Edible Gardening

Nice one! Good luck at the Boot Fair this weekend

That's how I use to grow carrots when I was showing.40 gallon oil drum with the bottom and top knocked out,fill with sharp sand,then get a iron piece of pipe and push it right to the bottom then turn the pipe round and round to form a tapered hole,fill with fine compost and sow 3/4 seeds per...

Good website.

Our local Sainsbury's sells them.

funnily it is the MIL and the husband that has struggled with the coloured ones the kids seem to love the treasure hunt of which one they got i have even seen them swapping or different colours saying they like purple / red ones better

Autumn would have been better, time is a bit short to establish them this year before flowering & fruiting (I think conventional advice is that for Spring planting remove flowers to prevent fruiting, in order to favour plant development, in the first year - the exception being if you buy in...

They've come directly from the bought fruit! I hope they will be OK.

If you vent it on sunny days, so it doesn't get too hot, then should be fine I reckon

I would have expected Runner Beans to be fine no matter how you start them off. They usually grow OK even constrained in small modules ... although I wouldn't use such a small container as that - I grow them in 9cm pots and then plant them out.Using Newspaper Pots, or Loo Rolls, you need to be...

Chicken pellets for me,last year was one of the best I've had for a long time.

I've done that the year Homebase gave away all their remaining seed spuds and onion setts when it was getting too late to plant them. The yield was mediocre, but they were planted out very late (end June/early July?) into un-prepared ground. I just couldn't resist the offer of something that was...

Evening all,Poundland are currently selling the above in bare root form for... £1 and I did get a few but I was wondering if it is worth investing in a few more but this decision relates to the following..My aunty has planted 4 fruit trees in two different big patches and I would like to...

Tomatoes: If you start/finish with mini-bush tomatoes they can be started either/both early/late and brought indoors at end of season for continued cropping. Non-F1 saved seeds will come true. Dwarf Beans: I always grow Safari fine French beans that tend to cost a fortune in the shops, but are...

sweet candle are grown by all showmen. both for size . quality and size. also taste is second to none. cheers wrinkly1

I can see in the first shot 5 or 6 canes that are past it, which does not leave too many canes behind once they are pruned. I'd say take the lot off and mulch it.If it is Autumn fruiting as you know you will get new stems and fruit this year. But one plant will not give you a great crop, a...

I'm wondering if sowing a 'turnip root' variety of parsnip such as Kral might overcome the forking problem if parsnips sown in tubes are left too long before planting out.

Best spuds i've had grew in the compost heap, they were lovely

I sow some early runners under cover in the propagator in early April to plant out in May. These are my 'risky' plants that survive if the weather stays OK and give me slightly earlier cropping in good weather.The next lot are sown late April and are ready to go out late May. Some of this...

I've heard of Strawberry Trees, but what's a (Long Cane) Raspberry Tree?