Edible Gardening

I currently have blackcurrants, a gooseberry, a grape vine, a brown Turkey fig and have just bought a goji berry plant and now fancy a fruit tree which I can keep in a pot on the patio. I have considered having a duo plum tree (two varieties of plum grafted together in one - yellow and purple,...

Nice one I had a Kiwi a few years back, only ever grew tiny fruits though, despite being in full sun

Me again - below are pictures of my courgettes. These leaves look very sad - they are the original leaves. Should I snip them off before I plant them out tomorrow or is that too much trauma in one go? Wasn't sure if sniping the stem would effect the fruit. If I do snip the leaf off, do I just...

I've been thinking about what I will do with my pallet fence, when I've made it. I want to plant it - I was thinking aubretias and the like, using some slats to create troughs in the fence itself.Then I thought grapes! Would a grapevine be ok in the north Lincolnshire climate? Where the...

Tell her not to eat any green ones, even if you cut the green bit off light makes Solanine throughout the tuber.

never had a dog wait for a mouse a rat yes

I'm growing Fantasio, supposedly blight resistant.

Thanks.

Looking fit and healthy Zigs

From some keen gardeners' point of view that means you need a change of OH!

Got a couple of tattie bags in our local £ shop two years ago. I use el-cheapo grow bag compost and feed with home brew comfrey fertiliser. I reckon we'll start harvesting about the end of June as bags are in the polytunnel at present. You need to water regularly as they are thirsty plants.

Nice healthy looking plants, hope mine will be like that soon! They are still small.

A wheelbarrow and either a homemade sieve or plastic mushroom crate or bread tray.. Sieve the compost into the wheelbarrow, whatever stays in the tray goes back into the compost heap to break down further. Personally, I do not mind big bits if I am mixing compost directly into the soil. I sieve...

As promised - my first cucumber of the year ! -- And very nice it was too. I could probably let them get a little bit bigger than that in future...

Hi Nick, If you can, try to increase just the N,K and Ca at the 4th true leaf. Toms stockpile potassium (K) in fairly large quantities prior to flowering so they have enough to go at when the times comes. If the supply is limited they tend to wait around and use the time to generate more...

it will be fine , just let it get on with it and it will soon 50 times that size in a couple of weeks

Hi, I love blackcurrants but can't stand redcurrants so can only half help. Last autumn I butchered my seven blackcurrants bushes which were getting a bit scraggly. Maybe, 30cm trimming all over the plants - they did look WELL chopped when I finished. This is them this afternoon. These are...

I've now trapped 19 mice trying to eat seeds in my greenhouse.

Going to give them a feed tomorrow. Am I just feeding the Javelins or do they all get a feed. How long after a feed can I eat them? Can I just pull up one, two, three individual potatoes or however many I want? Or do I have to harvest the entire bag?