Edible Gardening

I'm glad I have read this as all 8 of my courgette plants have the white markings on the leaves

They've got a maximum of two chances Dunno whether I should, or not?? but I use Neem Oil (and Horticultural soap as a wetting agent) on edibles that get plagued with aphid or Red Spider, and it seems effective (although Cucumber leaves tend to dry up and go brittle as a result, but the...

I think you might have a rabbit problem. With 6 - 8" high carots slugs would eat through the stems leaving bitten off chunks of leaf on the ground, or nibble some leaf off a stem, but rabbits scoff the lot, starting at the top and working down.

You sound like Mrs K She equates "New Potatoes" with "nice small Jersey Royals from the Supermarket" The ones in the Supermarket are graded, so all a nice small size. The ones in your garden are growing, and if I harvested them at the size Mrs K wants I would get 4 spuds per plant and loads...

They were delicious! The taste was like nothing I've ever bought in the shops...they really do taste better when you grow your own. Am having a stab at sweet corn and cucumbers this year...oh and runner beans and mini peppers!

Yes, important that they don't get too much heat as a side effect from "good light". A closed south facing window can be like an oven, in that regard, with heat generated by the sun trapped near the window. So that's the thing to avoid. But "hot" and "sunny" is fine, just need to avoid them...

Hi, JaneI have a 'red wriggler' worm, the compost kind that are bread for fishing bait by being fed a diet of horse manure (from youtube) I do not think they will leave if they are happy, the location outside is kind of hostile for a worm, and if they are not happy the farm will not work...

Thats screwed to the wall (its actually a couple of bits of old decking that I rescued from next door when she remodelled - but I do have a stash of old timber so I could knock something up if I needed too.

Hi Dips I would agree with Kristen's Advice check this web site for info he does amazing things with Chillies. Regards Alex

Remember if you are starting off a new bed, you are not supposed to take a crop for two years! If I'm not mistaken anyway.My parents had a big asparagus bed at a childhood house. I went by a few years ago to find the asparagus still there and in full growth. There must have been about 50 of...

Here removing the side shoots is optional on cordons. Same yield but smaller tomatoes if shoots left on - bigger tomatoes but less if they are pinched. I very rarely pinch shoots on cordon tomatoes and it does not matter, just get a big bushy thing. But that is here in a different place, lots of...

best post Ramshackle, I am off to do it - now! ----------------------------->>>>>>>>(looks at moth in a worried Checkhovian way)

Planted mine yesterday,just got them watered in and in then it poured done,As long as you have some green leave showing out of the hole your plant will be O,K.

Just ordered some Chinese greens as well. And some of that hotmix salad mix.

I have tied the worst affected branches to the highest point on the main trunk today which has helped a lot, so hopefully things will be OK, thanks for the tips

Maybe grow him a beer garden. He is a man after all!

I use water-pipe hoops, and scaffolder's debris netting. Height is determined by width of the roll, and width of the bed My beds are 4' wide, the roll is 3M wide, so that's(3 metres - 4 feet) / 2 in feet =which Mr Google says is "2 feet 11 1/16 inches"In case of interest there are some...

Took 8 of them to eat tonight, left a few to seed up. Only had one packet of seed, could always use more.

CongratUlations on your harvest, Bex

I just got some off ebay, they came 2 days later. Out of 20 I got 16 that germinated and looking great