Edible Gardening

Hi they are the sugar baby watermelons so not too big but would still take a fair bit of support I guess

Another way would be to lift your clump of chives this autumn, and divide it. I wouldn't do it now, because the plants are too stressed with the drought....

I did something like that before and put old yogurt pots on top of the canes and sometimes fixed the net to the top of the canes with clothes pegs.Net curtains sounds like a good idea might be able to pick up some cheap ones.

Well I have got rid of my raspberries now but I always propagated them when I pruned them and stuck the pruned canes in the ground and by Spring they were growing well..

Thanks @Scrungee

@JWK We grew winter Broad Beans which Mr Kandy sowed in November and when we came back from our holiday the other week they were infested with blackfly which we don’t normally get on winter beans.The infestation was so bad it was too late to do much about it and we didn’t want to spray with...

As i've worked which grain for many years, you always see rats and mice in some grain stores, if you have seen some of the things that go on you wouldn't eat bread againAs sayed above wash and discard any with bite marks

I impulse bought a 3-in-1 pack of raspberries some 8 years ago (from Wilkos- about £2 ), it has early, mid, and late fruiting plants. They have been growing happily in a 50cm container so far and give reliable crops every summer all summer long.Initially I tried to prune the varieties...

I think those are far more worthy of concentrating efforts on, especially using stuff picked from hedgerows for free.

Yes, tie down verticals except for main stem.For fruit, summer prune in late July early August.....do this by cutting shoots from tied down branches to 3 or 4 buds to create "spurs". It may be a little early for this year though. By cutting back like this in late summer you are encouraging...

Brill that’s what I thought but wanted to make sure thanks both

Hello Peter, Some varieties of plum are self-fertile but not all. Plums, gages and damsons: choosing cultivars/RHS Gardening This link will give more info. Sometimes, a frost or dry spell at the critical time in the fruit's development makes them all drop. Nothing much you can do about that...

Carrots - no problem once germinated. Germination can sometimes be a bit challenging.

Hello @Plosh I don't grow fruit or veg but when we had our property the previous owner was a grower of grapes / strawberries / Barley / Rhubarb and everything was all done in sections but the strawberries was planted by the kitchen window and we suffer here with pure sun trap gardens but where...

I must admit I was sceptical when you first posted about this last October @Habanerohead so you have proved me wrong, thanks it's always good to learn something new. I shall try your method this year

Yep that might be a problem if there is a lot of them but they stay edible a long time. I still have some from the last year and they are almost as fresh like at the last autumn. In Mexico, they are used also for sweets and in the Far East for vegetable soups. As their fruit flesh is a bit like...

Thanks both! I'll pinch them off then, even if my kid and wife will be grumbling They are amazingly fast growing, I did not expect that. 24h after taking that picture

June drop.....all those little ones will fall off.

Paul, my thoughts include, not good applying manure last autumn. Carrots will not perform well in that. Also what compost did you use? MPC? This dries out fast, possibly too fast for seeds, and is difficult to re wet. Watering? Erratic watering is not good either. (Hence my apprehensions...

Basically, because the tree knocked itself out producing that bumper crop last year. It's a problem known as "biennial bearing" and this article from the RHS has some tips for sorting it out: Fruit: biennial bearing/RHS Gardening