What are you planning to grow 2016.

[munchh]

Pardon my ignorance. Is that like tomato food?

[featherstick]

No, tomato food is high in phosphorus to help the fruits to grow. Fish, Blood and Bone is higher in nitrogen, which helps leaves to grow, which will help the brocc to recover.

[munchh]

Cool, i will try some.

[munchh]

Finaly! but only on one plant?

[jansman]

My Polish neighbours have given me some gherkin seeds.Now pickled gherkins are a real favourite of mine, and Kris will give me a family recipe when the crop comes in.He is a good gardener for a young chap in his 30's. Mind you, he told me that back in Poland if you have no garden , then food is scarce.

[featherstick]

My Polish neighbours have given me some gherkin seeds.Now pickled gherkins are a real favourite of mine, and Kris will give me a family recipe when the crop comes in.He is a good gardener for a young chap in his 30's. Mind you, he told me that back in Poland if you have no garden , then food is scarce.

If you want to grow gherkins, you'll have to water them with vinegar.

[jansman]

Really? Wow, I wondered where I was going wrong with the 30 or so cucumbers I got from 5 plants last year.

[featherstick]

Really? Wow, I wondered where I was going wrong with the 30 or so cucumbers I got from 5 plants last year.

Worth a try.

I'm happy. I got 6 rows of spuds and another 6 of oca in over the weekend, and put peas and broad beans in today. The allotment is dug, the chard is sown. I need to sow squash and a few other things pronto but in general I'm ready to plant.

[CynicalSurvival]

I am giving up on tomatoes because they are simply not worth the investment in time, at least at my skill level. Especially as they are very cheap to buy.

I planted some nut trees last year and want to progress with perennials - apple trees, berry bushes.. Other than that, I'd like to give sweetcorn a go this year. Anyone tried sweetcorn? It strikes me that salad stuff is pretty easy to forage (or would be in an emergency) but that grain/starchy foods like potatoes and corn are needed to fill us up and would be hard to substitute. For this reason I'm going to try an heirloom variety of corn.

[featherstick]

Sweetcorn is very hungry and needs a lot of warmth. Modern F1 varieties tend to be sweeter and more adapted to the UK climate. I'm not sure how well it would do in Scotland, I get good sweetcorn in a good year in Kent.