Edible Gardening

In 2018 I bought a dwarf cherry tree - I think it is a Stella, certainly a self pollinating one. Last year it did nothing (apart from grow a bit), but i just thought it needed time to acclimatize. This year it had about 6 blossom flowers but they came to nothing. Disappointing to say the...

i tried carrots in containers once, when i dug them up they were all weird funky shapes...one looked like a creepy little man, legs & arms and all lol

Hey guys and galsThought I might try soybeans this year (like a challenge!), have bought some T&M seeds, variety 'ustie'. Supposedly for a more northern climate.Anyone got any idea of what kind of support I need for them? ie are they a bush type, a climber or a tall type?Cheers, Nick

I'm doing good this year! Yippeeee!!!! My 3 cherry and 2 plum tomato plants are coming along nicely and beginning to flower.my basil pot:Left to right: green beans, carrots/peppers, green beans/courgettes Then on the stoned area is tatties, strawberry plant, 2 x raspberry plants, kiwi...

Hi Everyone, We have grown cucumbers for the first time this year in a container, they are really doing well. We have loads and loads of tiny female cucumbers growing, do I let them all continue to grow or do I take some off to allow the smaller number of cucumbers more goodness from the...

They keep for years if you cut them into rings and dry them

Radish, cabbage, carrot all flowering. Carrot pulled to reveal tiny white root. Should have left the flower to open at least it would have been pretty. Torrential rain past few days so expecting blight any day now

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...

Hi,There is a dedicated Chillies 2020 thread that might help, also have a look at the Chillies 2019 very long thread, bound to be plenty of good info there.CHILLIES 2020

Mine too, not entirely sure where to grow it I think it needs lots of space. Have you grown it before Zigs and if so how did you treat it?

Now you know it's not nice telling tales,Vince, especially if Carol finds out!

Fret, I only ever grow Gladiator, they are the earliedt variety I have ever known being ready to harvest in August. A little tip to make harvesting easier for you, if you dig a hole about 4 inches deep around the top of the parsnip and fill it with water a couple of times you will find the plant...

No, just move them to cooler conditions with more light.

Is there any benefit by takeing the crown out of sprouts i have heard that it helps the buttons to swell any ideas cheers all mick

Whatever you do there is still 3 months good growing, so seems a waste if you just stop them now.Mine are also up to the top of the greenhouse as well and what I usually do is carefully bend/train them over and to come back down , like the professional growers do.You can come back down the...

What you would normally do, Bob, is dig a hole about 6" deep and drop the leek into it. This will, obviously, blanch the lower part of the leek. Which is what you want. Earthing them up will do the same thing, but you need to be careful not to snap them. I think whoever advised you was confusing...

We'd picked some blackberries over the summer, and I also had some strawberries from Tesco which started to turn before we could eat them. Answer? Blackberry brandy and strawberry vodka! 2 months later, it was time to strain them and inspect the results.Strawberry vodka is kind of a partial...

I spelled somehing wrong should have readi meant to say can one make deserts or something with them or do something with wine.

Hi folks At my parents they have 3 blackcurrent and 1 or two redcurrant bush. Maybe up to ten years old. both have fruited ok thus year. but the red current has died back completely to crispy brown leaves. While the blackcurrants still have green leaves I'm much more partial to the red...

Looks like leaf miners. Hold a leaf up to the light and you might be able to see the insect inside the leaf . They often grow out of it if it doesn't get too bad.