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Thanks Dalesman, do nothing is always a great way to do things so I’l try that out this year. Where I live is probably milder than where you are, so hopefully, I won’t lose any. Although I do think wet is probably more of a problem than cold.
Normally it says to cut down the artichokes in autumn, I’ve never had any luck with this as they always rot. Recently I read that it is now recommended not cutting them down, does anybody have any experience with this, how would you recommend overwintering them? If one covers them, like Charles writes they do in colder climates, should one cut or not?
Hello Gautam,
on youtube there are two people who have or still farm in India. One, work with nature, farms in Kerala, if you look through his videos there is lots about compost etc. The other one, the natural farmer, is now in Sicily, but before that he also farmed in India for several years and has many videos on soil, compost, mulching etc. Good luck.
If I may, I’d like to suggest looking at the videos of the Natural Farmer (John Kaisner) on Youtube. He gardens/has a property on the northern tip of Sicily in a climate that sounds very much like yours, Giorgio. He has several videos about mulching, what kind of mulch, how to preserve and use water etc. in that very dry climate. In his experience straw gives too little protection against the soil drying out so he uses leaf mulch with great success.
Hope I haven’t stepped on any toes by suggesting this, otherwise my apologies.Hi Steve,
https://forum.charlesdowding.co.uk/learn/sowing-timeline-vegetables/ – maybe this is of some help.
Hi all,
could this be the reason why my spinach seeds are not germinating, being too old? I bought Medania from Otter Farm early this year, of 50 sown seeds 2 germinated. I thought it was probably me doing something wrong, so I made a germination test by placing some on wet paper towels for some days, no germination at all. I’ve sown again, and again have more or less the same germination rate. They are sown in good sowing compost and kept indoors on a heating mat.
Any advice would be much appreciated.Rbp – it taken a while but the plant experts have responded. They did find that without any flowers it is rather difficult to identify the plant, but one of them also thinks it’s a Cerastium – good luck with dealing with them.
Hi Rbp, it’s definitely not borage, as Cleansweep writes. I’ve sent your photo to a plant expert I know, if she comes back with an identification, I’ll let you know what she says.
I have the same problem as Clair. I’ve sown, amongst other things, spinach, radishes and turnips which have all germinated fine. They are kept indoors at around 21°C with grow-lights but are getting very leggy. So I wanted to ask Charles, where do you keep seedlings after germination and especially at what temperature? Outside is freezing, but I don’t have a frost free greenhouse only a very leaky one where it does freeze at night. And as opposed to Jacob Lockcuff we get very little sun here in winter that could warm up the green house.
My two favourites are Pimiento Padron, the Spanish “tapas pepper” which can be eaten fried. And Jimmy Nardello, originally from Italy, which is a long red sweet variety.
Thanks Udo. Oder sollte ich danke schön schreiben 🙂
I just tried looking at culinaris.de but keep getting re-rooted to a hotel internet site. Does anyone else have this problem?