Edible Gardening

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Glad yours is under control now Jack.The sulphur didn't work for me, so I've sprayed again with Bordeaux Mixture.

When they are completely yellow and have a spongey feel to them, if they are hard they will be slightly sour to eat. Try one when you think they are ripe, you will learn to judge as time goes on.

salsa for pizzas or pasta dishes,tuna tomato and black olives salad, tomato and mozzarella sandwiches, halved and filled with philadelphia cheese or other stuffing, or store in jars or in the freezer.

Hi Kandy, I've just found the Id thread about the millet. Go to Identification Area and it's........Two for Two by HBK on 14th August.

Yes, my other pear tree (not shown) is a conference. I can't remember which one that is and the ticket has blown off.

I normally grow Music (obtained from the Really Garlicy Co - available from September), Cristo, Germidour, Thermidrome (garden centres), Vigor (spring planting garlic from local gardening store) and Elephant Garlic ('Taylors' from garden centre), and most of them are re-planted saved cloves as I...

If, when you hold the apple and it comes away easily in your hand then it is ripe. Anything else and they are not ready.

ok thanks guys, shame the ID was to late to save most of my crop, but I've sprayed whats left with 100ml of full fat milk with half a level teaspoon of bicarb and made it up to one litre.Plant Potty.

How long should you dry them for? Mine are hanging in my carport...

I polinate the cucurbits by hand & give the sweetcorn a shake. oooohhhh Matron Spruce

Fidgetsmum, I used to grow at least half a dozen varieties but now only grow Polestar. They are a fairly heavy cropping variety, reasonably early flowering, able to withstand hot or wet conditions and all the punters say they love the flavour.

I am planting Charlotte potatoes for a client tomorrow, hopefully for a Xmas crop. They will be planted 1 per 10" pot, in well rotted manure. I will grow them outside until the weather starts to turn cold, then they will go in the greenhouse.

Hi It sound if you have pear scab , it probably effected the blossom so thats how early it starts and got into the fruit at the start of the spring (fungal disease) lives on the old leaves and the actual stems of the plant as you know already In the autumn clear away all the leaves around...

Hi Alex, I'd leave it to absorb the nutrients from the leaves back into the roots, but if it hasn't finished doing that when the frosts are near then cut it back & cover it with a pile of leaves or simliar. Because it was so mild up till the snow came last year, mine got taken by suprise & I...

Stingo see this thread where another of our members has a green pumpkin that looked more like a marrow to begin with:

i have found a couple of peppers (capsicums) in the pollytunnel with holes in them, upon opening them i have found a large brown catapiller type thing in the pepper, what is it and what can i do to stop it

Not heard this one before, I agree with pete. From memory years ago we grew turnips on my father's farm and couch was always a problem in every field. Can't remember the turnips making an iota of difference.

Hi Guys, I have some sprouting broccoli (white) about 300mm high and some have started to produce growth from the leaf stems. Not sure if this is a bad thing this early.

Some of the 'natural' products use fatty acids. These can affect the leaves and flowers. although not technically 'natural' a few drops of washing up liquid in one of those small plastic hand sprayers (holds about a pint) and topped up with water can be fairly effective. Take the plant...