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Hi, I am new to this site and just wondered if anyone had any advice on what herbs and vegetables to plant in a shady spot. Hi! I'm new to this site too. It's good, isn't it? Not sure about vegetables - we had a very shady garden before we moved to our current house and allotment and never really h...

JustinFun wrote: I would *love* to grow our own edememe, but have never seen seeds for sale anywhere.

Nevermind - should have googled before posting:
http://www.gardenorganic.org.uk/todo_no ... php?id=101

I am now extremely excited - just have to find room for even more beans in our allotment!
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I have been trying to find seeds to grow the big beer radishes you get in Germany. I have found a variety of white radish "radish daikon mooli minowase" and have decided to give it a go.... Has anyone grown this, and if so, was it a success? I grew Daikon last year as my wife and I are Ja...

Hiya Justin Fun - welcome to the Ishers! Your nettle soup sounds delicious - but where on earth are you? Nettles are only just peeping out of the ground here... Thanks! I think I'm going to like it here. We're in Gillingham, Kent - nettles are about a foot high. Everything seems early this year - '...

Here's our take on recycled raised beds:

http://picasaweb.google.com/justin.fun/Garden

And before you ask, we didn't drink them all ourselves!

I've been meaning to try this for ages, and as a patch of nettles at the far end of our allotment was looking particularly succulent last weekend I took the plunge. I used the recipe from 'Food for Free' (basically onion, a few handfulls of nettles, couple of potatoes, veg stock and some grated nutm...