Edible Gardening

Summer was a bit late to be planting and I don't think you did it any favours by giving it a cut so late in the growing season. Blackcurrants are normally very easy to grow. If you take a cutting and shove it in the ground there's a very good chance of it rooting. In your case I'd leave it...

Yeah, they had a good shock because of cold weather and trying to reproduce again. They are actually perennials, so are peppers.

Hi QuaedorTraditional advice was to add manure one year and then lime the next year, never both in the same year. I think they counteract each other if applied together and not in a good way.So if you're adding stable manure in a few weeks time, I wouldn't recommend adding either...

I've got an apricot tree that fruits very well. The fruits are ready early June (or thereabouts depending on the year). I find the only snag to this very productive fruit is that a full trees-worth comes ready all at once, and has to be dealt with there and then or they drop and/or rot. Could it...

Blight is a fungal disease. It thrives in warm damp weather

It seems very late to me for planting out leeks, my seedlings went out in June which I thought was the correct time. I would get them into the ground as soon as possible rather than the greenhouse, they are very hardy but have a lot of catching up to do.

Just clean up the messy leaves and stalks, cover the clumps with a bucket or sthg like that, so the plant has room to grow, and in early spring you will have nice and crunchy stalks growing. Ours are unstoppable, lifted the buckets up

Didn't grow any this year Kristen, but previously have grown Ogen which were small but very,very tasty.

Hi Nevhig, I've got a two-year old vine myself, so I was looking forward to reading a reply to your question. However, in the meantime, a search on the net produced this answer from the RHS link,Here's hoping that it helps you too...

If the compost is bone dry then they can be left in the pots. If there is ANY moisture in the compost get the spuds out before they rot.:gnthb:

Good evening Rhinecourt and welcome to the site. What variety is the grape and where is it growing? Have you thinned the fruit out? :gnthb:

I think you were just very unlucky FS, its been a very bad year for blight going by the number of people reporting it on here. I hope your remaining plants do well.

as long as the the colouration does not rot, gets soft of any sorts, then for ur sqash to go orange is absolutely normal Let it grow till end of this month to have a nice ripe fruit!!

My bet would be that they rot or slugs/insects find their way in.If you decide to pick now I should think they will taste OK.There is still time for more to grow and take over, so if you pick these now others will take over - pumpkins can only support two or three fruit per plant anyway

If they germinate I'm afraid that the chances of them producing plums as good as the ones they came from is slim at best:( as to get the exact same cultivar you would have to use a form of vegetative propagation such as grafting due to cultivars not coming true from seed.Your best bet is to...

If they are a variety of New potato then generally about 11 weeks after you planted them, a couple of weeks earlier if you want to sacrifice crop / tuber size for an early harvest.

Sounds delightful, well done you.

I presume because it si dwarf it will also be fast maturing, and the packet I've got here does indeed say sow until end July.I sow my Broad beans in the Autumn, and overwinter, for an early crop - that largely avoids Blackfly, which Spring-sown crops suffer from. Dunno if Blackfly will also...

I used to work in an old country house garden whre they set fire to the straw after picking all the fruit. On a dry day the straw would burn quickly taking the old leaves with it and any pests and mouldy fruit. The plants were never harmed and within a few days new growth would emerge and...

I have absolutely no idea about potatoes and when they are ready etc. I do love new potatoes though, and so today dug up some reds, blues and whites and had a wonderful potatoe salad with dinner tonight. My blues were very low in production, so will assume now that they are a late and leave...