Edible Gardening

My bet would be that they rot or slugs/insects find their way in.If you decide to pick now I should think they will taste OK.There is still time for more to grow and take over, so if you pick these now others will take over - pumpkins can only support two or three fruit per plant anyway

Its sounds more like snake oil to me, but I'm willing to be proved wrong.

You need to hand pollinate them in this cold wet weather.

If they are indoor it might just be that they tend to produce a first flush, and then stall, and then resume for the rest of the season. Advice is to remove the first half-dozen, or so, baby fruits to prevent getting the "stall" stage. (I think the plant thinks "I've reproduced" and gives up,...

"lurking in the foilage"They've grown since you took the photo, I can see them from here :hehe:

I reckon I've lost more seeds due to over cooking than anything else!

Do you have a sowing plan, or anything similar, [that you could share] Lovage?

JohnThanks for your views. My photo doesn't show it but the nibbling extends down into the core of the plant so I don't think it was done by birds. They tend to shred everything visible; at least, the pigeons round here do!Slugs are certainly a possibility and come to think of it,...

Taste is what its all about flinty. Nice to see a success story robert

By the way, if you just want your own apples, you can strike cuttings from named varieties and grow them on their own roots. The main reason for rootstocks is to control the size of the tree.

Here is a tip to get your apple trees cropping evenly every year. As they finish flowering next year, pinch off the flowers on every other spur. Do it every year and you will get steady crops every year. By the way, you will also get bigger apples so you will not lose much interms of crop weight/

Brilliant and really helpful answers thank you. I've grown a few veggies before - runner beans, the odd potato and carrot (very odd since neither was too keen on the ultra stony ground we had previously!), cucumbers and tomatoes - OK, OK, I know tomatoes are a fruit, but you get my point. ...

So is jerusalem artichoke, and a darn site less useful as well.

I wasn't going to let on, but mine are that size too. The "plant out in May/June" hasn't quite happened yet!

Thanks Kristen I just could not remember these details I am now subscribed:gnthb: Seems to be clear in my area at the moment robert

Thanks for that.

Let the air get to them somewhere cool and dark so their skins dry out and harden. An old farmer once told me that you should lay out a bed of straw, then put a layer of spuds on it, then another layer of straw, then spuds again and so on. Needs to be somewhere cool, dark and dry though so...

yep these are oudoors . my toms are about 10 foot away is it likely to spread? ive been growing toms in the same spot for 5 years with no probs ,have not got room for crop rotation

I got my Elephant Garlic from the same place as Kandy, except I bought them as eaters rather than the more expensive seed bulbs. A couple of them I split up and planted, so far they have been rust free, must have got lucky for once.

Thats a real puzzle Brian - it would be a shame to give up though, maybe next year grow just a couple of toms and use the extra space for the stuff Kristen said in post #2.