[Fluffywelshsheep]

lol wind is not a problem here (i live in a house with 3 blokes and two girls) so am used to that lol.

AM thinking of having a bashagain in the front garden just to tidy it up as it is look a bit of a mess at the moment

[resistance is fertile]

new for us this year are Asparagus peas, good climbers with a crazy pod! and crimson amaranth leaves to give the salad beds even more colour!

Working on a big scale solar drier for the Principe Borghese tomatoes so we hope to finally crack the english sun dried tomato market! will let you know how it pans out (maybe just bulk loads of passata )

[Fluffywelshsheep]

Now that sound promisiong and both interesting

[robert693]

I am trying leeks and several herbs such as terragon. Kale is really easy to grow and will over-winter well.

[Rosemary]

Never tried Tarragon - I think it's supposed to be hard to grow. Dan does a lovely chicken, lemon and tarragon soup - mmm, it's my favourite.

[pouletpaul]

I'm growing horse radish for the first time. Bought a couple of roots in January. Anybody any advice on growing techniques!!!

 

[Rosemary]

No - we were given some but Dan forgot where he planted it and iit's never shown up again!

[tankgirl]

ive not grown horse raddish, but am aware that its like mint and will spread if not contained and kept in a pot in the ground....hope that helps!

[whitby_sam]

I recently uprooted a conifer from the end of our drive as it obscured the view when reversing and caused my mum to have a small prang (nothing to do with an arthritic short-arse in a volvo reversing uphill then...). This left a patch of bare soil on what was otherwise a lovely front lawn. In a moment of madness I decided to dig it over and plant garlic, carrots, parsnips and beetroot. I must say it's caused a lot of shaken heads, confused looks and tutting. Being nextdoor to the church in a small farming community a lot of people walk past and its right in their line of sight...

I think I'll grass it over after I've harvested and leave the growing for the back garden.

[Rosemary]

Please don't! We dug up the front lawn in our old house to plat veggies - hte back garden was north facing and quite dull because of a huge Leylandii hedge. The vegies got some strange looks at first but folk were quite inetersted in it - I suspect more so now, as veg. growing has become more popular. Anyway, veggies look nice - we've got potatoes in pots on the patio and they're lovely, with dark purple flowers.

[Farmer Giles]

veggies look nice - we've got potatoes in pots on the patio and they're lovely, with dark purple flowers.

I didn't know that you could pot grow potatoes, what a brilliant idea. Any tips Rosemary???

[Fluffywelshsheep]

Oh the bigger the pot the better.
Put a little bit of soil in the pot then place tatties on top then earth up  like you would in the ground
linz

[Rosemary]

Yup, wouldn't disagree with anything Linz says.

I've got my Mayan Gold in pots - too expensive to risk in the dirty old ground!

[Fluffywelshsheep]

* Fluffywelshsheep is all for putting stuff in the 'wrong' place. I had tatties in the front lawn and i think i upset a load of neighbour but tough DIG FOR VICTORY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[hexhammeasure]

I'm going  to try growing mushrooms this year. I'm setting up an old bed frame filled with chipped bark for lions mane and putting shiitake and oyster mushrooms in the chipped bark I use for footpaths in the woods.

Hope it works....

Actually,  is a mushroom a vegetable???