Edible Gardening

Thank you. I've solved the mystery - I need to get my seedlings labelled correctly next year. I found another plant in the greenhouse also labelled Aubergine: ...which looks entirely different from what I now believe to be "bolted" spinach! Oops.

I polinate the cucurbits by hand & give the sweetcorn a shake. oooohhhh Matron Spruce

Well done Ciryluk. Aubergines are really tricky. I tried for years and got nothing but flowers. Last year I got 2 big whoppers but I'm not growing them anymore. All that space and work for 2 aubergines is not worth it. I think I just wanted to prove I could grow them. Enjoy your bumper crop and...

I don't pinch mine out, as they bush up naturally. If you pinch them out it takes 2 or 3 weeks for them to get back to where they were (but you will need to do that if they don't bush out naturally).Mine grow a bit more than knee high, and a couple of feet across.

Devious is my middle name! I've spent most of my life working out, legal, ways around stupid rules and regulations. It's a, sort of, hobby of mine! (Sad, I know ). I've done it for myself, friends, clubs, businesses (big and small) and even a local authority.

I once had a lettuce and salad cream sarny. I was just about to bite into it when I say two beady eyes appear on stalks, and a tiny slug popped out to say hello.

If any members are interested, like myself, in growing Giant pumpkins I have just bought some Atlantic Giant seed from a charity sale on e-Bay .All the proceeds going to MacMillan Cancer Support! Search for 'charity pumpkin seed' on e-Bays search engine! Hope to report ...

it seems fruitful, but how to stock them, they looks so many.

Awsome.....i've been picking beans for a couple days now, nothing like fresh, right out of the garden!

See this link it should help >

Seems I should have looked at Dave W's link, thanks Dave

I love my Hostas too much to eat them !!

yes doing dandy !!

Yes 4 years old. I cut a few last spring but didn't give in to temptation.I cooked some last weekend. I wrapped them in dry cured bacon and baked them in the oven. Served with hollandaise sauce.

Thanks Dave - figured definitely the wrong time of year - don't know how long they will still have the house for and if it could be relocated at a later date. :(

That's right Mark, but in the first year of cropping don't take more than a couple of spears from each crown.

When the spears poke up in the Spring (exactly when depends on your area/climate), you can take a stem or two from each plant. (Before the pointy end starts opening out). If the plants are big and strong, you can do it again this year. That will probably be it for 2020, but as long as the fern...

Oooh how evil I like it :thumb: LOL

I grow them in a row they did not need an support mind grow more like a small bush nothing like a pea really so the pods are really easy to pick

No, I brought them from my previous garden, dug up some small ones. They were seedlings of the originals bought as 3-year crowns from a local grower near Cambridge. Buying 3-yr crowns is a good way of starting, growing from seed will take that long to get going. Most garden centres sell them...