Edible Gardening

Thank you MisterQ, this is great. Very helpful indeed. Lets see if I am able to put this into practice!

Hi @Stooey89 These days, it's generally thought that wound paints and capping waxes aren't necessary and are likely to cause more harm than good. As long as you cut the branches close the branch collar and tidy up the cut, you should be fine. Tree Pruning, How to Prune Tree Branches Correctly...

There is a sticky thread hereUK seed suppliers (delivering to NI)

here is plate 20 of progressive steps in my graphical recreation of a 1918 war garden plan from Chicago tribune column "the successful home garden" by J F h heide.

Thanks for your replies.I have a 2Kw fan heater and line the greenhouse internally with bubble-wrap from October to about the end of the second week in April (I'm in eastern Devon so it's mild). I've no artificial lighting.It could well be that they got cold. My greenhouse is kept at a...

thanks but just to be clear are you suggesting it can be permanently kept in a 45-50cm pot. I want to buy a dwarf tree

I'm a big fan of seaweed products. I don't live near the sea so I buy seaweed meal that I liberally spread on the borders in Spring mixed in with some blood, fish and bone. The smell of the seaweed meal is lovely

Ooh, lovely! I love grapefruit, but I'm pretty sure I couldn't grow them here (nowhere to overwinter under cover and too cold to leave them out).

Back in the 80s we had a local pea farmer, ( famous for cutting down trees and ripping up hedgerows), and you could go to his farm to buy loose podded peas, idea for freezing it said.They turned out to be those hard as bullet type peas that were probably more suitable for canning or mushy...

Thanks for that Pete,that's more than I'd hoped for.

Hi sorry not sure but afreind of mine has the Liberty apple tree she said.its a sweet, juicy, and crisp apple and . is very resistant to scab, cedar apple rust, mildew, and fireblight

Should be Ok, they are pretty tough plants and hardy.

We have a wild apple tree growing nearby which has lovely looking fruit but absolutely tasteless! I guess it grew from a core someone threw out.

We bought two from Aldi some years back. One died but this one is doing well. @On the Levels, you have quite a production line going there!

Yes but no named cultivars or variants. Unfortunately they all had a similar taste and growth habit: I may be able to select some from this years genes but im also growing from tubers to see if they produce earlier. I do like them as a snack, but then we eat a cucumber a day normally.My...

"Pumpkin" pie

Last year I grew some very variable sized and shaped ones, I got some green topped ones and some red topped ones. Half were cylindrical shaped. This was all from a packet of Gowrie, or perhaps premier seeds mixed somemwrong seeds into it. This year ive grown an F1 called tweed and they are much...

I'd be more concerned with snagging birds rather than cats when using netting.

Thanks infradig, that sounds good to me.

I gave our friends in Paris some when I re-designed their front garden and they seemed quite pleased with the results When all's said and done, though, they're just short espaliers