Edible Gardening

Shobna...I love the hairy bits too lol :D

:lollol: What..!!! You mean you don't like them Hot then Sven...!!! :rotfl:

I grew 2 bags of "charlottes" this year and emptied the first bag this morning,what a waste of good compost they were !. 6 spuds the largest about a tennis ball down to marbles.I planted some others that had sprouted ,variety unknown, and tipped a bag out last week and there was loads in...

That's what I like to hear John, thankyou for answering my question.Hope you and yours are all well.

I would love to see a pic too, of the seeds.

lol I don't like spicy foods so no chilli!

Hi Liz, a Truss is a bunch of the yellow tomato flowers :thumb:

I know what you mean, Liz. Purple Milan is quite a strong flavoured turnip even if you pick 'em young, I find. Try it mashed with carrot and a bit of butter with your Sunday roast. Or perhaps try a different variety. 'Snowball', or 'Oasis'.

Well done Ciryluk. Aubergines are really tricky. I tried for years and got nothing but flowers. Last year I got 2 big whoppers but I'm not growing them anymore. All that space and work for 2 aubergines is not worth it. I think I just wanted to prove I could grow them. Enjoy your bumper crop and...

:lollol::lollol::hehe::flag::rotfl::rotfl: Bet he cant say woruld like Neil Oliver can either

Agreed, doesn't sound like blight. I've lost my outdoor toms to blight for the last two years, and I have the Bordeaux Mixture ready and waiting. If I get an incline that it's in my area, then I guess I'll have to apply it, but for now I'm holding off. My outdoor toms are actually cropping ! ...

Hi Shobhna, Make sure its fine netting as i've watched the small babbage whites circle above inch square netting, when they've seen a gap big enough, they close there wings & just drop straight thru. I look round the veg section in tescos, check the price of water cress & then go and pick it...

My kelvendon Wonder only grow about 3 feet high so I think maybe your peas have been wrongly packed.

Well, new leaves and buds continue to grow and I've had my first open flower today, hooray! The stem didn't heal totally up as I first imagined it would if it survived, but if it's happy enough to flower then it's certainly not ruined. The "pruning" didn't appear to do any harm either; if...

Not dumb questions at all :thumb:Don't bother wasting your time pulling off potato flowers Susanna - it hardly makes any difference at all. If you only have a few plants then maybe remove any fruit once the flowers set.Not every potato plant flowers, it varies from year to year and...

ziggy, I hope my ladybirds learn from yours :gnthb: We don't have to bother about freezing, salting, bottling etc. We sell all our spare produce for our charity. We have enough customers to sell more than £100 per week if I had the produce.

It depends what variety but the longer you leave them the bigger the tubers will get - I'd say you could leave them for another couple of weeks yet to maximise growth.

My cherry tomato plants are still flowering & only have fruit on the bottom trusses, whereas my large plants have finished flowering & have huge green fruits waiting to ripen, I thought it was still pretty early for all the flowers to have formed into fruit?

Judging from my strawberry plants, which dry, like, twice a week, I assume that they need a lot of water.

Thanks everyone Logi