Edible Gardening

Might be whitefly dropping their "honey dew" which attracts moulds. I get that, I just wipe it off when the Toms are picked. Its of no consequence, except being a bit unsightly.If you share your plants gently and get a cloud of white flies :eek: that may be the problem.However, yours sounds...

I have had the earliest "Beef" tomatoes ever, this year! Started harvesting in mid June (not sure of the date) but they have been a poor crop and poor taste almost from day one, compared to other years. Mine are grown in a greenhouse in my rear garden.Was chatting to two fellow plot...

Hi Bovey,The nylon curtain (it's about 3 1/2 ft high) stops the carrot fly getting to the carrots and it's never emoved - should last about ten years but whatever, it's be long enough for me! Mixing the garlic with the carrots isn't really on because of the planting distances and the size of...

Odds on it was the manure that did it! Brassicas don't like acid conditions.

"If you are only planting them out now and they are going into dibbled holes I've my doubts about them being able to put on enough growth to make it a viable propostion earthing them up with tubes."I have that doubt too!

"If the original seeds were f1 hybrids does that mean i'm now in the f2 generation and so they won't be successful"Yes. Plus if they are an F1 greenhouse / indoor variety they will be sterile, so you won't get anything at all!

I feed mine well after the final truss has set. Just because the fruit has formed doesn't mean the fruitlets are not taking up nutrients.I increase the potash ratio (the K in the NPK) in the feed late in the season in order to encourage ripening.

Steam them my mum says that what you should do with them.

Well done :thumb: :thumb: :thumb:

picked first beetroot, biggest one was 450 grams.thanks again

It's a very common mistake that almost all beginners make, too many seeds started of too many different types of plant and I'm still doing it. This year I've ended up with about twelve tomato plants (four different varieties), nine cucumbers (three different varieties) and more chillies and...

Hi Prastio. The reason that you would sow 'early onward' is that they mature that bit quicker. Cheers...freddy.

Tights work well, although they DO look a little strange.....hanging there :D

Crikey - thats a lot of info!

Yum. You cant beat that just picked taste!

I have some space that had early potatoes in. What can I plant which will fit in with whatever next should be put into the bed next season (aliums I think)? Many Thanks Paulz

The sweetcorn cobs seem to be bigger everyday (hopefully thats a good sign). An extra cherry tom has started to change colour even though it's done nothing but rain for the last few days (maybe they're resigned to the fact it's wet all the time and cloudy), the weeds are shooting up and it's...

My Tom's are all green as well. Are we ever going to see the sun again? I can't imagine a brown paper bag will do any harm - should keep that from sweating and rotting in any instance. Any body - please correct me if I am wrong.

I have just found that I have one fruit on each of my 3 aubergine plants!! They were hidden behind some tomato plants and I hadn't noticed, just kept watering in their general direction and then yesterday I decided to pull them out and have a look and there they were!! I have put some feed in...

I once had a large crop of Beetroot. Although I knew how to grow the stuff, I didn't know how to pickle it. I neglected to boil it before adding the vinegar. I am hoping that one day, the acid from the vinegar will soften the slices!