Edible Gardening

Rhubarb like good deep soil and plenty of water. They are hungry plants and require a good feed every year, mulch as well, well rotted manure is best, but a handful of general purpose fertiliser and a mulch of well rotted garden compost will work. I would remove the small plants you dont want...

I had to make that decision last year. It was really hard comparing them and the winner was.... None of themIn the end we went with a Mirabelle Plum ("Nancy") because it is a lot friendlier to eat and blooms nicer (at least in my opinion)

ThaThanks Im totally new to pollenating vegetables. When I had my veggie patch, with the smallholding we had, it was just a trailer full of chicken and horse manure with some peat and soil mixed in. I threw few bags of seeds randomly there, watered few weeks with garden hose every time I had...

Hi, Thanks for the comments! It is actually a historical account of how I went through the process of learning how to get that crystal clear water and beautiful plants that I so wanted. Its a story from rookie beginning to getting to a nice setup, my personal experience of when things go wrong...

Cos was the one I used to eat until I found the round lettuce, I've ordered all the year round and a Gustavs salad seed so I'll see how I go with those.

Hi, I use a mix of multipurpose compost and my garden soil (which is heavy clay) and some grit in my permanent containers. In the spring I mix some slow release fertiliser granules and rotted manure to the top part, sometimes also some blood&fish&bone if there's any left after the roses....

It was probably just a slug or snail on it @ricky101 Good looking leek though - what variety?

Ok, thank you all, will put them in a room with no heating and should be ok.

Thanks for advice.. I will take a risk when whethers better in planting in with my dwarffruit trees and Im also going to try plant some in a terracotta planter pyramid Ive created.. Im hoping to have different kinds of strawberries so i have some all seasons if at all possible... Hope it does

It all depends on how many flowers there are, if it's just a few I'd leave them.

One had a hole (slug maybe) which needed boring out otherwise completely solid.Sorry I just planted any old how, so I don't know which part of the sliced up seed tuber produced it. I dug up half a dozen roots to see us through Christmas and they were a bit variable, some had fewer tubers than...

I grow a lot of Spinach, the quick growing annual type. I don't do anything special to the soil, no compost or fertiliser. I grow it in succession as after a few weeks it runs to seed. As for varieties I have success with Amazon, although others do ok too.I do the same thing with Rocket and...

They need to be spaced out to grow really big, like this grower does

I'm very grateful for all input and advice, I can think over winter what to do.

Hi Glynne i would second seed parade and i also get good seed ,service from Nick's nursery Rgds Sandy

Cucamelons Mike to look at are miniature water melons ,delicate netted markings in green ,very effective actually. They are at the biggest an inch long and about half inch wide.quite thick skinned and all is eaten. I find them ok with salads but not a fruity type. I find the taste bland. More of...

Not tried those, thought about it but not worth the bother as i give 95% of chilies away, tried various sprays based on seaweed and other organic ingredients, both home made and professional. Garlic smoke bombs etc. I use nematodes every year for slugs so not adverse to biological controls....

It's usually the opposite problem.....keeping up with and removing them Lovely, tasty variety, though

Thanks @Scrungee

Should add I've got a Muscat Bleu 3 yrs old now, got the first real crop this year. Quite impressed, very early and good sized berries that dont require much thinning, down side is the pips.