Edible Gardening

Good luck,mine are 6 inches above the earth and I have about 8 pots

Feed me: feed me, now! (Will you cook it for me too, loli?)

Mine are all flopped over now, I pulled them up yesterday and laid them on the soil to dry out and harden up for storage. In a week I'll lay them on some netting so the air can get round them.

I'd go with that too, when the tops have died back Oh, its officially a fruit in America now.

Runner beans? Don't talk to me about runner beans!To say I had a disaster with my beans this year is an understatement. A combination of drought, and duff seeds. I've probably picked 3 meals off the French beans, and the runners? Are slowly starting to grow up the pols, just starting to wind...

Thanks guys they are in a polly tunnel so it is a bit humid in there at the min might get a bit more air flow in there

Cheers GG,Bridgwater are lovely, sort of buttery, French ones are Blau Hide I think, some saved seed from a few years back, also lovely. Not too keen on Runners, grew them because I had some seed & can't resist planting things

Unlike 2011 and 2012, this year we have actually had a summer. If you've been feeding and watering your bluebs as you say you have, then just add warmth and sunshine and you have everything you need for excellent growth rate

Well done Alan!

I reckon it will break up if you tread it just as its drying after a good downpour?Might be best left open for the winter to have a crack at it, but otherwise how about a green manure over winter? Something with fibrous roots is suppose to break up clay I think (from memory) and Field Beans...

Shimsham has posted this question in the Tomato Growing 2013 thread.

In my opinion you need to do it now, making Nettle tea will take too long.Reason for not doing it later is Nitrogen will stimulate soft growth, and you want the plant to have time to harden that growth up before the winter.

They are light sussex,pure white is white sussex x

Chickens? Do they need to overwinter indoors? Ours wander the garden Summer or Winter, Rain or Shine ...I would have thought they would have wrecked any plants in a confined area - scrabbling about. Mine do!

Yes, it's true that some bees get the nectar by boring a hole in the back of the flower. This will usually result in that flower not producing beans at all. The problem of baby beans dropping off is a different matter.

Jalapeño I taste my jalapeño a month ago and they just tasted green with no heat,while moving them today I knocked two off the plant well I had to give one a taste and wow nearly blew my head off, my Misses tasted it as well and could take the heat. I had the rest with my pasta and for my first...

After a bit more research I rather think it's something called a hornworm; the damage does look like images I've found on Google.The websites below might be useful for anyone with a similar problem. They - the critters! - are a bloomin' nuisance, but there doesn't seem to be a ready way of...

Mine is 2 metre and as you say as soon as the butter flies are done I will be redoing it all with just bird protection in mind. Not too worried about the snow as we don't seem to get much if any and that tends to be in march not sure if my sprouting broccoli will be done by then not grown it...

Mark, sorry but they are too far behind to produce anything this year. Really they would need to have some flowers and a small fruit forming to stand any chance of growing and ripening before it gets too cold. Most of us sow them in March/April and plant them out in May/June - at least you have...

Thanks the photo is just a portion if it i have around 50 toms growing in it its in a potatoe grow bag with 6inch of woodchip mulch and a layer of chicken manure pellets for feedSent from my iPhone using Tapatalk