Edible Gardening

me too, i guess u are an experienced exhibitor?

Stem produces the potatoess Potatoes that grow on the surface turn green, so increasing the soil depth helpsas has been said.Earth up and cover the leaves is frost is forecast, as that will kill the tops of the plant and set it backI earth up until I can't get any more soil banked up. For...

Good mix of both types were flowering so it must have been the conditions that set them off even though I thought I'd kept them pretty moist! We did have a massive downour after several weeks of no rain so I think it was that that sparked it off.Have to say they're very tasty though

not flowered yet, just lots of lush green leaves ( if thats the correct term )

Having been a regular visitor to one near Shepton Mallet I was thrilled to find one in Bridport. Only small trees so far but the notice said, turn up at 10am on the second sunday of each month to help out with weeding, digging etc. Will go along this sunday, gotta be a good chance to network...

There are so many wild carrots in some parts of the UK that you could "undo" a few thousand years of selective breeding in a season & end up with a tiny thin root again. The wild parsnip has a similar, not worth bothering about root, but someone did manage to breed a decent size root from them...

Can't see much wrong with storing fruit/veg and it's nothing new. I'm eating last years carrots, stored in a bucket of damp sand and my onions are on a shelf in the shed, picked and dried last September. My Dad grew potatoes commercially and we used to make a big clamp, maybe 100 tons that would...

Steves got the right idea, pot em up & put em outside the house for 50p I got loads of rogue ones coming up. They survive the human digestive tract and so are a common weed in sewage processing plants, along with Marijuanna, although I don't know why people eat those seeds :DOH:Must be Sheals...

Crushed and dried garlic and onion keeps cats off my flowerbeds nicely, and I save eggshells to crumble roughly and sprinkle around the allotment. Slugs and snails can't get across them but you do need to get through quite a lot of eggs.

Hehehe - that's the blighter!

Slug pellets are the only thing I find that works. The trouble with compost heaps is that there will be loads of slugs there so it will be difficult to protect it. I agree with Madahlia it's too early for pumpkins to be out on their own on a night, they just sit in the ground all day and sulk,...

Yes, if you put a deep barrier between the two. Raspberries spread like you wouldn't believe!

I lost mine to whitefly last year, trying again this year in our Polytunnel instead of the greenhouse. Steve...

It's frost bite!

Your potatoes aren't badly burnt, they will soon recover

Hi Liz, Not tried that yet, got to be worth a go, didn't like Broad Beans till my Sis did something similar to them, just planted a load out on the strength of that. Been sorting out the pill box in preparation this evening, ran out of light, but I recon 2 days work to get it mouse/rat...

Mine was flowering too, so a friend of mine who is more experienced than me just pulled it out from the base, hasn't flowered since.

Pellets are the usual way, trouble is, the little black slugs that nibble the tubers are burrowing ones, don't think the pellets would help there. I grew some spuds under 6 inches of wood chippings last year & did get a fair bit of slug damage, but it also protected the spuds from the awfull...

Well I dont think its virus, main reason, I have had a yellow spot form on one of my plants in the last day or so. As I remember, cucumber mosaic virus, from growing marrows, the leaves are distorted, these are not.I've only ever grown pumpkin once before and cant remember if they had any...

Runner beans are about the most productive veg you can grow. Now is the time to sow them - start them in pots inside If you want to grow any brassicas you need some proper insect netting like what I use: Agralan Enviromesh, Insect Netting