Edible Gardening

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Looking fit and healthy Zigs

From some keen gardeners' point of view that means you need a change of OH!

Got a couple of tattie bags in our local £ shop two years ago. I use el-cheapo grow bag compost and feed with home brew comfrey fertiliser. I reckon we'll start harvesting about the end of June as bags are in the polytunnel at present. You need to water regularly as they are thirsty plants.

Nice healthy looking plants, hope mine will be like that soon! They are still small.

A wheelbarrow and either a homemade sieve or plastic mushroom crate or bread tray.. Sieve the compost into the wheelbarrow, whatever stays in the tray goes back into the compost heap to break down further. Personally, I do not mind big bits if I am mixing compost directly into the soil. I sieve...

As promised - my first cucumber of the year ! -- And very nice it was too. I could probably let them get a little bit bigger than that in future...

Hi Nick, If you can, try to increase just the N,K and Ca at the 4th true leaf. Toms stockpile potassium (K) in fairly large quantities prior to flowering so they have enough to go at when the times comes. If the supply is limited they tend to wait around and use the time to generate more...

it will be fine , just let it get on with it and it will soon 50 times that size in a couple of weeks

Hi, I love blackcurrants but can't stand redcurrants so can only half help. Last autumn I butchered my seven blackcurrants bushes which were getting a bit scraggly. Maybe, 30cm trimming all over the plants - they did look WELL chopped when I finished. This is them this afternoon. These are...

I've now trapped 19 mice trying to eat seeds in my greenhouse.

Going to give them a feed tomorrow. Am I just feeding the Javelins or do they all get a feed. How long after a feed can I eat them? Can I just pull up one, two, three individual potatoes or however many I want? Or do I have to harvest the entire bag?

It has been really warm and humid here, plus a lot of rain over the last few days. Have trimmed off affected leaves - hopefully I'm either wrong or early enough to control it :-/

Well here are a few of my pics. 1) cucumber 2) courgette 3) sweet corn 4) Pentland javelins 5) mangetout 6) beetroot 7) cherry toms 8) radish 9) broccoli 10) round carrots - onions 11) carrots - spring onionsHappy to get feedback and advice.

280 French Marigolds coming on for planting in tunnel beds

If it's only at night the temperatures are low you could cover them with some fleece or bubble wrap removing it in the morning. I made a bubble wrap tent for mine as my greenhouse is unheated.

Sad day. RIP droopy melons. The gardener who came to trim a tree and a bush said yesterday that they were over watered. Killed by kindness. Oh dear. Well I have some more which about 3 inches which need reporting and sowed my last three seeds yesterday.Wish me luck.

Happines is chasing off the local heron and finding all your golden orfe are still there and not in that menaces gut

Re growing french beans.The way I do mine is when all chance of frost has passed,probable 1 first week in June,is to draw out a trench about 6 ins wide and no more than 2 ins deep,plant 2 rows of beans into this at 6ins apart and 3ins ( like this :::: between rows,then cover over. I also scatter...

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