Edible Gardening

We, also, don't bother collecting veggie seeds from our plants and buy cheaply through ebay or seed packet sales at end of season. Cheap, bulk buys can be shared with friends although I always use all the bulk purchase of runner bean seeds (500 for £5.99 ).Tomato seeds are the exception. ...

Yes that's the image, thanks, and yes that sounds like the problem, think I'll prune first, them the scrubbing brush and then attack them with chemicals Thank you very much,Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk

I like having arming growing out my sides! But my tomatoes are in the garden so I can stake their arms widely apart. I do remove the side shoots of cordon/vine/indeterminate types. One reason this is recommended is to allow sunlight onto the immature fruit to ripen them and another is so that...

If they're left on the plant chillies start to shrivel once they have reached full maturity. It could simply be just that. They need picking and eating . I'd prefer to look on the bright side and hope that they are just mature chillies.That chilli in the front does look as though it may be...

It does seem like they race up the canes - within days of planting them (well ... of them "starting to climb" which may be a while after planting if it is cold etc.). And then they leaf-up and start flowering & fruiting

Well we decided to harvest today (mostly due to impatience haha)We got a washing up basin full! A fair haul! Some teeny tiny, others a decent size. We baked all the tiny ones tonightin garlic and had a salad with them. Mmmm! Fair enjoyed them!

Load those pellets, it's pigeon pie for tea.

Yup. If you have to many runners per plant (or you don't want any at all) chop off the excess ones.

I'm glad I have read this as all 8 of my courgette plants have the white markings on the leaves

They've got a maximum of two chances Dunno whether I should, or not?? but I use Neem Oil (and Horticultural soap as a wetting agent) on edibles that get plagued with aphid or Red Spider, and it seems effective (although Cucumber leaves tend to dry up and go brittle as a result, but the...

I think you might have a rabbit problem. With 6 - 8" high carots slugs would eat through the stems leaving bitten off chunks of leaf on the ground, or nibble some leaf off a stem, but rabbits scoff the lot, starting at the top and working down.

You sound like Mrs K She equates "New Potatoes" with "nice small Jersey Royals from the Supermarket" The ones in the Supermarket are graded, so all a nice small size. The ones in your garden are growing, and if I harvested them at the size Mrs K wants I would get 4 spuds per plant and loads...

They were delicious! The taste was like nothing I've ever bought in the shops...they really do taste better when you grow your own. Am having a stab at sweet corn and cucumbers this year...oh and runner beans and mini peppers!

Yes, important that they don't get too much heat as a side effect from "good light". A closed south facing window can be like an oven, in that regard, with heat generated by the sun trapped near the window. So that's the thing to avoid. But "hot" and "sunny" is fine, just need to avoid them...

Hi, JaneI have a 'red wriggler' worm, the compost kind that are bread for fishing bait by being fed a diet of horse manure (from youtube) I do not think they will leave if they are happy, the location outside is kind of hostile for a worm, and if they are not happy the farm will not work...

Thats screwed to the wall (its actually a couple of bits of old decking that I rescued from next door when she remodelled - but I do have a stash of old timber so I could knock something up if I needed too.

Hi Dips I would agree with Kristen's Advice check this web site for info he does amazing things with Chillies. Regards Alex

Remember if you are starting off a new bed, you are not supposed to take a crop for two years! If I'm not mistaken anyway.My parents had a big asparagus bed at a childhood house. I went by a few years ago to find the asparagus still there and in full growth. There must have been about 50 of...

Here removing the side shoots is optional on cordons. Same yield but smaller tomatoes if shoots left on - bigger tomatoes but less if they are pinched. I very rarely pinch shoots on cordon tomatoes and it does not matter, just get a big bushy thing. But that is here in a different place, lots of...

best post Ramshackle, I am off to do it - now! ----------------------------->>>>>>>>(looks at moth in a worried Checkhovian way)