Edible Gardening

Living in the South of Italy,fruit trees are in abundance,but unfortunatley not in my garden. Who ever planned this one thought pine trees were better!! I do not agree. They are messy and poison the ground. Earlier this year we bought some fruit ,plum,lemon,orange,pear,cherry,and one by one they...

Hi Jimmybob, if your chillies are sitting on the windowsill in full sunlight the flowers are frying. That's why they're just dropping off. Move the chillies out of direct sun for a few days, give them a daily spray with water if you can, and I think you'll see the chillies forming. You don't...

Alice is right, apache's dont get too big, i didnt grow any this year, but had lots of smaller chili's last year, very tatsy.

I've used it the last few years also.I have no problems with it, I always wash the fruit before eating if I've sprayed, but never bother if I havn't, so its probably better for me to spray.:DSeriously, it does look nasty and it pongs a bit but I'm still alive.

My early spuds have been very variable, the first few plants were in containers and were very good, lots of nice big tubers. Now we are digging up the two rows I planted in the ground and they are not such a good yield, you do need to water spuds a lot in this dry weather.

Thanks from me also. I have my first raspberry cane this year and it looks more like a shrub than the 'canes' I remember from my granddad's allotment.

Hey, Robert, when were you promoted to the boss of the town :hehe:

Smashing, i'm glad for you. Its a good feeling is it not ?

I can see blossom end rot in the pics, but after looking up both ferline and legend I cant see anything that looks like that. The tom on the right in each pic looks normal to me, but only for something like marmande that grows that strange shape and seems to have double flowers.

Stop feeding the tomatoes, wait until they start flowering before feeding again. Don`t overwater them either. It doesn`t need to be daily just yet. The peppers look fine.:gnthb:

Those beans look just about right to me! Just wash them well under the tap and they'll be fine.We must swallow a ton of dodgy chemicals in what we eat every day - it don't bear thinking about!

A couple of my veggie books state that peas and beans don't do well next to onion/garlic/chives etc, and you should plant them apart. I don't know why though...

I think I'm doing things that people wouldn't normally do and it's my first time growing a pumpkin. Mine is in a pot inside; not ideal but I have no garden! I made a mini mound in the pot and the main stem is "protected" by electrician's tape and is tied to a cane, because it had an accident....

Thanks very much. I'll leave them how they are then.

It's not too late for this year 1eyedjack. I would take the best of them and SOAK them, and keep them pretty wet. You might salvage something.

thanks for all help willleave with using what other people give me for this year. was given nearly 2kg in weight and have successfully made rhubarb jam and it has gone down well, so fee will be making this in the future.

Ziggy - you are a hoot!

Hello,Has anyone moved a goosgog before? We are going to sort out the garden to make way for chickens and it's in the wrong place. Could I plant it against a fence and just prune it on the fence-side, or does it need to bush all over? Thanks, Liz

Dig it up before the first frost, train it up the bannister & keep picking till you put it back out in the spring, might need some grow blubs & a machette :lollol:

Glad to hear that Tuppence. My first welsh beans will be ready tommorow. Sister has sneakily replaced half of them with runners, she thought I wouldn't spot the different flowers.