Edible Gardening

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Thanks Nigel, you've sorta confirmed what I've just discovered. I've just had a look now and there's 4 definite "branch" looking things sticking out from under the big leaves near the bottom. The longest is only about 4in but it has produced multiple leaves along it so I'm a happier gardener...

7ft that's good, just tie them in, to the support wire, so the wind doesn't damage them.

In 2018 I bought a dwarf cherry tree - I think it is a Stella, certainly a self pollinating one. Last year it did nothing (apart from grow a bit), but i just thought it needed time to acclimatize. This year it had about 6 blossom flowers but they came to nothing. Disappointing to say the...

That makes sense because my cuties are in a part shaded area which gets full sun for only 3 hours per day and i always water at the base, never on the leaves :-)

I wondered if 2 & 4 could be a young Comfrey, so took some pics of a leaf

I'd use a high potash fertiliser, i manage to get actual wood ash which is almost the same, put it on in the spring. I hardly prune the ones in the front and they don't get too big, but the ones in the back i cut back because they're close to the footpath and get in the way.

Thanks. Went into double-disaster mode: have a mister filed with saline & have now ringed the rescued mint round with cut lengths of bramble, which will hopefully hold them off till the nematodes arrive. Don't want to dose the earth with salt where possible. Think what's happening is that in...

It looks like a cucumber plant with a lot of fruit

Ohh okay, I think I'll have to wait a few more weeks as I kept mine indoors for a while.. but when you mentioned roasting them that sounded really good ... I think I have my mind set on what I should do

@Selleri Mine are pretty much at the same development stage despite not having suffered any accident I think I should have brought some to my mum in Italy, given the temperature there is much higher, they could probably establish as perennials. But then my mum can go months without watering...

Ok. So not been on here for a while but thought that I would like to share a photo of something which I am very proud. A wonderful display and the the weekend weather did them (and me) proud!

It might grow black berries, but don't eat them.

Hi folks At my parents they have 3 blackcurrent and 1 or two redcurrant bush. Maybe up to ten years old. both have fruited ok thus year. but the red current has died back completely to crispy brown leaves. While the blackcurrants still have green leaves I'm much more partial to the red...

Mr Fleur is Mexican and an amazing chef so this year I thought I'd try and grow epazote, a Mexican herb, to encourage him to make the dishes he refuses to without this little guy being available!Mexican sites aren't super useful with care notes - it's pretty invasive and fast growing out...

What ever it is, when you find out for sure, there used to be a product brand called PY, they did a range of treatments for edible crops, once applied, or the product dried, it was safe to eat the crop, havent seen it for a while. If it is bugs you can use the following: 4 parts of any of the...

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Hello everybody, thanks so much for all the advice! I was a bit down over the last days, the weather has been a bit depressing too, so I did not spend much time in the garden at all.. But today I went and trimmed most affected leaves and fruits to let air in. I feel a bit silly because, hidden...

Or in the hay they’re fed with.

Thanks everyone. I have some strawberries on the way and seeds to take up the rest of the space in the bed. It'll be nice to have crops later in the year and it'll set me up nicely for next year's growing.