Edible Gardening

I've grown mine in pots on the windowsill in the lounge. They were mini peppers and have had about twenty peppers so far. They look great. I just keep mine we'll watered and also used a soft paintbrush to pollinate the flowers as they opened. Seems to have done the trick!

I didn't know that you were a Scottish shorty, @Scrungee ?

Not a case of being wrong, just a difference between countriesI've used them as a floor in my shed at my allotment, and will use them again for a new shed up at home too.Many of the beds at my allotment are edged with them.Steve...

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I would just multi-sow Lindsay, some in a pot, some in a tray, some direct in the ground....Steve...

Just tap water, although it is usually warm from sitting in the greenhouse. My aubies seem to really appreciate the increase in humidity.

I wish my tomatoes looked like those monsters!

Looks good, woo!My apples and pears are looking abundant this year (but, I doubt I'll be around to harvest). My two rhubarbs are both earlies and did very well, but, they are in a bed with Jerusalem Artichokes and have disappeared under the assault

Courgettes any day now! Been at the mange tout already and the goosegogs and summer raspberries.

What is a root sucker?Was reading ehow and they suggest it's got high success rate for growing from cuttings

Last week I had a walk around Helmsley Walled garden and came across their Charlotte potatoes,looks like they had the same problem as me..I couldn't find anyone to speak to about them though ...

Actually that does sound like unpollinated plants. A bit weird as you've got several. we get the occasional unpollinated fruit, but Mother Nature gets the rest pollinated. Maybe try hand pollinating with a cotton bud or similar. I think the stigma is ready to receive the pollen before the flower...

I'm still using replanted bolted onions from last year in my sandwiches Just pick a leaf off every morning

I think, given the late start, it will be pushing it!! to get much/any crop off those Peppers this year. Folk tend to start them early (relative to other things) as they take a while to get going. But ... with a good Summer & Autumn you never know, and if nothing else you would gain experience ...

Just love them raw, But in anticipation scoured the web for ideas came up with a pickle : 2lbs Zucchini,1 Medium Onion,2 teaspoons salt,1 and half cup cider vinegar, 1 and half cup of white wine vinegar, 2 cups of sugar,1 teaspoon mustard seed, 3/4 spoon black peppercorns, 1 and a quarter...

It sounds more like slug damage. Have a look at the lettuces late at night, that's when slugs come out and do their damage. You can pick them off or use a few carefully sprinkled slug pellets if you're not organic.

Nope, the leaves dying back means the plant is a gonna, the tubers will not get any bigger.

I tried them last year, like you say I found them a bit tough and stringy. The grandkids loved them only because they gave them purple tongues and teeth. So I'm not bothering with them again, back to normal sugarsnaps this year which have been lovely tasting.

Must admit I myself have never grown peppers like this but I think it might be how its done commercially, I remember years ago someone telling me that pepper plants that are grown for supermarket produce usually are very tall. I think it will give you better quality peppers, but peppers, I...