Edible Gardening

Thank you Pete - everything I wanted/needed to know in a nutshell. Going on what's there at the moment, if all the flowers were to develop into fruit, I'd have - oh! about ... 7!! (It's a start! )

No - I stand 'em on an old 3' 6" high fold-up garden table - by the time the slugs have smelled the lettuce, made their way to the table, crawled up the 'x' shaped legs, worked their way across the underside of the table-top, hauled themselves over the edge, crossed the table, negotiated the...

As it's way too early for elephant garlic even to be harvested now, let alone be prepared for planting, I suspect the clove(s) may have come from another part of the World or has been kept in prolonged, controlled storage. Perhaps you could ask the seller just how they they Elephant Garlic...

The first lot of flowers don't always get pollinated. It won't be too long before they set and then the plants will start producing in abundance. This weather, at the moment, is what they really like - warm and wet. They are not keen on hot and dry.

Not Roger the Gorilla!!!! He was Gerald the Gorilla's sex mad brother.

...are struggling a bit. We've just started picking our Raspberries and its shaping up to be our best year yet for them, they're big, full of flavour and there's lots of them - yummy However our Strawberries that were fantastic last year are struggling, I've a feeling its just too damp,...

No I didn't, I also put in the Blight thread that Steve r posted. Can't be anything else.

I agree, nothing wrong with those, although a bit small. I seem to recall reading somewhere that one should only plant the outer(larger) cloves. This apparently produces larger bulbs Cheers...Freddy

What rootstock are these dwarf trees supposed to be grafted onto?

No problem, we all do it.Yup, that'll do it. Not too bad now that the river is back where the river should be, Cockermouth has had some minor flooding with a few homes getting wet again. Not very nice really when most people are just getting back to normal after the serious 2009...

:patpat: indeed! You'll need to cross your fingers that they have enough "summer" growing time to make some cobs though, but nothing tastes so significantly better than the Supermarkets than home grown corn (nearly spelt that wrongly!!)

MrJ - for what it's worth, stick 'mushroom spores and asthma' into Google where there are 125,000 'results' for this type of question from UK pages alone! I've had a go at growing mushrooms in the past and I'm much too lazy to bother with all that 'faffing' about keeping newspaper damp, making...

It must have es-scaped from the veg plot

any one else got any ideas or advice for me

Yes drainage holes...regular watering is usually the norm but the rain has at least done me a bit of a favour

Had the few Broad Beans that survived the neglect for lunch today,soooo tender few pods left might just get one more meal.

Cheers, I'll have a look! I know they're not the easiest, but I would like to hope it wasn't me hastening their demise...

Thanks Steve will have a go

I've got loads of both types (plus a Fenn trap from when we had a stoat problem).

since the flavour is quite pungent they are best sliced andmixed for example in a fresh salad. Also there is a recipy called "carpaccio" where it would fit quite well. It is very thin sliced raw beef seseasoned with parmesan shavings, lemon oil salt and pepper.