Edible Gardening

Will be interesting Kate keep us updated please.

Not sure if this helps or not but as my tag line says I'm a lifelong Allotmenter. Every season is different. I still have failures as well as sucesses, as long as you have more sucess overall thats what matters The advantage of an Allotment space is it's dedicatwd to one purpose, growing...

Last time I grew a pumpkin, pictures from 2011. I never ate any of it, I gave it to a mate and I think it ended up just getting destroyed so not bothered since.

I believe they like hot fairly humid conditions and mostly for longer than we are likely to get in the UK. They are probably an annual plant as well, growing the following year by nuts already buried by the parent plant, the year before, in a natural setting.

tumeric makes for a good dye with cotton based stuff but it leeches slowly so dont wash it with other stuff. I dyed string with it to make gold decorations for christmas. just a small amount of powder (i guess crush the live root instead), in with some boiling water and the string for 13 hours...

@Adam I Sounds a bit too advanced for me

Given 40 years of good service in return for one seal and one safety value I reckon I'm already well ahead.

There are figs in the ground here that yield like mad but theyre still fairly young, they will eventually get very big and then you cant pick them.