i have grown before ,also Japanese Black Triffle,just to see what it's like.Hope we have more sun this year. joyce

Pepper plants grow to about 3 ft in height. As for their root size, the wife grew them in 1 ltr pots and they did well. Aphids seem to love them though so I'd watch out for that. Also they need lots and lots of sunshine, otherwise the peppers you get are small and bitter.

Mine came from Marshalls and are chitting as I type this

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I'll shortly be planting a Victoria plum on Pixie rootstock. Has anyone any idea of the likely spread when mature? I intend planting it near our compost heap but need to know roughly how far away from the path to plant it so that we don't get a poke in the eye when we walk past.

Hi Stony Likewise I had trouble working up the enthusiasm to clean out the greenhouse but having completed the job last week the feeling after was great I am now ready for the new years sowing and planting. I just need to control the urge to get started at the appropriate and correct...

I found some more bananas growing while on holiday in Cyprus in January. Bananas with flower still attached - Baby bananas just starting off - These ones are almost ready for picking - A close-up of the flower -

Chives, lovage, water mint. I used to have a particularly waterlogged veg patch in Scotland, it meant leaving the planting til late spring, getting stuff staarted in pots until it was dry enough to plant out Most of the root crops were fine as long as it wsn't actually under water, leeks...

Well as most of you will all know I do so love saving the pennies and I thought I got a good bargain from Aldi the other day a trio of fruit bushes for just mere pennies over £2! Needless to say I was a tad miffed when I discovered none were identifiable for a mere newbie like myself so it...

ah didnt know that, its looking very sad at the moment since I took the last lot off. Seemed to take ages to grow and high maintenence - caterpillar squashing!

:ntwrth:Dave, thank you for that idea, it is a stroke of genius. Butternut squash on the menu for me this year ! :yho:

Thanks for the info/suggestions - I won't be grass seeding now, but do like the idea of bark/wood chips thats cheers to you all.

That is well cheap!Shame I'm all spent up till payday !

Last year my King Edward seed were very small, and the crop was also very small (taters not quantity). This may have been the rotten summer or the ground not right.(recovered last year from under concrete but well dug & mucked). Trying Desiree this year, the seed is twice the size so I'll see...

Right so now there's alot more that have shooted, isn't it a bit early?? they're getting good roots on them but I'm worried about their timeing, they're just inside on window cills.

Hi Hammer, I am just about to sow my toms & peppers, I will leave the cuces until the end of the month. I use cell trays, putting one seed per cell and covering lightly with vermiculite. Sow about 4 extra cells than you need in case you lose them or they don't all germinate. Put the trays...

If they are 1 year old seedlings, no chance of cropping in 2 years.