Edible Gardening

Thanks ricky101. I didn't think about the soil. Back to the drawing board.

You are indeed a devotee @sandymac and we are both looking forward to the yield from@JWK s Gardeners Delight, Jenny

I agree :D Also, to be honest, while his book makes plenty of sense, in my limited understanding of gardening, Sutton's retails under his range a bunch of stuff he never really mentioned in the book :D

Thank you all for your help, cheers

They've developed a new tactic. After many years of waiting until the first few were ripe before netting (to reduce the time we'd have to check every day for Blackbirds trapped in the netting) the local Pigeons now eat the lot before they're ripe. They do the same with Cherries.

Lessons learnt from a cactus the size of your hand do not scale to garden plants. They certainly aren't going to work on a standard size apple tree. Meths these days also contains an additive to make it taste nasty (which is why people don't drink meths any more). I'm not putting that anywhere...

Whatever you do there is still 3 months good growing, so seems a waste if you just stop them now.Mine are also up to the top of the greenhouse as well and what I usually do is carefully bend/train them over and to come back down , like the professional growers do.You can come back down the...

Many thanks great idea

Doesn't look like mildew to me, its just the way the leaves grow. Mildew makes the leaves look dull. Agree that mildew tends to come later in the season when the roots get dry and the plants are struggling a bit.

Hi Pete, yes Cara is a maincrop, growing some for xmas dinner and I agree charlotte taste crap from the supermarket but fresh out of the garden? Sublime.

You can adapt all sorts of things to hold like a sort of sling.. Or use old stockings..

Thanks, I will give it a try then. I just planted in pots 20 or so cuttings and put them in one mini greenhouse, sheltered from direct light. Fingers crossed at least some will make it!

I could do but was frightened to harm all those lovely Red Worms. I dig out the nest and laid it on the path and picked out the Worms & put them back in the bin.

Oops! You are right Pete! My wife and I are chuckling at our error. Thanks for pointing this out. Take pity on us as we are new at the veg growing game!We grew courgettes from seed too and have obviously got the labelling mixed up. The courgettes we put straight into the garden have done ok...

Broad beans starting to crop nicely now:Variety 'De Monica', btw.

@ricky101 See here for info Propagating Blackberries – Rooting Blackberries From Cuttings I've layered tips whenever I've needed to propagate a blackberry.

hallo pete and victoria ----- yes am in hungary, winters can be hard to -15 but that hasnt happened for a few years now, usually down to about -5 for a week or two and some snow ---- so thats where i went wrong: i thought the new shoots bring the fruit so i deliberately cut them back, what a...

I put CDs around, plus a scarecrow. The scarecrow moves from tree to tree as the crops ripen, so the birds don't get used to him being in one place. It's worked so far this year

Great garden @Steve R !

Here's how the garlic turned out.Harvesting the garlic a month early because I needed the space.