Edible Gardening

Ailsa craig i found to produce loads of fruit with no taste a complete waste of time,

If you have any stables local ask them for manure. If they have a big pile dig right into it to get to the well rotted stuff. I normal get mine off a local chap, who has 3 or 4 piles at differing ages. The oldest pile is like compost and is great stuff. Unfortunately due to the current...

just looked ...well spotted thank you

Have used the Vitax branded ones, expect they will all come from the same maker ?They can last for 3 months or so, though do need careful handling as they can get quiet soft the older they become and the wetter you keep them.Placing them in one of these 24 cell trays helps keep them upright...

I did know about walnut trees trying to poison their surroundings. Also the leaves of oaks tend to make the ground sour when they rot.But in early 2020 I killed a dozen or so Rhododendron bushes which had grown man-hig. I then shredded them and scattered them around my whole garden. Probably...

Have compiled a list based on the taste thread, so thanks for the tip.Sungold seems very popular so that will be one to aim for.

Many thanks for your reply. The www has of different advice about xyz. I am concerned for rocco so I thought for the strawberry plants would be better higher up and it would be better if he did not wee on them

I'll take some pics in the summer, i grow fruit in the back garden.

Hi Snorky85, I sincerely hope it's not onion white rot? If it is? discard the onions and soil, thoroughly disinfect EVERYTHING associated and beware that it can remain in soil for 7 years plus. I have it here in London!

Rhubarb like good deep soil and plenty of water. They are hungry plants and require a good feed every year, mulch as well, well rotted manure is best, but a handful of general purpose fertiliser and a mulch of well rotted garden compost will work. I would remove the small plants you dont want...

I had to make that decision last year. It was really hard comparing them and the winner was.... None of themIn the end we went with a Mirabelle Plum ("Nancy") because it is a lot friendlier to eat and blooms nicer (at least in my opinion)

ThaThanks Im totally new to pollenating vegetables. When I had my veggie patch, with the smallholding we had, it was just a trailer full of chicken and horse manure with some peat and soil mixed in. I threw few bags of seeds randomly there, watered few weeks with garden hose every time I had...

Hi, Thanks for the comments! It is actually a historical account of how I went through the process of learning how to get that crystal clear water and beautiful plants that I so wanted. Its a story from rookie beginning to getting to a nice setup, my personal experience of when things go wrong...

Cos was the one I used to eat until I found the round lettuce, I've ordered all the year round and a Gustavs salad seed so I'll see how I go with those.

Hi, I use a mix of multipurpose compost and my garden soil (which is heavy clay) and some grit in my permanent containers. In the spring I mix some slow release fertiliser granules and rotted manure to the top part, sometimes also some blood&fish&bone if there's any left after the roses....

It was probably just a slug or snail on it @ricky101 Good looking leek though - what variety?

Ok, thank you all, will put them in a room with no heating and should be ok.

Thanks for advice.. I will take a risk when whethers better in planting in with my dwarffruit trees and Im also going to try plant some in a terracotta planter pyramid Ive created.. Im hoping to have different kinds of strawberries so i have some all seasons if at all possible... Hope it does

It all depends on how many flowers there are, if it's just a few I'd leave them.

One had a hole (slug maybe) which needed boring out otherwise completely solid.Sorry I just planted any old how, so I don't know which part of the sliced up seed tuber produced it. I dug up half a dozen roots to see us through Christmas and they were a bit variable, some had fewer tubers than...