Edible Gardening

Re potted my dwarf fruit trees this afternoon. First opportunity I have had. They are now in a compost/soil mix. Given a good drink and I hope they are ok with being disturbed. Will reduce the frequency I water - wont be easy.

I grow them in a row they did not need an support mind grow more like a small bush nothing like a pea really so the pods are really easy to pick

One of mine has flowered too, I mulched it earlier on in the year with very well rotted pig manure & watered it. I removed the flower as soon as I spotted it & have given it a really good soak, left it over night then this morning I gave it another water with some organic fertiliser, now I need...

Bum. Best get me some slug traps set up!

I'm glad they sorted it for you. I've used Premier Seeds and they have always been very good.

if you want short-rooted carrots then Amsterdam is ideal it is also perfect for freezing. if you want long-rooted carrots then you want New Red Intermediate. as for onions i use white lisbon (which is a spring onion), Bedfordshire Champion and rjnsburger.

i wouldn't put them in the growbags until they are tall enough (7-10cm) just to make sure they make it. I would then put only small plants in there otherwise if you plant tall ones you will need to stake them and since grow bags are very shallow you may struggle.

About the furthest point from the coast in England, and that's where my frost pocket, outskirts of village plot is, as far as you can get from warm coastal temps, in my village it's generally 2 to 3 deg C below overnight temps in the local town, and very often it's another 2 degrees lower...

Courgettes creep along the ground as Carllennon says. You can train greenhouse cucumbers however you want, traditionally folk train them up canes/strings so they can get quite high. On the other hand you can buy so called 'ridge' cucumbers for growing outdoors that you just let creep along the...

Think it might have been January. They were still definitely very dormant.

Thanks! Have done that now. Was surprised how pot bound they were so hopefully they'll do better now

Last year I successfully grew witloof chicory. I sowed it in June, dug it up in November and planted the roots in buckets in a shed. Now I can eat lovely salad: witloof with (cooking) apple and olive oil - easy, seasonal, lovely!I do seem to have left some root-bits in the ground however, and...

Another method I used years ago was to pre-germinate parsnip seeds in wallpaper paste in a plastic bag. As soon as they germinate you snip off a corner and squeeze it out into the seed bed row.

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Then (without seeing it) my best guess is that it was in the process of germinating. The root emerges first and then it opens up as the shoot emerges.

It might depend on how old they are but they look fine to me. Leeks are a bit of a slow grower in my experience. As pete said you could put the Leeks in one big pot and they'd still be happy.

Tell him to peel it and put some in his wallet ,When he askes why,Tell him the next time he opens it, he will have something to cry about .

HiI haven't grown this for years but what I do know if planting direct into the soil in the garden you will have to wait until all the frost are over with but if you have a greenhouse you can start planting now but the same don't plant out until all danger off frost has gone or if you have...

Thank you, this is really helpful and a good article. I did sow Red Baron onions (couldn't remember the name earlier) so I will try to get some sets of those. I'm not too close to Wilkos but I'm a frequent shopper at my local homebase so I'll check there. Roll on autum!

Don't put it straight out into -20, it'll kill it