Edible Gardening

Hi everyone, I've been experimenting a little this summer with growing bits in my back garden - spuds, peppers, tomatoes etc, some more successfully then others. Everything is coming to an end, and I'm looking for any edible produce that is suitable to start planting now? Everything will...

Thank you very much for your reply, has given me something to think about.

Hi Guys. My Plums are falling off the tree before they are fully ripe. i.e. There's a small patch on the back of them that the sun doesn't touch that is a little bitter when you eat it. Can I pick them and put them on a window sill 'till they ripen Quite happy to accept the double entendres...

Cheers chaps. Suppose I'd best look a bit harder. Mind you, I suppose I'm a bit closer to the pennine border now so that might hve something to do with it. John

32 in a 8X6 greenhouse! I suppose you don't know how many is to much until you try it If you are growing duplicates of the same variety I would just pull up the extras to give some space. You will run into trouble soon with Grey mould (Botrytis), tomatoes hate having their leaves touching each...

wtg johnny its good fun but wee tip don't put your chillies next to your toms and cucumber chillies are bad for white fly ceep smiling

Flying ants have now gone :gnthb: so I went out this afternoon and picked 15lb of runner beans. They are coming along so quickly that I am now picking at least 10lb every other day :yho:

There are complicated types of pruning grape vines, but I've always found the easiest to be the one that involves growing one or two main stems. You then cut all growth back to these stems in subsequent years, leaving one bud at the base, this grows in the spring and carries the flowers. ...

Thank you Alice! Our forecast is for rain all week but it's very muggy hot here also. So I'm thinking sunshine happen :(

Hi, pics 1&2 are from my beef plant and pics 3&4 are from I think Money maker.Thankyoudjrock

Well I would Sterile. Those fruits have to grow and mature before first frost. That could be in September here.

Thanks for the advice - that's kind of what I feared.I do want large fruit, that's the reason a grew Italian beefsteak tomatoes as you just can't get decent ones in the shops now (thanks EU rules).I'll go out today and separate the plants, and prune them back to a single stem, or two, per...

I take the cardboard apple boxes from Sainsburys with the fruit trays in them (those sheets of cardboard/paper that have the indentations in them for each apple). They only get thrown out so Sainsburys are happy for you to take them. So as not to be accused of discrimination :hehe: :- there...

Good point from pete - leave the male flower in the female to let insects continue transferring the pollen. Sometimes I've nipped open a female flower first thing in the morning to force things along.

Thanks John, will do. Brian :thumb:

Some of the leaves on some of my beans are turning yellow. I grew far too many plants initially, ran out of garden and stuck the remaining dozen or so in troughs and pots on a 'bung them in and see' basis. Mine (in the tubs) are turning yellow because I seldom remember to feed them.

Thank you everyone for this - great advice frm you all Logi

Hi Shiney, sounds like hoverflys, hold your finger up near one, if it hovers & has a look at your finger then yes. Very good for aphids, the larvae eat loads of em.

My PS Broccoli are both 2 foot tall and 6 inches tall! Some of the original sowing got removed - by birds, I assume. So I sowed some more. Looks like I shall have PSB for weeks! Yippeee!

They are only been in a couple of years.