Edible Gardening

I've not seen any maincrop spuds for sale in supermarkets around here yet. Estima may be a second early, but my farm shop only starts to sell current seasons spuds about nowish. That is apart from those usual earlies.Those sold as baking spuds in supermarkets are still last years.

Nice onions Robert, spell of hot sunshine is what you need to ripen them off.I grew some from sets and some from seed this year.The sets were rubbish, I think they may have been diseased. My seed grown ones have done very well, a mild variety for eating raw.

Well I'll be away for 3 weeks so that might be too long to leave them... I may get a colleague to give them a water once a week. They've not needed much so far, I've tended to water quite well then leave them for a week as they seem to like drying out. I might even dry them green, I'll see how...

Although "Summer?" has been pretty wet and horrible, the late spring/early summer was fairly dry. My guess is that the two bolted plants got checked due to lack of water. Ours, Gladiator, are doing unusually well this year, I've had to remove the enviromesh as they were pushing it up and I may...

Got my mind boggling what do you use each one for ......especially the orange one Thanks Di

"I always grow mine in containers."What size containers do you use?

Hi have been busy so only maanaged to get a look at my lettuce the other day and they wer coverd in littlt white flies and larva , totally destroying them , any ideas how to get rid of any remaing flies ( have thrown lettuce ) B

"I better put the toilet rolls in the fridge then.":hehe:You're going to make a First Class Curry then, eh? !!

Interesting that you smash 'em up. last year I dried mine whole, and then crumbled them when ready to use - thinking that I might be keeping more flavour "in".But, as I'm sure you remember, they kinda re-hydrated during the winter and needed to be re-dried a couple of times.

Thank you to you both, it is in a pot, presumably compost, it is well watered as it always rains here.I was going to feed it with plant food but then i didnt want to use miracle gro because well, i want to eat the blueberries and didnt know whether i could use that? Any ideas? xx

You can sow now (well, maybe September) and plant in a greenhouse for a late Autumn / Winter crop.I sow mine successionally, but usually the Spring ones battle on. Some have bolted, I cut the flowering spire off and they are still cropping, although I don't think they are as succulent as the...

I`ll bring the sauce.....

Time will tell pete, I never get very good results with early pumpkins, they just seem to sit in the ground and sulk. Mine have only just set and they are about tennis ball sized, with a bit of luck I'll get some decent ones by Oct.

Not planting potatoes in the soil for several years does not help in the prevention of blight, neither is there any need for soil sterilisation. The blight needs living tissue to survive from year to year. this means that you can compost potato leaves and it will not pass on the disease, the...

thanks lads as usual brilliant advice in answer to which variety iv'e eaten all the nantes but still have 5 rows of autumn gold2 and there huge

that great help dave thanks, with regards to the funnel, it is a long black pipe, perforated, so it feeds everything from top plants to bottom, works extremly well. i shall take ure advide and wait till the wither, as i quite like the look of the big green leaves hanging over my barrel, thanks again

Thank you very much for that. As for planting them in the ground that's my main problem, I'm not sure where they will be able to go because, as it's still a relatively new garden, we haven't actually got anywhere they can go at the minute - I'm guessing they'll need quite a bit of space? At...

Years ago we grew peanuts in our greenhouse. We didn't really know what to do but grew them in large pots, watered them when we watered the tomatoes and they grew with no trouble at all. Not much crop for the space used but it was fun just to say we had grown them :thmb:

This site should answer all your chilli questions. And the chilli growing competition is great fun. Hope it goes ahead this year and you all join in.

"I have two plants together would it be okay to polinate female flowers from one with males from the other?"Absolutely (assuming they are the same variety - even if not probably OK, but might "have issues")