Edible Gardening

Well you will never know unless you try - I know how you feel having got so far with these plants, maybe you have more space than I was imagining.

As I cannot dig, I find that pulling nettles works well. They come up root and all.

...and here’s some photographic proof!

Clay itself is neutral, my allotment is clay and quite alkaline whereas I know in other areas it can be acidic.Not sure what you mean by :If you mean you are digging up the sub soil then that's not good.Grit and organic material are a good thing, sharp sand is cheap and will also...

Are they in the dark? Usually the sprouts only get long if the spuds are in the dark.Main Crop should be ok for another month I would think.

That's exactly right . Cayenne pepper is a particular type of chilli. The heat of chillies change from time of year and growing conditions - and how long they have been on the plant.The heat is measured on the Scoville Scale and Cayenne is in the lower end of the very hot varieties and the...

Sown Gardener's Delight 2005 & 2012 today

Ooops, sorry about that, have corrected it, now correctly links to Ken Muirs PDF

I started typing a new thread about "Too early to plant Potatoes" checked through the threads and here is the exact same comment I had started in 2014. Great thanks for all these answers.I am going to start some first earlies, Pentland Javelin in the greenhouse very soon in the hope of...

@ChilliPepper I've never had much success with autumn sown peas, probably need cloches or similar. Broad beans have always been more successful. Mine currently have flowers on them although the recent winds have battered them around.

Do you mean those orangey red ones from Spain? Mostly grown hydroponically under glass so bound to be tasteless.

I think they will be perfect @mazambo, thanks a lot. I must've been looking with my eyes shut.

Not for this year, but maybe next! They do look pretty. Thank you

When the spears poke up in the Spring (exactly when depends on your area/climate), you can take a stem or two from each plant. (Before the pointy end starts opening out). If the plants are big and strong, you can do it again this year. That will probably be it for 2020, but as long as the fern...

I used to grow them and they made a very good soup. We don't grow any root veg nowadays As they discolour so easily it's best to dip them in acidulated water when preparing them.

That's ok,anytime have a good Sunday.

I have myself grown carrots in partly rotted manure, many times before and have stated as such many times here on GC. Still many people will quote that doing so causes "forking", because it is enshrined in folklore and over time it itself becomes "law" and is quoted often in many publications. I...

I have found chives, rhubarb and tarragon have grown OK in shade. Reading about what to grow in shade for food before I found that as a general rule crops that are harvested as leaves or roots can do OK as it is more the plants that need a longer growing season and more light to produce fruit...

Neeps, maybe, if your in Scotland?

Last season I grew Super Marmalade, Crystal,Ferline & Shirley. Shirley was the best Taste & cropper........Crystal is the one I won't grow again. Hope this helps Paul.