Edible Gardening

Ive read that all leaves should be cut after plant has fruited,i,m trying that this year Farmers used to set fire to the straw after fruiting which probably bears this out. The plants like ablast of cold winter air so leave them out over winter but dont let them get waterlogged or dry out hope...

Thanks for that looks good.....

Hi F-S, I'm sure you will enjoy it. Get used to tasty fresh veg like this for a month or two and going back to the shop stuff will be a horrible comedown.

I reckon starting one a month would give you continuity - the carrots in the pot should provide a month's harvest from first one being ready to the last one starting to go woody.But there again, it depends how many you eat in a month - if you can eat twice as many as have germinated then start...

Hi all, I have around 5 spinach seedlings sprouted up and are around 3-4 inches long and have just started to sprout there 3rd leaf, when i say leaf i say this loosly, looks like blades of grass. When should i put them into there individual pots. I was thinking of a 5l pot per plant is this...

Lokking nice and healthy now Bob, start picking the first few when they are small otherwise you end up with loads maturing at the same time.

Thats true Flinty. I eat those ones first, they will not store.Teressa, onions that have bolted will have a very thickened stem which never seems to dry out, segregate these ones and scoff them first.

I've leafed through my horticulture book, and can't find the bit about certain flowers affecting fruit set. Maybe I'd remembered it wrong or maybe i read it somewhere else. I did find a couple of interesting bits that may be relevant to this thread though, if only for interest rather practical...

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That is a rip off, we can buy a 4 stone (25 kg) bag of spuds at our farm shop for about that price.

I put the yeast in first, then the flour ... and finally the water :D

thanks for your replies guys, i'm very new to this gardening stuff and just trying to fumble my way through and it looks like i've got a lot to learn about soil ph and pests, so thanks again for your advice but on the upside my broccoli seems to have made a miraculos recovery and i haven't...

At the end of last season I cut down the whole vine and hung it upside down in the garage, and we picked Tomatoes off it for a month or two after that. Bit early to be contemplating that just yet, I need some sunshine before then!

Freedom Spark:Nothing special re pollination but it's difficult to water the base only so they have been showered and fed fairly regularly with a medium rose watering can. We've also had a fair number of bumble bees in the greenhouse and they are brilliant pollinators. Other than that...

Thanks everyone, seems I need to water a bit more consistently by the sounds of it. I'll continue to use the flesh, sounds like the poor watering isn't doing the tomatoes any harm apart from cosmetic. I'm using them right off the vine anyway, so no storage issues. Cheers! :gnthb:

They dont like being moved, mine took ages to grow after being moved but the ones that i left grew really quickly. Leave the plants untill four proper size leaves have formed and they will do better. When you move them expect them to wilt over for about a week or so. Keep them netted too or the...

I did not know that Pam many thanks for the tip robert

Wild raspberries are very tasty if small, but the plants are almost as bad as Bindweed or ground elder for spreading. We have been trying to eradicate then from part of our garden for the last 14 years without total success. They really do spread far and wide by underground running woody roots....

thoughts of achef. New pots. should always be started in boiling water and lots of it. If you put spuds into to smaller ammount of water you may as well be starting them in cold water as they take too long to return to the boil they should come back to the boil asap. this goes for all veg...

Hi poohpouri, its not a stupid question at all.Rooster are an early main crop, and as they are flowering you could start harvesting them now. Scoop away the soil from one plant to see how big the tubers are and if big enough now then dig up as many as you need, the others will keep growing....