Edible Gardening

Hi Josephine,If it is getting that bad then yes you might as well raise the netting.Some people on our allotments make up a framework from old pieces of wood like battons,and then they drape the netting over the top and hold it down with bricks or stones.If you have a look at Plotty's thread...

Celery -particularly the self blanching that would be harvested before the winter.

Seems I should have looked at Dave W's link, thanks Dave

Just picked the last three ridge (bobbly ones) in our little polytunnel. It certainly has been a pretty good year for cucumbers, we had three Femspot F1s in the GH and one in the tunnel as well as three ridge cucumbers in the tunnel. The ones in the tunnel grown in soil cropped much better and...

You are correct, raspberies are usualy defined by their normal fruiting period. However many plants dont do what you expect them to do and you can manipulate them to fruit at different times. Autumn fruiters will fruit on old canes the following June if not cut back and by cutting back by varing...

Try throwing a couple of chillies into some of it when boiling Harry. Superb with cheese.

I've heard that putting them in the freezer has the same effect. One of the reasons why frozen tastes slightly different from fresh.

Hi willow13, I grew these a couple of years back and although they didn't grow very big they were really tasty. Which site did you get your info from? I'd like to have a look to see if I can improve on my first effort.

cajary, I would like to grow some blueberries. what size of pot did you get three into or were they in different pots, any suggestions about other varieties to mix with top hat.

You could try using a litre from this:eek: maybe not ............ banana skins would be cheaper

Hi NurseWhen, yeah, I had a few of his books around 20 years ago before I stopped growing veggies. It looks like I`m gonna be moving to a house with a large garden shortly so I`ll be able to get things going again on the veggy front, hence the book. Just thought I`d spread the word ...

Don't know whats going on with your forking veg Roders :D

Any thing can be grown in a raised bed

Hi Kathy New growth late Oct is unusual but we have had such a mild time just recently with our Indian summer that I think the plants and bushes have thought it was spring again! They'll wise up after a few frosts no doubt. John

Ate our first ones on Friday.The plants are a little shorter than I would like but the sprouts are fine

A few of mine have bolted - I put it down to the wet weather

Breakfast this morning and delicious too! Ogen melon - unfortunately the last one this year :(

I tried aubergines this year as well, as I was given a couple of plants - similar story, although mine didn't even grow very big, got a few flowers but no fruits. I had them in half grow-bags in a mini-greenhouse but everything got too big so I had to leave the door open all the time! I didn't...

I had the self-same problem this year. Three of my courgette plants had this, and the leaves went very small, yellowish, and crinkly. We ate the courgettes anyway, and still alive. The fourth plant was unaffected, and is still producing, whereas the other three have rotted away completely while...

I'm not keen on loganberries - the hulls are too much and they seem to go mouldy before they ripen properly. Tayberries - I've grown several over the years, with the same result - 1 or 2 years of great abundance then a reversion to small acrop of small fruit. Never tried a boysenberry, but...