Edible Gardening

Courgettes any day now! Been at the mange tout already and the goosegogs and summer raspberries.

What is a root sucker?Was reading ehow and they suggest it's got high success rate for growing from cuttings

Last week I had a walk around Helmsley Walled garden and came across their Charlotte potatoes,looks like they had the same problem as me..I couldn't find anyone to speak to about them though ...

Actually that does sound like unpollinated plants. A bit weird as you've got several. we get the occasional unpollinated fruit, but Mother Nature gets the rest pollinated. Maybe try hand pollinating with a cotton bud or similar. I think the stigma is ready to receive the pollen before the flower...

I'm still using replanted bolted onions from last year in my sandwiches Just pick a leaf off every morning

I think, given the late start, it will be pushing it!! to get much/any crop off those Peppers this year. Folk tend to start them early (relative to other things) as they take a while to get going. But ... with a good Summer & Autumn you never know, and if nothing else you would gain experience ...

Just love them raw, But in anticipation scoured the web for ideas came up with a pickle : 2lbs Zucchini,1 Medium Onion,2 teaspoons salt,1 and half cup cider vinegar, 1 and half cup of white wine vinegar, 2 cups of sugar,1 teaspoon mustard seed, 3/4 spoon black peppercorns, 1 and a quarter...

It sounds more like slug damage. Have a look at the lettuces late at night, that's when slugs come out and do their damage. You can pick them off or use a few carefully sprinkled slug pellets if you're not organic.

Nope, the leaves dying back means the plant is a gonna, the tubers will not get any bigger.

I tried them last year, like you say I found them a bit tough and stringy. The grandkids loved them only because they gave them purple tongues and teeth. So I'm not bothering with them again, back to normal sugarsnaps this year which have been lovely tasting.

Must admit I myself have never grown peppers like this but I think it might be how its done commercially, I remember years ago someone telling me that pepper plants that are grown for supermarket produce usually are very tall. I think it will give you better quality peppers, but peppers, I...

When Iwas working the farm on the estate used to gow wheat for flour one year it got weevils the silo had to go for animal feed so storage could be a problem

hi folks, I've got a thornless blackberry growing in a pot on my balcony and dreams of eating delicious fresh fruit from a plant which has taken over the whole building. But no, lovely new growth in the spring was soon knobbled by what appears to be a tiny tiny white moth, the leaves are...

I have one of these on one of my plants just now too!

Apart from yours being in a raised planter I stopped growing Dwarf French Beans 'coz it made my back ache picking them! We grow Climbing French, from which we get a flat bean that the family likes (a bit like a runner bean, but not so coarse, so more like a French Bean in that regard) and also...

That's a bore Bloke had a bog brush on the end of an industrial stirrer - sort of thing that plasterers use - and put some spuds in a bucket, sprayed water on with a regular hose & attachment, and they were beautifully peeled in about 10 seconds flat, then tipped into a pan ready to put on the...

Effy66, you still have not said what size your tomatoes actually get to. Maybe they are perfectly normal, you wouldn't expect those varieties to be big beefsteak size. In any case, if they taste good and you get plenty to eat, does it actually matter what size they are?

Swapsies?

I'm just imagining being snogged by a slug with onion breath. Ah, happy days!