Selfsufficientish.com

They could be whitefly.

Coat a piece of cardboard with heavy grease.
Hold it grease side down.
Move it slowly over the brassica.
The whitefly will leap up and stick to the grease.

Genie,

You should read, mark and inwardly digest Stoneheads signature.

Hi Alicej,

Everyone has a pic of Margo to begin with.

It changes with numbers of posts.

When we're grownup we can have our own.

Welcome.

PS

The spellcheck imp is sulking too.

The spellchecking imp is playing games.

It keeps opening the website.

Can you smack its bottom and ask it to stick to spells?

All the shower water goes onto the soft fruit (into the ground below them, actually). All the washing-up water goes into the half-barrel with the fig (and the tomato plants Margaret has co-planted). Any that's left goes over newly sown veg seed. While the South-East of England has hosepipe restricti...

We started with a couple of plum trees that my old dad (bit of a wine expert) gave to me. He thought they were suckers, but they are seedlings. The squirrels sowed the seeds around our garden and now they are a weed. Every tree (we probably have 20 or 30 now) produces a slightly different type of pl...

Shirlz2005 wrote: Must look into the seed possibilities - much cheaper than plants but is it effective.

Sadly, no. They won't come true to type.

Try cuttings.
I just push pruned branches into the ground and wait.
About 80% root.

So the figs that are forming now are going to fall off? Probably. Possibly. Don't worry about it. Thing is, our Summer is not really long enough and our winters are too cold. If we get a really mild winter, they'll stay on. If we then get a warm sunny Summer they'll ripen, and you'll drool. While t...

Millymollymandy wrote:Right that's decided, I shall get some blueberries. I thought they would be sour like redcurrants!

When your redcurrants turn red leave them on the bush for another week (at least). Keep tasting one or two.

They get sweeter and sweeter.

Hedgewizard,

You did exactly the right thing

Do the Summer pruning in September (no kidding!) by cutting off the long whippy growth to two leaves.

That's it.

You'll get no apples next year: maybe not on 2008: but then it'll be great.

Andy,

You should be eating Tayberries about now.

Has it outgrown the site yet?
No?
Wait until next year

GQT says lots of things cheezy, but our walnut was fruiting within 5 years. Pity Margaret is allergic to nuts. Now that the walnut is twenty there is no room in the garden for a mulberry. I've offered to cut down the walnut and plant a mulberry instead, but she would would bury me under it in very s...

I wish we could grow cranbrries: our soil is not nearly acid enough.

Let us know how you get on.

My old dad used to make elderberry wine: it was fantastic :mrgreen: My old mum used to make elderberry tarts and pies: they were delicious :lol: The smell of elderflower gives me a very serious (off work for several days serious) headache, so I ruthlessly grub out every sign of elder. Elder trees ar...

Monty is SO right: restrict the roots. Ours is in a half-barrel, in a very sheltered sunny corner, and is watered with used washing-up water. It's growing really well. New figs are produced more-or-less continuously. Every winter the tiny figs fall off: it's too cold for them. Every spring new ones ...