Edible Gardening

Hope you have more success with your melons' than I have with my pomegranate and kumquate.Have one kumquate on a large bush, thinking of cutting the bloomin thing into tiny peices and having a cerimonial bbq when it ripensGood luck,Paulap.s. you don't have to be mad to live here but...

hi liz, this has been true for me too although we seem to be getting more sunshine than most of the country, but I have never known the ground so wet.

Hello, we too are having a bumper crop of tatties but the peas are a big disappointment this year. The pods are yellowing on the plants and the size of the peas in them is miniscule. The broad beans were infested with black fly and the runner beans are only just beginning to be big enough to...

The side shoots are probably the cobs forming Kevin, later there are long strands of almost sticky threads that appear from these, each thread goes back down into the shoot to the corn. The pollen from the male flower on the top of the stem has to transfer down onto these threads to pollenate...

Our Maris Bard have grown to a decent size, but Sharpes Express are a bit disappointing

Hi MatthewOut of your list, I have grown beetroot, runner beans and radishes (not sure of the varieties either). They have all done well and, as a first time veggie grower, I'm very pleased.

Yes kedi, I'm not sure that pic is an exact match but if you look at some of the others it appears to be a variable plant. Dont think its good to eat though. :(

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Has anyone had this? The monsoon-like rain we`ve had has sent my 6ft+ sugar snaps almost horizontal.I`ve tied them back umpteen times but to no avail.The back row of sweetcorn is being choked.

Thanks, folks, it looks like there are indeed various ways of reusing it then. Some winter veggies might be a good idea, and I'll add some fertiliser granules.

Thanks for the replies I still have one in a pot outside that looks ok I may move him in the greenhouse I cannot find out if the male flowers should be removed on this plant it is called "Perfection" if one cucumber is fertilised will that meen the whole harvest from that plant will be bitter...

many thanks for your reply elainefiz i might give it a whirl , despite the weather we are having just lately i have managed to grow a bit of stuff in pots i started doing flowers last yr fed up of paying silly prices at garden centres ! and thought it would be nice to try some veg i have done...

Perhaps I was wrong, from the pic it looked like the corn hadn't formed, perhaps it had but was not ripe, unlike the main cob. :rolleyes:

I think it's been a bad year for veggies in general with all the rain we've had. Let's hope for more sunshine to dry things out and ripen then.

Thanks TO, I think i'm going to try the mini greenhouse. Let me know how yours get on and I'll do likewise.John

Thanks. Trouble was the plants themselves were beginning to wither and fall over.

Hehehe Windy, I guess you are right!Hope you'll still be growing So I can let you know !

pete, the individual flowers are dropping, or rather the stems carrying the flowers seem to be bending and then drying off. I think i'll just keep doing what i'm doing and see what happens, there are still plenty of flowers on there. Ive been checking out this variety on www, apparently they...

Never tried it, but I have heard of the salt trick on beetroot, the expanation I heard was that beetroot is a costal plant, naturally.

HI everyone who replied, Glad to hear I am not the only one with leggy tops. KevinO, I did put them on manure but it was well rotted,my daughter in law keeps horses and the manure is at least two years old,lovely stuff it looks good enough to eat if you know what i mean. Well broken down and...