General Chat

Hi Secret Squirrell, yes they do bare fruit in the winter months, they grow grow green olives and I pick them then and bottle them in Brine, they turn black after green if I havent picked them all and then fall off, I am not sure if you can eat them when they are black (I dont know if black is a different tree) so havent tried them then.

Hi Maddie, does the olive tree produce olives that you can eat?

I grow lots of veg, but cheat in a way, I do it all in containers on my top patio so no digging and weeding, I save that for the flowers in my garden.

I am quite succesful in tubs and have been doing it a few years, this year I have 5 tubs of strawberrys, it started as two tubs a few years ago, but they grow runners which I cut a few back and sometimes place another pot beside them and they spread.

I also do Radish, Spring Onions and Salad Leaves (very easy in tubs and great fun for kids). Leeks a bit more difficult and Carrots, this year is my first good crop - trial and error on Carrots, Red Onions, Tumbling Toms in baskets which look great in hanging baskets off the trunk of my Laburnham tree, Beef Toms in Pots and Peppers, all growing well and I am due to harvest my spuds this week :)

I lost my cucumber and my Courgettes this year to White Rot, but will try agin next year - I think I should have watered the base and not the leaves and Broccoli which I was suprised how simple it is to grow, but ive had real problems with slugs on that one and had to move into a mini greenhouse.

I also grow fruit in pots and have succesfully grown a Fig and Olive Tree in Pots in my Rockery on the lower patio and Hawthorns I have almost Ten dotted around the Garden so grow Sloes to make Sloe Gin :)

Oh and I dont know if it counts, but I do my own beansprouts and freeze them if I have too many, takes ten days to grow them long and thick enough for a chinese and I do them in a Jar in the kitchen cupboard. Works out about 10p to Grow as many as you get in a fresh bag in the shops for about 75p.

PMSL

I KNOW LOL

anything bigger than a large grapefruit is a whopper potato
round or oval brown skin white or cream flesh

you know keith sort of tattie looking!!!

Whats a whopper potato look like ?

If a 5 year old can do it.....so can I...

Thanks Joy :)

yes you can hun i think only if they are sprouting
years ago my son then aged about 5
planted some peelings
and he grow three whopper potatoes from them

Sorry for being so dense, can you grow potatoes from potato peelings? I thought you grew them from other potatoes lol You can tell I've never grown them lol

Where do you keep your spuds BC?

I should imagine they love their job Keith :)

i have 2 sons who work in the Tranmere and Rock Ferry area of the Wirral.
helping peeps to grow veg

i am gonna try potatoes peelings in a bin bag next year
with all my used potting compost
and if i get get even one tattie
all is well it will of cost me nothing

I have runner beans growing up my parasol, a tomato plant which looks promising, and I have dug my spuds up in great excitement even though half were green, I couldnt wait! I cut the green bits off as I heard they were poisonous. `All in pots on my patio. Sooooo satisfying:-) BCXX

I never thought of that! Thank you Joy :-)

yes i add them between the flowers
and when the flowers die down
i am left with my salad stuff still growing if
we have a BBQ we can pick our salad fresh from the baskets but you have to feed them regular

i also have radishes growing round the base of my yucca trees

Joy, I will have to try the spring onions and lettuces next year, did you say that you grew them amongst the flowers?

they are spring onions in my baskets hun
the lettuce is called little gems and are tiny
my tomatoes are tumbling tom tiny and very sweet
and are growing very well if i say it myself


we did try growing bannas
last year in large pots in the summer house
but they died over the winter

that sounds absolutely idilic Shemp :-)

I've never heard of anyone growing nuts before. What does it involve?

A squirrel has to eat you know ;)

wow Joy, I never thought of doing that with onions (are they normal or spring onions?) and lettuce.

What a good idea - thank you!

i grow tiny lettuce tomatos and onions in my hanging baskets
amongst my flowers
cucumbers and herbs in a pots

i cant grow anything in the garden ground
as Benson my dog digs them up or diddles on them
so its paves decked and graveled