Edible Gardening

Bought my 'last' seed spuds today, now have:1st EARLYSwift x 8 (to be planted in bags started in tunnels for earliest spuds)2nd EARLYEstima x 9 (our favourite jacket spuds)Charlotte x 31 (for 'salad' spuds, 3 per large potato bag)Kestrel x 28 (my favourite all round...

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Nikirushka I depends on where you live/plant as to when you plant (due to frosts been over) frost will kill your crop if above groundYour earlies should be chitted starting now and planted early AprilRoughly Early take 16 weeks to grow second early 18 weeks to grow and Main 20 or so weeks to...

I bought a couple of leeks. I save the end part to regrow. Right now, I have them in water, but want to change them to soil (in containers).The only soil I have available right now is specific for seedlings and herbs. I also have some compost made from the grass of the garden, but I'm not sure...

How about herbs too..sage and rosemary plants can be bought as cheap plants,just plant in a well drained area,also coriander from seed is easy just sprinkle seeds on a patch,very lightly cover with compost,water and wait you can re seed every 2/3 week if you want. Chives are great too

Even has recipes, now that's tempting me to try some of them

@gryphon, you could get the ground ready dig in some farmyard manure (well rotted). Then wait until the end of March before you plant them

Alex has sent: Amish Paste Amish Gold Juane Flamme Spudakee Shirley Saint Pierre. Vanessa F1 Tomato Matina

Wow that would be lovely, I will PM you my address.

Nicely done @Zigs

That tree is beautiful @alexmac I found this information about the trees: Aldi rootstock :The rootstock information for all of the trees is listed below.Apples, – These will be budded onto a “M9 Dwarf” rootstock, which will fruit earlier.Cherry, – These are budded on to “Colt” rootstock...

We don't buy any foods with Aspartame in them. It's quite easy to avoid them as we don't use pre-packaged foods.

Thanks for your advice everyone. I have gone for some weed suppressing fabric and the cats have stayed clear so far.

I did a similar thing last year after hours of research and making lists, went to the garden centre and bought the wrong variety, got a second early (Charlotte) instead of a main crop. It still produced lots of good spuds though

Great guide, thank you. I am sure you are right but I thought it might be interesting to experiment with a very small number of early sowings using my grow lights (LED lights which apparently hardly use up any electricity) to extend the daylight hours after dusk until there is more daylight....

If anybody would like to pop over and dig mine up you'd be more than welcome. I'm sure they wouldn't mind being transplanted, they've put up with just about everything else without batting an eyelid.

I got Morrisons red onion sets today as well. And seed potatoes :-)

Good to know. I'm quite looking forward to a bumper season (i can wish!)

Id be covering crops in fleece never bubble plastic in a polytunnel. Bubble plastic over fleece if outside to stop the fleece getting wet and freezing only. IMHO

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