Edible Gardening

I've had this same problem this year, perhaps worse because my tree is heavily laden with fruit??Either way it appeared on some fruit long before they were ripe, I removed all that I could reach and disposed of them which did the trick but as the fruits are now ripening its back with a vengeance

Hi zigs I will pull it next year(its the only thing I will pull)Sorry about this joviality ,I got right to the root of the matter

How they do love their pogies! I gave them their daily throw and it is a scene - every one down to the tiniest chick is off with one to some neutral spot, tearing it to swallowable pieces. My s kinds of brassicas are sprouted - I am starting them in trays and I worry I am too early.

Signs are now that it may be a useless harvest for this year's veg

This is a quick tasty recipe for courgettes, but not particularly cheap! Using a potato peeler, cut ribbons lengthwise off the courgettes, discarding the seedy middle bit if they're big. Marinade the ribbons with crushed garlic, pine nuts, basil leaves, salt, pepper and olive oil for 10-30...

They did? Nice one

Could be earwigs a number of times I have picked reasonable sized bell peppers and cut them open to find a number of earwigs that had eaten the seeds. I would pick and use the ones with withered stalks as soon as possible.

Thanks for the replies I will get some tomorrow.Rusty

I've had leaf beet AKA chard/perpetual spinach grow to around 2m high when gone to seed. It happens regularly if you grow enough of the stuff and I grow hundreds of them as greenstuff for our hens. Seeds need to be sown in open ground for optimum growth and in fertile soil plus kept moist.

Spring onions are tastier than chives. Every cloud has a silver lining!

Car boot?

Looking thru my seed box discovered a packet of climbing french beans Unwins Sultana, soaked them overnight will plant them later today hopefully they will come on when the runners have finished.

Can you do the trick of putting Banana skins near the green fruit, to hasten ripening, with outdoor Toms? or will the Ethylene just blow away?

Leave em in, they'll crop for the next 3 years and then take some more runners and replace the plants with the new ones

@intel, it's early for the plants to finish, should keep going for a couple of months - until we get cold nights. Some of the lower leaves will yellow before then but not all. I wonder if yours are getting enough nutrients, they need feeding regularly with a high potash food same as tomatoes...

Yes, but it might be a bit early (unless your are already bulbing up more than mine have so far ...)

Indeed, however I am now wondering (from what I have read ) whether there is ANY UK summer that will give a reasonable crop of Yard Longs ... seems to me its a Greenhouse-or-nothing crop ... but time will tell

The leaf damage looks as though it's just normal die back that some leaves get. Just remove them.The beans could be from a number of things from just natural loss, stress from uneven watering, wind damage, ant damage etc. but if it's just a small proportion of the crop then you just need to...

Had mine for about 4 years again from Aldi - again no fruit or flower. In fairness though, I planted mine into a area of sandy embankment that I wanted to stabilise with planting and it is said Gogi is a good plant for this ...... So mine is earning it's keep up to now!

We'll I decided to go for it :-) I cut it and tasted it.... Was soooo nice lol. Here it is, featuring in a burger :-)