Edible Gardening

Thanks will follow ur advice

I reckon I'd just dig it up now. Fill a good sized container with ericaceous compost and a couple of good trowels full of well rotted manure or chicken poo pellets, pop the bush in the middle, give it a really good watering, and put it somewhere where the wind won't get it. They are quite tough...

Hi Snowdrop! My wife uses poppy seeds in her baking and cooking. Now I know that growing the opium poppy is the right one to grow and isn't illegal to do so (T & M sell the seeds), I shall be growing them myself in future. There's a man on my allotment whose Vietnamese wife is always growng them...

If you want to sow onions indoors get some for spring sowing and sow them just after Christmas. You have missed the boat by a long way for autumn sown varieties. You can get some spring sown varieties that mature not much later than the autumn ones. I tend to sow all my spring sown onions...

Has anyone heard of Nematodes for wireworm? I don't know how successful they would be or if they even exist. Has anyone tried them for slugs for example? Do they work? I all my potato growing attemps have been ruined by wire worms and I'm getting sick of it. I reckon I must have a massive...

Summer was a bit late to be planting and I don't think you did it any favours by giving it a cut so late in the growing season. Blackcurrants are normally very easy to grow. If you take a cutting and shove it in the ground there's a very good chance of it rooting. In your case I'd leave it...

Yeah, they had a good shock because of cold weather and trying to reproduce again. They are actually perennials, so are peppers.

I suspect that we are very close to being able to lift things like Dahlias. Just this morning I looked at my neighbours beautiful Acer tree and noticed that over the last two days it has lost most of its leaves. That tells me that plants are packing up for the season and ready to go...

I have picked all mine and have them in the airing cupboard in a paper bag, I wanted to clear the greenhouse so i can get the staging into the new one.

Hi QuaedorTraditional advice was to add manure one year and then lime the next year, never both in the same year. I think they counteract each other if applied together and not in a good way.So if you're adding stable manure in a few weeks time, I wouldn't recommend adding either...

In the Meditteranean countrie you see squash/pumpkins on roof tops in the sun drying. I was told by a friend that they are better for diabetics after they have been kept, as this allows some of the natural sugars to break down

Hi Manteur, I originally bought some of the small stem tubers from Chilterns.If your interested I could sent you a few, but you'll need to keep them through the winter and plant next spring.PM me.

I've got an apricot tree that fruits very well. The fruits are ready early June (or thereabouts depending on the year). I find the only snag to this very productive fruit is that a full trees-worth comes ready all at once, and has to be dealt with there and then or they drop and/or rot. Could it...

The professionals spray Bramleys with some sort of lime solution when it is in leaf in order to counteract the bitter pit. It is a pain in the butt. It developed on a large tree of Spartan I used to have. It used to produce loads of top quality fruit and then bitter pit set in which affected...

Some people think that cucumbers and tomatoes dont do well in the same greenhouse. Tomatoes like it warm and a dryish atmosphere - keeps some of the fungal diseases at bay. cucumbers like it cooler and a moister atmosphere. i have to admit that often I have had years when the tomatoes have been...

Blight is a fungal disease. It thrives in warm damp weather

Hi all,I'm planning on putting two staked & wired fences across my allotment to split it into 3 (to help maintian proper crop rotation).I'd like to grow two fruit bushes along them. My question is what could i grow? The fences will be no more than 4ft high but about 10ft long. Would i...

"The French when they look down their noises at our food don't know what they are missing." I know what they could do with lol.

This is my first year of growing parsnips and I followed Daitheplants advice. I drove a stake into he ground about 12 inches deep to creat a shaft and filled with a very, very fine sand and sieved compost mix then sowed the seed on the top of that-and I have gotten some belters out of it. I...

I'd store them, like I'd store apples, in a cool, dry, dark place. Should be for several months.