Edible Gardening

Enjoy.:gnthb:

Hi there, I saw your leeks and it makes me want to make some soup :hehe::gnthb:....love leek and potato soup :gnthb: It is sadly still waaaay too cold here, and we still have snow, the current temp is -22 here, i give up, i am so sick of winter here in Ontario :flag::flag:

Hi again Its been a while, having big problems with the Internet. In the past I have tried growing basil and coriander but they were ratified failures. At the moment thyme that seems to be going well. Think I am just too impatient and end up killing them with kindness.Thanks for the replies...

Hi Marie. It's a good idea to keep the ends closed up for the time being. The general idea is to keep out icy drafts at this time of year. IMHO, I'd leave it closed until the seedlings were established UNLESS the weather picked up considerably. Of course, if we get the odd very warm day...

Carrots and beetroot indoors Dai ?

Aaron it takes time, but you are getting there.:thumb:

Dave, If it's a summer fruiting variety then you should cut down all the canes that have borne fruit after picking and then tie in the new unfruited growth which will provide the crop for next season. If you have the plants supported you should in February cut the tops down to with about 6" of...

I got fed up with waiting for weather heard Jim Bacon : weather man: on Mo Dutter this morning , he's a very keen gardner and live in Lincs. He said all onions/ shallots/ garlic should be in by now, and late frosts wont affect them . I put 50 Stuttgarter/50 Red Baron and a row of...

Hi all.Well, as an experiment, I potted up the brassicas, and well over half of them are doing fine, and have put on a spurt of growth in the recent warm weather. They are now all outside under netting.Neraly all the brussels have started to produce wee sprouts, some as big as a marble,...

I haven`t ever ever heard that one Terrier-i still have some parsley seeds left from my previous failed attempts and will give it one last try.

I am planting poached egg and nemophila plants to attract the predators of the pests-anyone had any joy with that in the past?

Thanks kristen. I have some T & M and some other seeds of the type that I really want. It was just that I would like to identify the ones with the black seeds. The flesh was not as spaghetti-like as the others but nevertheless quite worth the efort. Pat

Nip the tops out. best to grow dwarf varieties if Blackfly is a problem. you can spray with fairy liqiud diluted

Hi Thanks for the advice, I will get them in as soon as possible then.Dave

Thank you both for your advice. I'll cross fingers and hope to be back later in the year posting in the recipes section about what to do with them.

Adam you just have to work with what time you've got, things seem to catch up when planted later, you might not get such early onions as others but I'm sure that doesn't matter. I've found when planting in Jan/Feb that my onions tend to bolt (produce flower heads) so I try and leave it a bit...

I`m giving them a bash this year-sugarsnap mostly and I reckon if all goes well they won`t make it to the kitchen either.

We have chicken wire (make sure you get "rabbit wire", rather than Chicken wire - its a different mesh size) all around our garden, and [within that] round the veg patch too "just in case". We had it professionally installed, and they just bent the bottom 6" or 9" outwards and trampled into the...

I've grown foremost and can vouch for their taste - a good choice in my opinion :gnthb:

Spuds aren't native but come from the Andes, where it's too cold for aphids to live, and spread viruses. Here, any self seeding spuds would eventually succumb to disease after a few years. Certified virus free spuds are grown about aphid height (2000m in the UK, although my memory could be...