Edible Gardening

Can you over winter onions @WeeTam? Do you mean sets or seed grown? Under cover ie greenhouse/poly tunnel or outside? I know you live in Scotland too so interested in you experience having a similar climate. I certainly grow garlic outside planting cloves any time soon but have never thought of...

I think you were right. It is an edible variety. The birds did away with most of the fruits before they got ripe enough to pick. But I tried some of what is left and this year it tastes nice. Not sure why though, perhaps the extra sun we had this summer helped improving the taste.I guess I'll...

I'm only talking about saving 'seed' potatoes from varieties that are no longer commercially available

We've picked most of the cooking apples from a disabled friends tree, collected all the usuable windfalls, made apple pies for him (and us), bagged up some picked apples for him to give to others, pressed enough cooker juice to mix with eater juice (bottled last year) made 18 galls cider, and...

@misterQ , great job on reporting your veggie trials , well done !

Before I saw the answers I thought they were grapes and laughed at myself for potentially eating poisonous berries if I was there =pEdit: They look lovely though are they easy to grow?

Think that might be the one! Thank you for your help everyone

These runners or shoots are the plants natural means of increasing, of continuing the species etc. For the gardener they can be a great asset. Wowee! no need to save and sow seed, no need dor taking cuttings and no need for root division.Whether in the case of fruits such as strawberries or...

oh right never knew that I was growing yellow courgette next to them so better not use them then

I'm glad to say.

Nurseries often replant young trees a couple of times I believe. It's done to create a compact root ball of fine roots.Yours look fairly young, not sure how long they have been there, but should move OK once the leaves have dropped would be the best time I'm thinking.A good stake might be...

@all -Many thanks for the useful replies. I won't do anything drastic just yet, but may pull a few tomorrow and cut them in half to see if the potatoes are healthy on the inside to put my mind at ease. And of course it's a perfect excuse to maybe eat a few tomorrow.I first noticed the leaves...

I'd spend the time getting rid of those nasty weeds. I've marestail too, blinking nuisance. I like to grow spinach and chard. Both stand through the dismal Scottish weather. It depends on what you like to eat. Lettuce can be grown too. I don't like it so don't bother.

They are actually perfectly OK to eat so don't remove them next time.

Sienna, yum yum . Looks delicious But, custard? Custard? You need Cornish Clotted Cream with it

Has anyone experience of growing gooseberries, redcurrants, white currants, blackcurrants, and blackberries. on cordons. It seems that this would allow me to plant more bushes, and with a greater variety, than if I went by the normal figures usually quoted (5ft spacing).This sounded ideal as I...

I have used black treacle for years mainly to feed the micro herd

Thanks for that and the pictures

Oh easily Cassie! I miss ripe ones-they fall. I even throw ones that are damaged on the raspberry bed. In the end some are bound to germinate.So perhaps they can revert to summer fruiting and mutate to `golden`?!!! Damn-these lanky ones make picking the fruit that`s coming now much harder and...

@JWK Thanks, I'll give it a go then, surely it cannot hurt