Edible Gardening

With Autumn raspberries you need to cut all canes back to about 3 inches in height in February (which is what I do), including the short canes. It's not accurate - I've seen canes cut almost to ground level and somewhere between 6 and 9 inches high.If the short canes are really short, I...

wow, looks great!

Hello Radimus and welcome to the forum

Picked our first lot of forced stuff last week and cooked it with frozen strawberries from last year. Yummy!!!!!!!

With the ones I have, (Senga) it depends. Normally, I wont do anything at all apart from remove the runners in Spring. Every third year, I'll collect the runners, remove the old plants, then put the runners in their place.I never use any kind of fertiliser, ever.On the odd occasion I have...

Hi All, There is an offer on Groupon today for 5 fruit trees at £29 or 10 for £55. These are for trees currently 5' high which will grow to 6-7' max. Gala and Golden Delicious apple, Concorde Pear, Stanley Plum and Stella Cherry. The offer comes from Gardeningexpress.co.uk. I'm off to...

Not really golfer...other than brown paper sacks.....but you do need to check them weekly as some will be prone to rotting etc....you can't see if a spud is damaged in anyway. Hessian is supposed to be the best thing, but you do need to have a breathing hole in the top of the bag. Of course...

It looks like a cucumber plant with a lot of fruit

I'm with Hornbeam here - plenty of water are (touchwood) keeping mine going ok. They are quite bitter/peppery though, which I understand is from the hot weather.Try growing sunflowers in front of them for some shade?

Hello awizzbang,are the leaves brown on the underside and yellow on the surface?If yes it could be leaf mould.Spray with carbendazim and remove some of the lower leaves.Ventilate the gh especially at night.

If the manure was well rotted (i.e it looks nice and dark and crumbly and you can't make out any of the original material) then your veggies will do really well in it.

Hi again Kevin, I've had a look at a general gardening book of mine but it's not very helpful. Regarding the disease/pest, could it be apple sawfly that is causing the damage. I've also noticed in these new pictures that your trees seem to be very close to what is possibly a conifer hedge, that...

I have a grapevine (Madeleine Sylvaner) that I've pruned into a t-shape, i.e. a main stem about 2 feet tall with two permanent arms around 6-8 feet long at that level. I have left on a couple of long new growths from the bottom, a couple going sideways from the top of the trunk and one from the...

I've leafed through my horticulture book, and can't find the bit about certain flowers affecting fruit set. Maybe I'd remembered it wrong or maybe i read it somewhere else. I did find a couple of interesting bits that may be relevant to this thread though, if only for interest rather practical...

I've been trying to stop my rocket from flowering but when I went out to water them this morning one had a couple of flowers on, can I still eat from that plant?

That makes sense as the number of slugs and snails in my garden is insane! Thanks.

Must be good for Butterflies I guessNo poisonous Crucifers as far as I know

Thanks John

never tryed them but this is my 1st yr growing onions so thanks for that as i will now buy the same treated kind :D

It has been really warm and humid here, plus a lot of rain over the last few days. Have trimmed off affected leaves - hopefully I'm either wrong or early enough to control it :-/