Edible Gardening

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...

@Greybelle We have had similar issues over the years. We have tried hanging old CDs so that the swing and reflect the light, hung old white sheets torn into strips etc etc. Birds totally ignored them. We then made a model of a sparrowhawk that was hanging at the end of a flexible tube that moved...

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!

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

Found this earlier today: Interstems, stem-builders and double-working Similar reasoning applies to grafting in ornamentals.

If you can provide it with an acidic bog it'll romp away. If not, I wouldn't bother

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

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@BobTG Thanks

Thanks @pete . Maybe just some odd function of this laptop, but it's not a huge deal if I can get it all working on Firefox. I don't use Google other than for...Googling....I'll have a look at that as well though.

I prefer autumn planting as well, but did once get a decent amount by spring planting.

Not a weedkiller etc as we rarely use any and never on or near our veg/fruit beds. The Rasps are well into the garden so no chance just they could be affected by drift from another garden.

An eco friendly pond liner might be an option, I just did a search, they exist!

I only ever direct sowed and put sticks in for them to climb up, bit old fashioned I guess. I dont think they are a valuable enough crop to mess around with too much TBH.

Mine are only just at that stage - first proper leaves, or very slightly more, but I wouldn't consider having them in the gr'house for ages yet - far too vulnerable, and not consistently warm enough for them. Perhaps it would be better to sow later They need plenty of light early on, so the...

Maybe too little light as well - if I was to sow it now, or even end of March or so, it would have a cover [ie in a basic propagator] and grown on for quite a while. The lack of light is a bigger problem here than further south though. Hope another, later sowing will take. I used to leave a...

Aye, give them a chance. Are they in the ground, pots etc ? Did you add fertiliser ? - seed potatoes are partial to some fish, blood and bone fertiliser.fish blood and bone - Bing

Mine are just growing their first true leaves (except a couple of stragglers). I'll probably transfer them into individual pots next weekend, then they have about a month to six weeks before it's safe to put them outside in the open permanently. They'll be doing the hokey cokey (in-out-in-out)...

If you want to maintain the variety over time you'd need a minimum number of leeks flowering in a patch to do so. Quick Google suggests 20 for leeks, dont know if thats accurate.. It's a bit annoying if space is at a premium, but at least leeks look good when flowering.I tried saving more...

Funny how slugs and snails go for peppers, but ive never seen them on my tomatoes. The worst is they go for the fruit itself!