Edible Gardening

Hi again. I just noticed that mine too are showing flower. Much earlier than normal, and I'm wondering, could it be the recent hot weather ?Cheers...freddy.

I think it might be that too; I have a pumpkin that I've started off inside near the windowsill. It's been fine but after these last few hot, sunny days the leaves are going lighter colours and don't look so happy (especially the young leaves).

I'm very surprised that you have frost damage so far south. My climbing french beans which are possibly more tender than runners have been outside for about three weeks. When I plant them I use plastic lemonade bottles with the bases cut off as mini cloches and I've just removed these today and...

Bearing in mind the plants are on a window sill, Im wondering if it could be scorch, the sun is pretty strong through glass at this time of the year.

It sounds like you have autumn fruiting canes. I cut my old stems right down in March as they fruit on new growth.Mine are now 2foot tall and growing like mad and i get loads of fruit from the new growth from August onwards.

. Hi I'm not a big fan of All YR caulis, they taste of rusty nails to me, there are much better varieties out there! Try any of the so called Australian varieties for an autumn crop, now is the time to sow them, if sown any earlier they do not do! And as for overwintering caulis, once I...

That's a good point about the snow, we have only just moved in so didn't have the garden when it was snowing, i didn't even consider it. Also i had to pull out a couple of trees that had self seeded from next to the roots of the rosemary so i thought that wouldn't of helped to much either. The...

If they wilt then recover then maybe you should not worry - it has been exceptionally hot.

Yes I would pot them on now. They only need water at the moment.

thanks - I tried washing up liquid and it didnt seem to be working :-( maybe I just needed to stick with it for a bit longer...anyway, the fruit tree spray has defo done the job! Almost all gone already!

Thanks John. The leaves look ok further up the plant.

Thank you I went down to the allotment at the weekend at after a week they are fatanstic thank you for your advice

I've brought it inside & will watch it this week. I am hopefully off to the garden centre at the weekend so may buy another one. Thanks for all your advice.

If you are growing spuds again this year then I would be ruthless and pull up and destroy any volunteers. Blight spores overwinter on volunteer spuds and will infect nearby crops. Also I've found that vounteers hardly produce anything wortwhile so I get rid of any as soon as I see them.

I've had crowns in my plot for three years now. Half of them have died, I get three spears per plant. They taste absolutely brilliant, this may be due, in part, to their scarcity. I'm on sandy alkali soil. Any pointers?

My peppers are recovering now - they'd wanted a drink. Thanks :thmb:

My larger tomato plants are like that too. Glad to know it's nothing too catastrophic :thumb:

I have a tumbling tom in a 16 '' basket, it is doing well :thumb:

Think of the size of the plant and the amount of produce, consider the amount of root that it needs to support this high production rate. Need I say more?

If it is blight, and it doesnt sound like it is, dont reuse the compost surrounding, get rid of it, or you'll have the same problem, but it doesnt sound like blight. Good luck.