Edible Gardening

I regret buying 2 crowns of rhubarb last summer. I only really need one as I don't eat that much of the stuff. No I can't open the gate to the veg garden as it's always blocked up with giant rhubarb leaves.

Thanks everyone! Really helpful. I had no idea that the green stem thing was actually the leaf, or that they'd die back at this time of year- I was expecting the black seeds to fall off the top and some little leaves to poke out the top! I'll keep them in the pots and see how many come up next...

FC, one tip, keep the ground well watered, until the seedlings emerge

try living close to Sellafield lol

Zigs , you'm a genius

No worries If you're going to make a fizzy version, don't use the normal wine bottles, they'll explode. You'll need the Champagne/Cava bottles. Easy enough to blag from a pub/restaurant. Corks and wires available Here

Looks like a Common Spotted Orchid to me.

I'm not going to be too strict on myself so I'll go for potatoes and carrots then (maybe some turnips too!), thanks for the info.

Couple of weeks time GA

Well I still find 1 or 2 slugs 'n' snails in the greenhouse, but mostly they see the pot there & decide to pop over the wall into next door... :-) Sadly slug-away as pictured is actually of the blue-pellet-of-death variety, so not recommended for pets or small children (or large ones, come to...

Thank you Freddy, Will get the soil tested

come to ireland. the rhubarb is growing wild on rural roads. regards nijinski

Mr Loli comented on my carrots last year saying "they were too carroty".....which to be fair they were quite strong (early Nantes) but i think our taste buds aren't used to the proper taste of the veg....take a tomatoe for instance or a cabbage...they taste totally different to 'shop' bought...

Never done it, but often intended to: transplant the odd few left over / weedy leek plants at the end of the season into the ornamental part of the garden to clear the way for the next crop.

Thanks for the advice , well....took a chance and cleared out all the old canes and the tops of some of canes that were dead wood on top but a good growth below, and with all the weeds and grass gone, this hopefully will allow some air around the bottom of the canes. After clearing, we were...

You must be in despair, Ariadae. I have two squash seedlings still at the seed leaf stage. Might as well plant them out, nothing else I can do with them. I might be lucky. They are the remnants of a 6 cell tray in a heated propagator. The 4 that rotted got resown, still no joy. I don't...

Hello and welcome Do you have much space near sunny windows, or a balcony or anything? It would help if we knew how much room you have and how much light that space gets. Apart from those already mentioned, how about peppers and chillis, and various herbs. Think what is expensive to buy...

I'm growing these for the first time this year - about to plant out 3 plants in large pots as soon as we get another warm spell and train them up a trellis. Will this be ok? Do they need really big pots? Any other pointers? I was going to feed with organic tomato feed once fruits...

Just spoke to the company and sent them pics and they agreed to replace the 3 dead 'uns, no quibbles. So 'props to Van Meuwen', as the yout dem say.

Thank you Zigs The ground she is planted in is clay, but this year has been the first year where we have actually not had it waterlogged (although it has been in the past). We have dug in a lot of grit, soil improver, compost etc, and over the past years grown potatoes in it (was told that could...