Edible Gardening

@martin-f we have pretty strict laws about shooters. You should have seen the look on the border guard's face when I declared mine when coming back from the states after one of my visits. I wanted a Red Rider but I didn't want the brown/black one, I wanted a pink one so I had to order it and...

Are we seeing all three plants in that picture?

I'd not bother trying to plant if they are shooting now, I agree with @Linz . Just eat them and buy new ones in the autumn, why yours are shooting now is a mystery to me

I just put them in water, try in one week I'll try planting them in potting soil witha bit of perlite and vermiculite and see what happens.

Dug mine out a couple of weeks ago, not massive but good enough, got a few Elephants but they are still green.

mine are in my greenhouse, first time growing this year too and they have gone crazy, i found a fully grown cucumber the other day right at the bottom behind a leaf, didnt even notice it before. very please with my first cucumber experience.

After all recommendations here, I am into 2nd season of using Quadgrow for Tomato & cucumber crops ..... and when you see how much water they take up naturally in this weather, you realise how much you were getting it wrong.For those that also use Quadgrow - do you continue to use the 2-part...

No, dont soak. For me it made for muddy, messy work. A fork, a pick and hard work CoffeKev but do it slowly and thoroughly. I promise you, you will be glad you did it this way! It is also so satisfying! M Then use a spade and add compost for a glorious planting medium

Hi they are the sugar baby watermelons so not too big but would still take a fair bit of support I guess

Another way would be to lift your clump of chives this autumn, and divide it. I wouldn't do it now, because the plants are too stressed with the drought....

I did something like that before and put old yogurt pots on top of the canes and sometimes fixed the net to the top of the canes with clothes pegs.Net curtains sounds like a good idea might be able to pick up some cheap ones.

Well I have got rid of my raspberries now but I always propagated them when I pruned them and stuck the pruned canes in the ground and by Spring they were growing well..

Thanks @Scrungee

@JWK We grew winter Broad Beans which Mr Kandy sowed in November and when we came back from our holiday the other week they were infested with blackfly which we don’t normally get on winter beans.The infestation was so bad it was too late to do much about it and we didn’t want to spray with...

As i've worked which grain for many years, you always see rats and mice in some grain stores, if you have seen some of the things that go on you wouldn't eat bread againAs sayed above wash and discard any with bite marks

I impulse bought a 3-in-1 pack of raspberries some 8 years ago (from Wilkos- about £2 ), it has early, mid, and late fruiting plants. They have been growing happily in a 50cm container so far and give reliable crops every summer all summer long.Initially I tried to prune the varieties...

I think those are far more worthy of concentrating efforts on, especially using stuff picked from hedgerows for free.

Yes, tie down verticals except for main stem.For fruit, summer prune in late July early August.....do this by cutting shoots from tied down branches to 3 or 4 buds to create "spurs". It may be a little early for this year though. By cutting back like this in late summer you are encouraging...

Brill that’s what I thought but wanted to make sure thanks both

Hello Peter, Some varieties of plum are self-fertile but not all. Plums, gages and damsons: choosing cultivars/RHS Gardening This link will give more info. Sometimes, a frost or dry spell at the critical time in the fruit's development makes them all drop. Nothing much you can do about that...