Edible Gardening

I've just put around a kilo of chopped scapes into my freezer, and have been eating them for almost 2 weeks now, which seemed rather late to me as I was cutting them around the end of May last year although this thread was started towards the end of July last year.They've always been used...

delicious looking crop victoriaenjoy them!loopy

Why not make your area at the bottom of the garden into raised beds, that way you get a deeper plot, and (in theory) more chance of better yields? Half sink the sleepers in the ground of whatever, and you can top it up with either growbags, compost, manure or whatever, and dig it in.

Thanks Scrungee, but my shed does not have any power... Steve...

Aye, use slug traps. Nematodes may be worth a look too, though they may work out expensive.

thats intersting, to use the bolted onions first as I didn't realise that they didn't store well. I learn something new everyday.

when the leaves flop over with them both. My onions are ready now, they are japanese so i planted them in Oct/Nov last year. So what I should do is dig them up carefully and leave them on top of the soil for the skins to form and dry for about two weeks then store them in net bags in the garage....

They will come along mick, just need some patience. Usually it's the other way round as pete and dai say.

I as John ,have noticed before that leaves sometimes curl when they get that first feed . Maybe coincedence ?? Dave

Leave them alone and they'll be fine. I've grown femspot several times. The plant will shed (they'll yellow and die) any embryonic cucs it can't support and the others will develop in due course. If you feed and water you probably end up with more cucs than you can use. I nip out side shoots...

Melons need pollinating so its best to do it with a small brush around mid day.:WINK1:

They have been in the ground since Oct / Nov

No, it's not, tho' I think spuds might have to wait till august, ready for Christmas! Lots of salad veg, turnips, orak, look at this website. Great Vegetable Seeds from The Real Seed CatalogueThere's lots of info about what to sow when. Sorry, the site inspires me.Also, just found...

I will certainly need some help! But not for a while - Thanks anyway.

We sometimes forget what lack of light and warmth can do. Anyone with Gilbert White's "Natural History of Selbourne" can read up about a terrible summer where the sun didn't shine, the crops failed and the whole country stank. They didn't know what was causing it at the time, but he had...

Thanks so much, guys :D So just remove the badly effected leaves, keep doing what I'm doing and....stop panicking.

I read an article some time back which stated that a good way of increasing cordon tomato yield - in areas where the growing season is short - is to allow just one side shoot to develop into a second leader. Pinch out all side shoots except the one immediately below the first flower truss. This...

I've not grown Cucumbers before as i've always considered it the Devils own vegetable along with Brussel Sprouts. But Atticus L sent me some seeds so i'm giving it a go. This thread has been usefull to me, as I hadn't a clue about cultivation

They won't rot jenn, if anything they will thrive in all this rain

Looks great! I am insanely jealous and this close to rushing out and stomping all over my beds in a fit of hissyness!! :-))