Edible Gardening

Mine are at the same stage - 1st time growing them. Some groups are stronger than others - if I had to choose between bundles of parsnips that would be easy!!

Last year I put mine in a raised bed with a mix of clay soil from the garden and compost. They did very well, and we had a bumper crop. They were not too wet nor dry, and I just watered them when the soil looked particularly dry. This year I am trying hanging baskets with nothing special in...

"can't tell with the raspberry as I've got to wait for the new canes (?) to grow from the roots first"If they are Summer fruiting variety you should cut new canes down to about 6" when they are planted. You won't get any fruit this year, but "suckers" will come from the roots and they will...

Raspberries succumb to virus, over time. If you are going to replant the, my advice would be to replace the soil at that time too, and get certified virus free plants.

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very useful info - thanks Kristen!

You've still got plenty of time to start another batch of F1 cucumbers - mine have only just germinated and I reckon its slightly early days yet - aim to get them into the greenhouse in mid to late May (depending on where yoy are, last frost date and how sunny your greenhouse position is).

My Tumbling Toms Loved the Rain Caj :D

Looks like it could have some genes from this strange variety, Vicky.:D

I planted 20 very well developed crowns last year: did all the right things (trench, ridge, spread roots etc). Not a sausage. All rotted or were eaten by some evil predator. Delight in your achievement and enjoy a few of the first fruits, but don't stress them too much in the first year.

Well done! I have grown on some chives from Waitrose and some parsley from Sainsburys.

Thanks kristen. Ile do the same.

hi capney and adam we love them,and you can allways freeze them,ready to start some more going for a later crop

" So I can start the next lot of seeds off inside"I have two propagators for seeds, they take 7 x 1/4 sized seed trays each, and I usually plant two types of seeds per tray - I'm usually only looking for 5 - 20 plants of each type.15-Feb is my first sowing - Aubergine, Toms, Summer cabbage &...

Hi FFFlynn, If you have any to spare, hair is very good. I cut my husband and two sons' hair and used that around the plants I wanted to protect. It worked a treat for me. Good luck. Ellie

"I also have the more specialist "RHS fruit and vegetable gardening"I'll have to look out for that, a combined RHS book sounds like a bargain! I have the separate volumes"Growing vegetables" and "Growing Fruit" (and a few others, bought in a rash moment of weakness, of course!)

Well, my initial thought is NO DON'T DO THAT. But of course the real world isn't like that ...I read a book which talked about crop rotation and put forwards a viewpoint of growing the SAME crop in the SAME place EVERY year UNTIL you had a problem, then move it to a different patch - that way...

I wouldn't recommend it as a way of actually growing lots of spuds.But then I've never tried it from early in the season, only about july time.Would be interesting perhaps to cut some of the shoots off of a potato and root them up in pots, planting out in perhaps May, and see what you get.

Hi Beanie I have found that splitting plants from other healthy ones is infallible. Sowing seeds can be a bit hit and miss (I shouldn't say that as I sell artichoke seeds) so for my own use I take a healthy plant and cut off side shoots with roots in spring and plant it in well dug and...

Hmmm ... looks like Cucumber Mosaic Virus (which would be really bad :( ) or perhaps Verticillium Wilt (in which case I believe there should be brown streaks inside the plant stems) - I think the plant may be able to grow out of this, my book says to keep the plant at 75F for two weeks - perhaps...