Edible Gardening

It was I I posted about tesco la bonnette potatoes £400 a Kilo 'Exclusive' La Bonnotte potatoes worth £400 a bag to be sold at Tesco | Metro.co.uk I bought a couple of Kilo's Saturday but I did not like the shape of them so chucked them out :-) yeah right I think the story is all about...

Biltong I have found a Deli that imports it,, very expensive but a nice treat to myself a couple of times a year There is a lady visits the local pub from Rhodesia makes it at home for her hubby, and it is exactly the same as the ones bought (she brought some in for us to try mmmnnn ) I...

Take a look at the canes - those which are brown (and on which the leaves are dying or have died), will be those which fruited this year and these are the ones you need to cut back to about 2" above ground level. The rest - those with green stems - should be left alone, tie them to canes and...

Tomatoes in their natural environment are indeed (short lived) perennials, but to be honest, in this country its not worth trying to overwinter them. One of the reasons is, apart from the warmth requirments, the day length. In central or south America, where they originated the day length...

Thanks everyone for your help. The fruit is off a bush so it looks like it is a Japanese quince!

I planted my left over onion sets in seed trays this year and packed them quite close to each other and when the leaves withered away at the end of the summer they'd grown in to lovely little onions just short of the size of a golf ball :thumb:

I bought 1 of those plastic clip together cold frames :D,when I brought out my outdoor toms I stood them all inside, and then last winter stood all my outdoor plants in and that helped them through the winter.:WINK1:

My pleasure Caz, When you do prune them, stick the branches in the ground, they root very easily. Then you'll have more bushes.

Sorry I couldn't have been of more help BB, maybe someone else might have some ideas. Don't listen to Clare this evening though

Thanks :D , Guess there might still be a chance of it growing. I shall update if it does :D

I don't know this from experience, but I've read in many different sources that carrots hate rich soil, especially recently manured soil.I grew some turnips and radish in freshly manured soil. Both had plenty of top side growth but no bulbous roots.My money would be on the soil being too...

You can grow them on rye grains. You sterilise the rye in mason jars, in a pressure cooker for around 30min. Add the spores to a water solution and inject this into the rye. Leave in a humid place. Those plastic greenhouses, indoors work well..

Hi Trunky,I have already told Mr Kandy that when he prepares the next Squashs for cooking to save me some of the seeds so when I have dried them off I can send you some,but as I have said the label just said Butternut Squash but the fruit looks identical to the Big Dig ones we grew last...

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HiI have just purchased a dwarf stock apple and pear tree to grow in containers on my patio. They look as though they are at least 1 year old they have about 4-6 branches.My question, if anyone can help is: Should I prune them this winter or start from next winter 2012.Any help would be...

Hi Sue,i only have experience with dwarf apple...I grafted mine myself at college and had small and not pleasant fruit in the second full year of growth and then a year with no blossom and no fruit after repotting. Finally, this year (4th year since the graft) I have amazingly sweet and...

Sounds Good Most of our beans have given up now, a few pods left on the home plot.

I've bookmarked this as a plant to try it supposedly has very nice scented flowers in spring

Well done Sargent I'll unstick the thread now

That's an excellent deal Scrungee. I've looked at the catalogues of all the suppliers I could think of but I'd forgotten about Thompson and Morgan.