Edible Gardening

Thanks. The smaller one I found between the pots, so that one wasn't picked and was probably there for a few days.The greeny bit isn't too hard - I've eaten both with no problems, very tasty!

Richard, good idea using a hammer to straighten your cucs

Burnie, Do you ever get the feeling you are talking to yourself?

I sowed some Early Nantes the other week, but it depends where you are. Slugs would be a problem when trying to overwinter them.

I have no idea what kind of raspberries I have, but they are on their second cropping of the year.

You probably won't bother growing them next year then

Thank you, thank you, thank you. It's the small victories that make gardening that little bit more pleasurable.The Brassica Trinity! Craig1987, please post some pictures of it.I am especially eager to see how your broccoli turned out as we have problems with the heads not forming properly.

Awww they look reli nice I'm growing some first time can't wait to put thm in a crumble do u only have one plant

Hi Max I have the same problem regarding some flowering, too dry perhaps, oh I don't know

Hello Ryan11112, The most likely explanation is that it needs another pear tree nearby to pollinate the flowers. Here's a link to the RHS site where all is explained!

I have recently eaten avocado in a salad made with quinoa (dark and light), cashew nuts, rocket salad, dark beans and salmon...it is not a taste or a texture that I like particularly, but I don't mind eating it on the light of the fact that it is healthy.

Shirley are F1 hybrids so will not grow true if grown from saved seeds.Non-F1 seeds are easy to save, some people just dry off seeds, but the 'recommended' method is to squirt seeds from ripe fruit into some water and let them ferment for a few days, then rinse/strain to remove crud and dry. I...

Nice healthy looking tree.

I've now picked over 50lb of beans in the last three days and they'll be sold tomorrow. A problem we've had is that because of the hot sun for the last month or so the beans have been producing thicker skins and lumpier beans. This hasn't occurred on the inside of the ShineyFrames as they...

I am up to my neck in Beetroot! I grew Cylindra this year and extremely pleased with the results. I think this variety is sweeter than the more commonly available Boltardy variety that I have grown in the past. I have cooked and frozen Beetroot in the past but then used it as a side vegetable...

That's true, you could keep picking and they'll keep coming on, nicer to have young pods now than a handful of dried beans that you could buy for next to nothing from a shop

All my dwarf French beans got ravaged by nibbling beasties. Luckily Asda have ample supplies !

Just what I need to know

Burnie, it is a prizewinner.

The plants have been like this for quite some while even before i started feeding them