Edible Gardening

Excellent idea John, I'll keep that in mind for next year.

Welcome to GC!If you don't know what mushrooms they are then don't eat them. They probably won;t harm the peppers but I'd remove them personally. Good luck with the gardening!

Not much availible to amatuer growers these days, on edible plants, I dont think. Rust was always a difficult one anyway.

Another one to try is Cristal lemon or Cristal Apple. These are round Cucumbers about the size of an Apple. I have found they grow better outside than in. Trevor

Pam: Thanks for that. We decided to plant one outside and keep the others in 'Greenhouse conditions', we don't actually have a Greenhouse as such but somewhere where the temperature and light can be controlled. Just have to wait and see I suspect.

Thanks Armandii, Sungold and Gardeners Delight. I'm particularly pleased with the Sungold, it's the first time I've tried them, very sweet. Last year I tried Golden Pearl, but wasn't that impressed with the flavour.

One of my favourites is adding the flavour & bouquet of Honeysuckle flowers to Crab Apple jelly, but you need to press the juice from the crab apples, pasteurise it, then make the jelly the following year when the Honeysuckle is in bloom. Here's one I 'prepared earlier'

I'm trying "Emelia" this year, my first attempt at growing spinach so watch this space!

It would certainly help, if its rotted. I don't think manure will make them bolt, in fact it would also help with moisture retention as well as feeding them.I'm going to be manuring my Kelsae onion bed before they go in.

Its flowering, and will produce yellow flowers. Its past it, you should have eaten the shoots when they were smaller tight budsBest put on the compost now, although the actual roots might be a bit woody and best burnt or disposed of in a wheelie bin.

Aww Scrungee thats the kind of Pumpkin i've got, first time i've ever grown any and i've got one so i'm pleased even if it is small.....will post it up on the Pumpkin growing thread

James Grieve is one I have, seems a very reliable cropper, mine is quite small due to me being impatient and wanting apples when it was young, but covered in fruit. I have thinned them out to two per bud as suggested by Monty the other night, just to give the tree a chance.

Hi golfer. I'm inclined to say it should be ok, as long as it IS well rotted. I would say that the colour of it should be really dark, almost black, and it should virtually fall through a fork. I'm sure more knowledgeable gardeners here will be able to be more definitive. Hope this...

Have four butternut squash that have just started to run. Grue them last year and did not pinch the leader. I got a small number of good fruit. Question????? Did I do right? should I stop the leader and then the side shoots or do I let them run. This year there is a danger that they will take...

I have absolutely no idea about potatoes and when they are ready etc. I do love new potatoes though, and so today dug up some reds, blues and whites and had a wonderful potatoe salad with dinner tonight. My blues were very low in production, so will assume now that they are a late and leave...

What's actually happening, are the leaves rolling up. Are there any insects on the backs of the leaves.

thanks daitheplant

I have put in somw grun gooseberies in raised beds this year and their leaves gone red,is this normal or do i have a problem . My invicta , careless and grun grown in the same way all seem to be normal.

Ahh good point re pollination! Thank you. I'll put them outdoors.

Hi Herb,Yep, parsnips,carrots, sweet corn, bulbing fennel & pak choi don't like root disturbance, you need to grow those in biodegradeable tubes that you can plant straight out.