Edible Gardening

You can eat em green, they just won't store

Have done 2 showings of peas this year and not one has germinated . I will see if there are any at the garden centre.Rusty

ha ha aye... and one of my vines... the other one, though poorly, has struggled through and looks much better this year... :D

Success!!!! 6 green bean seedlings already! No sign of aubergine or courgette yet but still early.Thanks everyone

Thanks Pam!!

Depends on the variety, most spuds don't produce extra tubers by earthing up. What are you growing?

I always give brassicas a good helping of chicken manure pellets when preparing the ground and another feed with the same about half way through.Rusty

That sounds delicious

No problem....I'll send you some Bordeaux mixture and you can do a blue rinse Fetching!

Thank you @misterQ and @Marley Farley for your sage advice; taken on board and will have a rethink. I do have other containers so I could easily keep them separate which, on balance, would suit their requirements much better

I'm growing self blanching for the first time this year and have just planted 12 plants after starting them in the greenhouse. I tried 'normal' celery a few years ago but it didn't do well despite earthing up. I'm also trying growing a self blanching one that I've rooted from from the base of...

Tomatoes will be alright, I would be inclined to pot them into individual pots at this stage. I would leave the plant in the first picture and see what happens, it still has green shoots on it so give it a chance.

Interesting, thanks. Well, we can but wait and see.

Hubby's don't notice things like that They'll be fine if the growing points are still intact. Lift em up and check for snails, then put em up on something to keep em off

It does seem very early indeed. Fortunately my outdoor tomatoes are not yet outside and my usual crop of spuds is now reduced to just 6 seeds in the compost heap, so much less to worry about!!

Thanks for the update misterQ. I'm in awe! I'll go for an October 2017 sowing of my Aquadulce beans this year and hope to squeeze two crops in next year. My early 2017 sowing is doing well with pods developing nicely now and, touch wood, no sign of blackfly so far.

My cucs and toms get fed with homebrew comfrey and they both do well on it. I cut and brew over one year and use it as feed the next.

Or, @Paul Blackburn , if your location was in your profile, there might be a kind GC member local to you with some spare plants.P.S. I've admitted in the past to accidentally planting cordon toms in window boxes when I got their labels mixed up. I've stuck with Tumblers ever since as they're...

I agree totally, @JWK I didn't sow my own tomatoes for another three weeks, and courgettes even longer! My tomatoes are compact, and happy to shelter inside for another few weeks.When I grew cucumbers, they didn't go leggy like this. But then I didn't sow so early. However, I have given them...