Edible Gardening

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

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...

It is indeed caused by calcium deficiency, calcium is obtained via the roots and flows up but cant circulate so when water is short the plants growth can cause deficiencies. Magnesium however doesnt have this problem. I think the plants will scrap older leaves too to scavange it so it decreases...

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...

Looks great. Butternuts are one of the yummiest squashes, I use them for pompkin pie. Boil them till mushy, then add a bit of allspice, nutmeg, black pepper, salt and brown sugar. Add egg yolks, slap in your favourite pie crust and bake. Gorgeous.

"Pumpkin" pie

That's where I got my seeds from ricky

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

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.

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

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

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 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

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...

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.

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