Edible Gardening

i don't think i have enough space or earth to earth up my taters and onions... does this means i'm going to have poison taters?still no buds on onions or taters.

You don`t want flowers on your potatoes, you want the plants to put all their energy into producing potatoes. If you see flowers forming, take them off.:thumb:

It will probably grow back, but not make much leaf before it goes to seed. I find it better to let some go to seed, collect the seed and sow that to get decent new plants. It always carries plenty of seed given the chance, and the seed grows easily.

Thanks for the reply John,i shall have a look :thumb:

Lower arms???Dont forget the pipe and Olive Oil....Do you think that Shiney would make a good Bluto:D:D:D

Just like women eh!!!

To be honest I wouldn't worry too much - I always seem to get mildew on marrows/courgettes and still get a good yield - soem of my leaves have it bad because of all this damp cold weather - but once summer comes :rolleyes: all the new growth should be OK.Try the milk though it would be...

"for gawds sake admin get this silly system sorted out"I agree, but its a problem with the forum software (vBulletin) they are using [and thus not something the Admins can sort out TTBOMK]Maybe they could remove some of the censor-words that us lot won't care about.For a URL you could but...

We had our first radish last night. Hilds roter Neckarruhm. It was very peppery. Packet says Traditionally offered to accompany beer in northern Europe :thumb: ... I have just had the first tomato of the year :D

Thanks John

I had some advice once that when you get the seeds put them in a cup of water and only use the seeds that float as they will be the ones that germinate.I've got that far but i'm still in the drying stages at the momet

All my garden peas have now failed completely. The adjacent broad beans are storming!As I love the taste of freshly picked peas I have started some in pots. Probably far too late, but worth a shot!

If you can, plant them high up in a raised bed of some kind. Carrot flys only fly about 2 feet above ground level. I've built a raised bed and have sown plenty of carrots, so fingers crossed.

I always look forward to picking my first runner beans, I adore runner beans. At the moment the first beans are about 1'' long, I'm spraying the flowers to help them set and willing those beans to grow.

OK they are in I have only planted 4 of each to see how they go.They are in peat pots in the greenhouse. Roll on Christmas lets see if I get a picking then!!Thanks for the encouragementDave

Well ... the new 1 inch size seem to be dropping off near the top of the plants .. every morning when I go down to see them there's a couple more on the floor. The caterpillars were probably 1/4inch long ... if not less .. really tiny ... they'll be french of course so dunno what species .... ...

I can grow courgette's dead easy, don't know why....trouble is, I really don't like to eat them,Sods law I think.

Well my infestation seems to have gone now. Might have been the soap or lady birds or a combo of both.Thanks for all your help.

Yup, we get lovely potatoes from our heap too! Sometimes if there's quite a few, i break the stems so they compost down, but it is good to pull out a stem and find some lovely wee new potatoes attached!

" i pruned my plum and cherry tree and i have no fruit this year"I have no fruit on my trees (and I didn't prune them!). I suspect that you just got caught by a late frost which burnt all the blossom.