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Growing your own vegetables is great fun and now you can share your experiences and tips.

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Comment by Peter Woolnough on March 14, 2012 at 20:43: Just noticed this pop into my inbox, and thought of you all here.

http://www.theediblegardenshow.co.uk/

16th -18th March at Stoneleigh Park, Warwickshire

Comment by Bigyin on December 16, 2011 at 12:58: I've had a really bad year with veggies all in all this year. The rabbits have been even more voracious than ever (still working on the new Camp Bastion veg patch). Another disappointment was the onions which had bull necks. I've read that it's either too much Nitrogen (I didn't feed them at all) or that the seeds were planted too deep. I bought them as plugs from a local grower. Could the "seed too deep" problem have been carried over. Any comments appreciated as onions aren't usually a problem.

Comment by Phil Voice on September 25, 2011 at 21:26: Hi Pete

I've only just noticed your Jack Hargreaves tying onions video.

I did a video on tying onions a while back - just noticed it's been viewed over 10,000 times.

Comment by pete on September 25, 2011 at 20:52: You've really got to hand it to this guy... growing his own wheat on his allotment to make his own bread..

Comment by pete on June 3, 2011 at 21:58: I think I've got the other half of this episode somewhere – where he takes us through the growing of a bed of big onions and then in his kitchen he stuffs one with a fatty kidney, puts the two halves back together, wraps in bacon rashers pinned with sausage sticks and bakes – his 'kidney onions'

Comment by Eric Walker on April 25, 2011 at 17:48: I've never been so early with the garden, everything set except runner beans, even main crop potatoes through & marrows a foot high (300mm). I just hope we don't have a late frost. Very dry but we had a shower Saturday.

Useing the hose pipe, I'm pleased I'm not on a meter.

I like the box Phil.I'm a peasent myself, make instead of buy but its bad for trade.

Comment by Dan Frazer Gardening on April 25, 2011 at 14:03: I have been busy with my veg, got peas, beans, beetroot, leeks, tatties, leafs, etc all in the ground and growing vigorously. The parsley and tarragon beds from last year have come up very nicely and I have a crop of fresh herbs to join them. The asparagus bed is full with spears 3ft high (not picking this year) and around 35 strawberries and 20 runners potted up from last year's crop are growing like mad too.

Several soft fruit bushes plus the young apple and plum tree are getting nice and leafy too. I love having fresh veg at home!

Oh, and the greenhouse has 30 young tomato plants grown from seed from an M&S 'santini' cherry tomato... these things taste so good it hurts!

Comment by Phil Voice on April 25, 2011 at 8:34: Hi Marie

I'm sorry it's a bit late...didn't see your comment.

I have to admit - because of work and a bit of travelling - I'm well behind this year. I've only planted 12 lettuce, six tomato and about 30 garlic.

The garlic are also very dry (and were planted late) so I'm not expecting a bumper crop. (it's been so dry here and I've been reluctant to lavish water on the veg and only hand watered the lettuce and tomatoes.)

Spent a bit of time in my workshop yesterday and knocked up this garlic and onion storage box out of scrap oak.

The air holes are randomly drilled - it's the kind of naively hand-made item you'd find in a Lot et Garonne farmhouse - people were so poor they made much of their furniture, fittings and utensils by hand with what was lying around.

Comment by Marie Waterhouse on March 15, 2011 at 12:02: Love the pic Philip. I have opposite soil problem - ours is very sandy and free draining. I add loads of mulch on top which slowly rots down and keeps the weeds down as well - Just like Charles Dowding told me to ! Am very late getting going with it all this year.

Comment by Phil Voice on March 15, 2011 at 11:58: I've rather belatedly started to prepare my raised veg borders.

I stripped the weed (got a chickweed problem now from some contaminated compost last year) did a deep dig and turned the soil over.

I then did a heavy dressing of sharp sand to try and keep the soil open and inhibit compaction - my soil can go down rock hard in summer.