Edible Gardening

Peter best of luck mate in doing them

Well, I finally went on holiday for two weeks, crossing my fingers leaving my garden and vegetables unattended, given I have no direct water to the garden. If the weather forecast are to be trusted, it did not rain for 7 days, with high temperatures, and then it rained a few times heavily. Given...

Your welcome mate...especially members who could ID them for you

@HarryS I forgot to say in the cinnamon bread pudding where it calls for half and half use evaporated milk.

You probably know this but those fruit are not yet ripe, you need to let them fully ripen before harvesting them for seed.

We know Mike we`ll all be saying hail watsits for you

Buy an ericaceous soil compost ricky. Peat and john innes are completely different. JI is a blended soil mix.....a basic formula for producing an ideal growing medium. Peat has hardly any nutrients in it You can add flowers of sulphur to make soil more acidic or to maintain an acid soil but...

It's only partially archived, only tomato varieties beginning with the letter A Category:Tomato Variety List - Tatiana's TOMATOBaseEverything else is missing, for example

I'm going to give it a go for no other reason than I can - - worst case, I will have a pot at the back of the living room with a plant in it over winter

Ok thank you for the help

I think they're only small fruit anyway as hanging variety ones? I've watered daily but I wonder if they have still got a bit dry maybe? We have lots of bees and insects so shouldn't be a pollination issue?

And these even more so than hessian potato sacks as they're a coarser weave.

It depends on how much attention you can give them, how well they get watered, whether the soil has enough nutrients etc. I never cut anything off mine and never have to nip the tops out as my frames allow them to continue to grow and be supported.That's no help to you if you have limited...

They are throwing cherries at you round here this year, they are ripening faster than they can pick them. Never tried wild ones, usually the birds get them before they are ripe.

Thanks for that. I read this article on the difficulty of evervearing: (link)I realise now that it's a canadian source so their colder climates would make things very different to growing here.

Since I didn't know I was supposed to be pinching them - that's kinda happened by default lol

HiMany thanks for the responses and tips.OK, so it's looking like the heatwave may be the cause then...For the record, when do summer raspberries usually come to an end?The only thing of slight concern I have is that some of the summer raspberry's next year canes have brown dying...

Good god @Zigs never even heard of Boron far less being deficient in it. I am just about coping with the water deficiency this season and you are now giving me yet more things to worry about. Hmmm thought gardening was meant to be a good form of relaxation...fat chance

Yes, either Paul. I prefer straw from spring onwards though so maybe bark for now and straw when fruit is forming (keeps fruit clean, dry and slug free)

Like Marley @Mike77 I dry mine off in the greenhouse in my ne of those blue mushroom trays and I leave them in there until any foliage has died off completely plus the roots that will still be alive at the base of each shallot will dry off.I think if you pickle them with the roots still attached...