Edible Gardening

Use any bit of newspaper which contains the words 'diatomaceous earth' or has a picture of Putin hunting elk with a crossbow. Nature is a great wheel and it all is interconnected.

Agree, you are paying for the name. Look at the content label, £shop tomato fertiliser is much the same as proprietary brands.

One of my favourites is adding the flavour & bouquet of Honeysuckle flowers to Crab Apple jelly, but you need to press the juice from the crab apples, pasteurise it, then make the jelly the following year when the Honeysuckle is in bloom. Here's one I 'prepared earlier'

Hi all, I have 6 squash seedlings in my greenhouse that I grew from seed. Having never grew these before I'm not quite sure what to expect. Can I continue to grow them in the greenhouse or are they to go outside? Do some squashes climb and some grow low? Anyone grown squash?Gazania

Thanks Guys Might try a coupe of cloves and see what happens - other than that I'll just have to eat this one and wait a couple of months - then order some on-line

Oh forgot to say that I kept them in our pop up greenhouse until they got too tall then took them outside, I did this cause we live at the top of a hill and get high winds and the year before our sweetcorn got damaged.

As far as I know, Cauli's don't like to be 'checked', so water well

Upside down pears are always good for pear tart tatin!

I seem to have naff germination of old saved fennel seeds, but probably sufficient for my needs this year.

Aubergines are a whitefly magnet

My leaves have developed tiny brown speckles after the caterpillar attack; I doubt they are related but synchronous.

Bought a number of F1 Cucumber plants ... all kicked off well ... then 2 weeks in one of them looks particularly sickly ... limp leave with discolouration ... as per pic.In case it was mineral take up, I sprayed last 3 days with Epsom salts .... but no improvement ... any clues ...the nearest...

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What you need is a gert big stick

Hi all had a very busy day in the garden removed loads of weed and bushes to replace it with weed membrane and bark.looks loads tidier.raddish are coming up nicely about 1cm tall have 2 peppers in a large pot now.ones I brought yesterdayalao just sown some spring onions and carrots in the...

Thanks all for your advice.

Mostly we eat them fresh in salads or in sandwiches etc. By the end of the summer we usually have too many, some are given away to friends and family, the rest we make into soup/sauce and freeze.I'm not growing Goliath, must be someone else?

Vetch and Rye mix grows well on my heavy soil, and produces the best biomass of all green manure crops. Hungarian rye grass quickly draws up the soils nutrients and holds it until you dig it back in (stops it being washed away in winter rain), Vetch (Tares) produces nitrogen when dug back...

Fruit trees in pots are great things. Perhaps a grape too? They can be whacked back when the leaves drop to just a bare trunk 3 foot long - then kept in the shed till time to leaf out. Also the way to get them is those cheap dry rooted ones. They do not want good soil and lush conditions.

Very thorough rinse! Some people suggest rinsing at least twice.Watch out for mermaids