Edible Gardening

There is perhaps signs of hope ...

We have plenty of those in the local woods as well. I've seen fruit, very sparsely fruited though, on them twice in memory. Once about 5 years ago and a few this year. I don't think they even flower most of the time.

There must be a plentiful supply nowadays because I hardly go anywhere without getting a massive waft of it. It seems so common that no one cares to hide the fact. Until recently there were stickers on local lamp posts where you could scan the qr and order it.I think it's a nice looking plant...

Tried them outside, and nothing. I discovered that for some odd reason the anthers weren't shedding pollen. They would form the anthers, nothing further.So I ended up binning the plantsDoubt I will give it another go next summer.

I grow cultivated Rocket(from realseeds) and rarely have any problem with germination (of any of their seed). Can agree that it is prone to flowering at the slightest hot period, and being a brassica, attractive to cabbage whites, so needs netting. It readily sets seed and these too germinate...

the red flowered ones are hybrids with another genus, potentilla, or descendents of those hybrids, and are not as good at making fruits. They do still set but are more fragile

Too exotic for me but this guy has a clue or three;;;

I did consider moving it, but now that all the foliage around it has been cleared, I don’t think the position is too bad. Time will tell, of course. Seems a shame to replace it - I’d like to give it a chance after it’s battled the clematis for who-knows-how-long!

No, the biggest problems are birds I find, they peck them just before they are ripe, as they do with lots of fruit. You do have a very short window to pick them, as they can be not really ready one day, ready the next and getting over ripe or falling off the next.

Lovely harvestI tried black hamburg in my greenhouse but pulled it out as it was too big and got botyritis badly.then two years ago I bought two Supaga vines in a sale and put one down the allotment outside and one in my back garden. The back garden one is on an east facing wall but I'm trying...

I'm a little late this year with winter green sowing - wild rocket, valdor lettuce, garlic kale and red russian kale all showing from a sowing a couple of weeks ago... ...and then today sown more rocket, turnip greens, chard, oriental salads, claytonia, and cress, in an unheated greenhouse. I'll...

Everyone has their own particular reason for growing, or not growing, edibles. Over the years we have changed what we do but I agree that seeds have become relatively more expensive.We no longer grow root veg simply because of advancing years and the need for more bending and digging. With...

Thanks folks. Does this make the potatoes inedible?

It was last week sometime. They are very small, as you might expect! They also had tayberries and thornless blackberries.

Too right, since planting my un soaked garlic it has poured out of the heavens. We have had more rain in the last 2 days than in the whole of the spring and summer put together!

Mine in pot, it's "flowing" sideways.

However the last few mornings I have been peeling, coring and slicing quinces and then bottling them. It is hard going as the peeling is easy but the cutting to coring is not. But over 20 quinces done and 11 bottles filled. Still have so many on the tree but the last lot will be made into...

I bought Autumn planting Sets, and have good success of overwintered crops.

Without leaf it will not grow bigger. It is at risk of damage from slugs and (soon) rain. Depending on its future use, harvest and store in a dry, airy space. Cut it with a section of stem, as if a handle but do not rely on this to lift if it is heavy. For halloween use, carve as required only a...

i just bought some more do you find they take frost fine? how do you grow them over winter? i am new to lettuce, i have some good looking oak leaf ones right now that have maybe 5 big leaves eachthe seeds were 2 years old and germinated reasonably well in the warm