Edible Gardening

Gutting isn't it? Blight got my toms, frost got my potatoes and blackfly got my broadbeans. Think next year is time chemical warfare!

Thanks for that advice, had not even though of bug attack from ground level, was more thinking of the shade, pollen and dropping debris issues more that bug attack. I know the manhole rings are not exactly enviromentally friendly, but I can buy a length of pipe, styll saw it into sections or...

I grow my own salads and veg and have been eating them for months with plenty in the freezer for winter use. I'm sure it saves considerable money but I've never worked it out. As the others say, it's about a lot more than money. I love growing my veg and knowing what I'm eating.

A lot of the time this is correct Peter, with all peppers grown for commercial purpose... unless they are grown in isolation to cut out cross pollination. Then you would have to question wether the " original " seeds were true to type. I try to grow a lot of my plants to get true to type seeds,...

I made some green tomato chutney last year- was deelish and I'll probably do the same this year, so many greenies.

Lol, cheers Axl.

Hi JW, All of the above could happen, but not all at once.:thmb: I'm with Iggyboy on this one & not just because he sounds like Ziggy :hehe: I've overwintered capsicums sucessfully before & had fruits set in the spring, but i've not pruned before, going to follow Igs advice this year.:gnthb:

The female flower died just before it bloomed :cry:oh well. Looks like no pumpkin for me since all the other female flowers are smaller and seem to be dying off aswell. Maybe another year.

Cheers for that Dave, could be the way to go. Not got around to building that solar drier that I was on about earlier. Wish I'd never dismantled the first one, mind you, that used to caramelise things when it got over 45c.

Whoa, class cabbage there Dave. Well done Sargent.

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Thanks Shiney for the reassurance! I got myself to lift the pot to allow the (hrrr) Woodlice and (double hrrr) Sluglets to run away but met another obstacle. Mr Selleri put his foot down and declared that we are _not_ having any more houseplants. (For goodness sake, what are the horisontal areas...

Liz; once you've bought some then next year you can keep a few back for planting again etc etc (just like Ziggy did!) - in the long run it won't cost too much :thumb:

.Either one or more rats have devastated two rows of baby beets I was about to harvest.They also done my neighbours plot as well, only the roots taken, left the tops.Anyway, retribution is on it's way, another plot holder, a pro pest controller has put down some poison,under cover of...

Ooh... how interesting! I didn't know beans were tuberous.

Thats the attitude Dennis :thumb:

Cheers Melinda, Have bookmarked that for next year. Have you brought your aubergines in now ?

"Frankentomato! It looks like it's stitched together. " Got a little closer this morning and it does indeed look like its stitched!

We've a few mini citrus that spent last (horrible) winter in the unheated, bubble wrapped, lean-to GH and they survived just fine.

me too...been the year for bear beating courgettes