Edible Gardening

Thanks Kristen :thmb:

Thanks again David. I shall take your advise on the next batch Im awaiting germination. robert

Its funny how we are all different. Its the other way round with me Shobhna - one little bit of the mildest chili is enough to destroy all my taste-buds for a day - but I like an inch thick layer of horseradish on my beef (I might be exaggarating a little bit )

Thanks for those tips, and I like the idea of things that grow quickly - it makes sense I guess. Leeks are a very good idea.Will give the nastusrtiums another go - last year I planted them too close to the courgette plants and they didn't do too well what with spending their lives under the...

Sorry, wasn't concentrating on who-was-who-and-said-what ...I reckon all bets are off if they are in a seed tray. Easy enough to sow some more (time lost is not critical as still early for carrots, so to speak) and it would be a pity if the transplanted ones didn't come to anything (all...

I've never grown tatties in anything as deep as a dustbin, but i have in big plastic pots (Big bucket size). It's a good way of growng new potatoes quickly, before they get blight. I used big pots, reused compost, "seed" potatoes from the veg rack that had started growing, one or two to a...

|Brilliant that's great ta. The minbels can live on the sill and the MM can go on the table behind them.. I have a big spare room facing south with a 7ft windowl, so this year that's being a conservatory & I'm filing it with plants. Is the closest I'll ever come to posh LOL

ok that's great ta. The soil here is poor and crumbly anyway !

hi Freddy, My mum had a lot of success with toms last year using the same sort of idea. She bought some bottomless pot thingies with a ring around for watering, and filled them with topsoil & sat them on top of growbags. The toms grew down through the soil & rooted into the growbags. She got 3...

You could crush them up a bit first if you want it to break down quicker. Just smack with a spade or roll a weight over them

if you like fresh raw garden peas they're dead easy to grow , im a novice aswell an i put some in a half whisky barrel last year, watered em now and again then had a couple of weeks eatin em fresh sat in the garden, makes it a bit windy later tho :lollol: didnt bother saving any for dinners, its...

i sowed 8 of the free cherry tomato seed from the Gardeners World mag last Thursday into seed compost in 2"ish pots, 1 in each pot and put a butty bag on each one and left on kitchen windowsill. Every one has germinated so have taken the bags off. I'm so excited lol (small things amuse small...

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I have joined in the bargain buys, I bought a Raspberry plant from the £ shop and it has about 5 shoots coming off it so heres hoping I will get some off it this year ???

not forced, grown outside with some mesh over the top to stop the gales blowing it to bits. The buds of new life could be seen before the new year. Its Timperly Early, bought of ebay this is its third season with me. The roots looked like broken up crown bits when I got them, they were good...

Thanks for that.

Where do you keep them now? Mine stayed outside through the winter.

Planting different varieties together is a sure fire way of getting a colourful display.My mother always plants on the basis of what colour flowers they produce !!Scarlet emperor is my choice this year, and i will also be planting Blue Lake(climbing french bean) and Borlotti beans, together...

Start of April will be fine. First earlies take 9 or 10 weeks to crop, maincrop about 12-14 weeks.Dont plant them too early. If you really cant wait, plant some in a growbag in a frost free greenhouse mid march .

All sorts of possibilities. I suppose it would depend on how big your pot/tub is but you got me thinking maybe some in the greenhouse and moved out later hmmm. I have grown some in tubs outside but much later and quite good results.