Edible Gardening

Crop rotaion is always a problem in a small area, but don't forget you can grow most things in containers and that widens your scope for rotation.

Yes but when I have to find room in my OWN garden one day I will have the same problem as you and everybody else. :(

Hi Dave.I don't know about humidity, but peppers are certainly thirsty plants. I didn't seem to have any problems that might have been caused by overwatering - underwatering caused the greenfly to get a hold though. All types of sweet pepper I grew got to about 2'-3' high, and needed...

Hi Rosie.Wild rocket self-seeds every year in my garden. Some plants even overwinter well if sheltered. The cultivated rocket I tried once, doesn't seem so hardy - I have to re-plant from saved seeds each year. It's a milder taste. nice though.... cheers, Dave

I think I had that as well....cheers for the info fellas.

:D Very inventive!...Gives a whole new meaning to a fruit cage.

I need swedes for my homemade pasties lolMaybe my raised beds will help?

Lots of different names for it - ladies fingers, bhindi, baamia, gumbo, okura Japanese name) etc. Definitely a greenhouse plant - unless you are very lucky.Very important - Seedlings don't like being transplanted so sow in their ultimate pot.Although they need regular watering in hot...

Our local pound shop is selling fairly small dry-rooted blueberry bushes (and other fruits like raspberry canes). Has anyone tried these? I appreciate that they will take a few years to grow to a decent size, but it seems worth a try at �£1 - or would I be throwing my money away.

An excuse to get me in the garden first thing at the weekend then David!(I don't need an excuse, but I always feel I need to think up one for my husband...)

At the big Giga Garden Center here they had them fruiting already, and as you say pete the fruit were rather small, but I can't remember the price so may go by this weekend and look again.

Hi Scotkat, I've pulled up an old topic on butternut squash for you "Butternut Squash Trials". It is now near the top in "Edible Gardening". I hope it helps and doesn't frighten you too much :DAs you have already been told, you shouldn't plant them out until after the frosts are...

I've pulled up this old topic for Scotkat. Hope it helps :D

:D John, you`re crazy, my kind of fella :D

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I've still got frozen runners from last season, had a glut along with french beans, grew mine in greenhouse then transplanted, I was essentially unaffected by last summers downpours because I dug that much organic matter and compost into my plotDon't help I know, but I'm a novice?

Plotty has a thread going Vince.http://www.gardenerscorner.co.uk/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=15;t=001097

Vince, the only bit I remember about growing big onions is nitrogen up to the longest day then change to potash.The more leaves you can get the bigger the bulb, and the plant slows down leaf production after the longest day. Thats what they used to say, but maybe modern thinking has changed.

Thanks David, I've invested heavily into carrot production because the whole family love them raw or cooked

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