Edible Gardening

Thats so thoughtful and funny grannie Annie bless xxx

I love strawberries but found the strawberries I grew last year tasted awful. Then again I like my Strawberries really soft and a bit "off". Perhaps they're too fresh for me.

I'm trying "Emelia" this year, my first attempt at growing spinach so watch this space!

Yes will do. In theory they should do well

Earlier if growing for show/size. March is fine, sow seed in a John Innes type seed sowing compost, keep it damp NOT wet! I sow into seed trays then prick out at the "crook" stage into modules or individual pots, the choice is yours! Good luck

hello! Im growing similar veggies to you, most in raised beds thouth. Kirsten what a great idea with the buckets! I have to ask at my local Asda.

i tried carrots in containers once, when i dug them up they were all weird funky shapes...one looked like a creepy little man, legs & arms and all lol

I have a grapevine (Madeleine Sylvaner) that I've pruned into a t-shape, i.e. a main stem about 2 feet tall with two permanent arms around 6-8 feet long at that level. I have left on a couple of long new growths from the bottom, a couple going sideways from the top of the trunk and one from the...

Might try them in bog rolls then... ta chaps!

I'd treat it more like a hydroponic set up, as the nutrient will quickly run out in a shallow gutter. Make sure you feed regularly with the watering Otherwise, sounds great, it'll keep the strawberries from getting mucky too.

Or lay a few course of bricks in lieu of using a gravel board for that section of fence, so they can be cut and fitted around the trunk (leaving some room for future growth) using some that match the colour of the concrete gravel board, or even a combination of cut gravel boards with brick...

Thanks for the info shiney

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Thanks sal73 . You could well be right about pollination..I hadn't thought of that! Let's hope we have a better summer this year, with lots of buzzy things to do the necessary...

We had ours outside under perspex and they came out about three weeks earlier than otherwise.

Broad bean tops , Did you know they make a very tasty Veg, Just drop them into boiling salted water about 5 mins drain knob of butter think of all those vitamins !

My seeds have arrived The lemon chilli seeds state that they are slow to germinate and quite a warm soil, so they are a definite to sow early and indoors. I don't have a propagator, so I will just have to hope that the heat of the house will be enough. I am going to get some of the endive...

I bad! You need to put the wet paper towel and seeds in a zip bag - the baggie method. I also found that scraping a knife along the back of the seed helps germination (you can see the bump where the roots come out of the seed). I attach a pic of the roots 2 weeks in the airing cupboard.

you are most welcome

OK this year I will try both methods on my earlies, Must remember which is which, and I will continue from there I suppose both methods require similar work input, as one requires earthing up the other requires weeding Jack McH