Edible Gardening

Thanks again everyone, much appreciated.

My plot was used as a horse pasture for a few years before i got it, that may have helped a little

Thanks all. I have a number of young plants right now and it's only over the past few days that they've started flowering. Mostly producing male flowers but a few female too (four so far) so I've been fertilizing manually using a very small and soft paintbrush.As an aside, today another female...

Oh, I can let you have some cuttings.

Morning, yes all done. It was very easy so hopefully it'll still fruit! Thanks for your advice

I put in a series of drain holes along the bottom I did see some worms as I was turning it over too. I didn't really want to brim it too much so as to keep the soil from spilling onto the patio when my 11 year old starts "farming" it If it settles a bit I'll try and add some soil

Some Radish, French breakfast................well it's a start lol

I never have much luck sowing peas straight in the ground, either too cold and they rot or mice eat them. If the mice miss them the pigeons won't.I start mine in pots in the greenhouse and transplant when they are about 6" tall. I sow about a dozen in a 5" pot.

Things are now beginning to get going despite the weather, click on the link to watch a very short video. - growing our own organic vegetables by tigerburnie, on Flickr

I'll be using mine on the potatoes if we have another really cold snap, as they won't all fit in the greenhouse now.

Thanks Pete. I'd better get busy

There's a guy on you tube who grows fantastically fruit laden plants from the seeds from produce he's bought at the shops, (strawberries, tomatoes and peppers I've seen up to now), on a balcony, using old cut down plastic milk bottles as growing pots! Proper basic, but extremely...

Thanks John, I was under the impression that something that is going to take 3 months and often left in the ground longer than that wouldn't benefit. Interesting.

I've only just put some in pots yesturday, but with be doing more in 2 weeks time, then another 2 weeks and so on, Half my spuds was planted last week in the nice sunshine and i will plant more when it warms up again

I have found 12 3.5in Pots so will plant the seeds at the end of the month

Personally I'd add a bagful of multipurpose compost in the soil. It's easy on seedlings whereas garden soil can be quite lumpy and uneven- but obviously it depends on what you've got. My heavy clay would just laugh at seeds May is great time to start sowing and planting salady stuff. To...

We have the plant in the garden and it has become a shrub over knee high and spreads easily. If you get too many just dig them out, pot them up and sell them We do.

@Loofah No. 1 son goes rutting!!!!

I do three sowings of brassicas, the main one is mid March for summer harvest brassicas (cabbage and calabrese/broccoli). Then May/June for the autumn/winter harvest stuff like sprouts, purple sprouting and caulis and winter cabbages and more broccoli. Then July for spring greens and kale. Just...

Hi All,In our back garden there's a south facing section approx. 4 fence panels long, I want to use it for a "Vertical gardening" project so was thinking:1) Use green metal "box profile" roofing sheets to clad the whole lot to start (screw to existing concrete fence panels. Can get these in...