Edible Gardening

I've had leaf beet AKA chard/perpetual spinach grow to around 2m high when gone to seed. It happens regularly if you grow enough of the stuff and I grow hundreds of them as greenstuff for our hens. Seeds need to be sown in open ground for optimum growth and in fertile soil plus kept moist.

Spring onions are tastier than chives. Every cloud has a silver lining!

Car boot?

Looking thru my seed box discovered a packet of climbing french beans Unwins Sultana, soaked them overnight will plant them later today hopefully they will come on when the runners have finished.

Can you do the trick of putting Banana skins near the green fruit, to hasten ripening, with outdoor Toms? or will the Ethylene just blow away?

Leave em in, they'll crop for the next 3 years and then take some more runners and replace the plants with the new ones

@intel, it's early for the plants to finish, should keep going for a couple of months - until we get cold nights. Some of the lower leaves will yellow before then but not all. I wonder if yours are getting enough nutrients, they need feeding regularly with a high potash food same as tomatoes...

Yes, but it might be a bit early (unless your are already bulbing up more than mine have so far ...)

Indeed, however I am now wondering (from what I have read ) whether there is ANY UK summer that will give a reasonable crop of Yard Longs ... seems to me its a Greenhouse-or-nothing crop ... but time will tell

The leaf damage looks as though it's just normal die back that some leaves get. Just remove them.The beans could be from a number of things from just natural loss, stress from uneven watering, wind damage, ant damage etc. but if it's just a small proportion of the crop then you just need to...

Had mine for about 4 years again from Aldi - again no fruit or flower. In fairness though, I planted mine into a area of sandy embankment that I wanted to stabilise with planting and it is said Gogi is a good plant for this ...... So mine is earning it's keep up to now!

We'll I decided to go for it :-) I cut it and tasted it.... Was soooo nice lol. Here it is, featuring in a burger :-)

I've grown mine in pots on the windowsill in the lounge. They were mini peppers and have had about twenty peppers so far. They look great. I just keep mine we'll watered and also used a soft paintbrush to pollinate the flowers as they opened. Seems to have done the trick!

I didn't know that you were a Scottish shorty, @Scrungee ?

Not a case of being wrong, just a difference between countriesI've used them as a floor in my shed at my allotment, and will use them again for a new shed up at home too.Many of the beds at my allotment are edged with them.Steve...

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I would just multi-sow Lindsay, some in a pot, some in a tray, some direct in the ground....Steve...

Just tap water, although it is usually warm from sitting in the greenhouse. My aubies seem to really appreciate the increase in humidity.

I wish my tomatoes looked like those monsters!

Looks good, woo!My apples and pears are looking abundant this year (but, I doubt I'll be around to harvest). My two rhubarbs are both earlies and did very well, but, they are in a bed with Jerusalem Artichokes and have disappeared under the assault