A link for you to look at the heritage option as opposed to F1, i use mostly heritaage varieties because I can save seed from year to year and plants adjust to local soil and growing conditions. I do use a few F1 seeds,and sweetcorn is one, haven't found a heritage variety of sweetcorn that does as ...

Thank you Oldherbacious

Thank you both for your reply, I will look up that pruning site.

Lovely pic of your grapes. I picked the last bunch of grapes from my vine today still sweet and juicy.

Does anyone have any experience with self fertile kiwi? Mine was only planted the previous year, had some blossom this year,but all the tiny fruitlets just dropped off , it's making good growth and looks healthy, wondering why the fruit dropped instead of maturing? It is near my water tap because I ...

Yummy veggies, I am struggling with pruning a very old grapevine, when we moved in the garden had been untouched for about 20 years, and was a mass of overgrown shrubs nettles and brambles, the vine had probably been put in well before that. Last year I pruned it quite hard and spur pruned the 3 lea...

Thank you Old Herbacious, I will think of you as mature and wise and experienced - not old, grins..

Last year I had self seeded cape gooseberry seedlings in autumn, overwintered in the greenhouse they gave me a nice early crop, more to use this year. Also had some autumn apple blossom, the spring blossom still gave me a good apple crop. I picked the last sweet and juicy bunch of grapes yesterday, ...

My brother visited last week, he lives in France, I live in East Sussex, he looked at my home grown onions and shallots, and said they were much better than his own at home. I think depth and fertility of soil affects results more than type planted. I have had improved results each year since changi...