Without a doubt the vegetable I am asked the most questions about is the tomato what makes this interesting is in fact the tomato is technically a fruit.
The commonest question is
“why dont tomatoes I buy taste like they used to ?”
and the short answer is they are are most likely a variety whose breeding program was designed to meet numerous criteria but “taste” wasn’t high on that list
Growing your own is the best way to rediscover those tastes and the film below shows you how to start your seeds
Broad Beans are one of the most useful crops we can grow, they fill a gap in the garden over winter when little else is growing and the beans germinate at lower temperatures than even grass starts to grow at in spring. This means that we can plant them as early as February and continue to start them off and plant them right up until May, this method gives us a continuance of cropping.
One of the other great things about growing broad beans is like all legumes they fix nitrogen into the soil and this allows us to increase the soil fertility for a follow-on crop which makes them perfect to sow in a bed before nitrogen hungry summer crops.
Blueberries have become deservedly popular they not only taste great and are so much better when allowed to ripen on the bushes.They also make wonderful garden plants with dramatic Autumn colour.
Blueberries can be grow in the garden but they do require a PH of below 5.5 so if your garden grows great Camellias or Rhododendrons they will be fine.
I grow them in containers and as you can use Ericaceouscompost this overcomes one of the commonest problems which alkaline soil and try to water them with rainwater which also helps.
They have great health benefits as they are full of cancer-fighting antioxidants and recent studies in the USA at Florida State University have shown blueberries can also have a really positive effect on reducing high blood pressure.
If you would like to plant Blueberries in the ground its exactly the same way as Gooseberries This film show how
I get a lot of questions here at Learn How To Garden from subscribers and viewers. I had an interesting one recently from Brandon thats very timely .
Here’s Brandon’s question:
“I have a few questions about the Vitopod propagator. Do you still use it? How long have you had it? Have you noticed any changes in it over the time you’ve had it? Does it still work as well as the day you purchased it?
I get a lot of questions here at Learn How To Garden from subscribers and viewers. I had an interesting one recently from Chin. Here’s Chin’s question: “I just watched your video about container-grown figs. Is it alright to keep a fig tree permanently in, say, an 18-inch container rather than repot it into ever larger ones every couple of years? Thank you.”
