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next year? You're lucky you even got some fruit!! Mine went without a fruit in sight. Help!! I should have said (06/08/07 above) mine are in bottomless pots outside in 3 grow bags with 1 litre upside down, bottomless tonic bottles in the bags to get

will struggle to get much fruit to ripen before the cold sets in.   But if they don't all ripen, they'll make marvellous chutney, and we like them sliced and fried with bacon. Also, put green tomatoes in a brown paper bag with a ripe banana and they'll ripen

I wondered if anyone else uses the beautiful tall structural plant cephalaria in their wild life gardens. They have large pale lemon scabious type flowers and bees just love them, often several bees seem attracted to just one flower head. I grow

for growing in the greenhouse. Plant in large containers and water well.Unusual fruit varietiesBanana 'Dwarf Cavendish'This is the hardiest, most reliable and heaviest cropping fig in northern Europe.Fig 'Brown Turkey'A high yielding outdoor variety that also

but they are still green should I pick them and put them in a bowl with a banana to see if they will ripen? I too am relatively new to raspberry growing having moved to a house which has them in the garden. I have some very large rasps with thorny stems

too. Cordylines do well in their garden. Bamboo isnt realy a tropical plant but creates a tropical look and can handle cold weather. Ferns another tropical looking plant that can handle colder weather & of course Hostas.  Bananas Musa species Musa

traditional plants. I always grow Shirley Tomatoes and Gardeners Delight-you can always depend on them for taste and results. This year tried 2 new varieies-yellow pear shape, very disappointing, and Matina which I will definitely be growing again next year

.I have also had the Banana plants which have also grown outside.I have plants that grow side of pond which are not meant grow outside and one is in books as a house plant only.I have also grow Drosera binata from Australia and Drosera capensis which comes

with the inside sown ones by the time we get them hardened off. My motto is try it and see seeds don't grow in the packet so sow them and hope for the best even if you are a bit late. Good luck. I think the kids should have a place on the show as sometimes theyre

toms & peppers (in a propagator) relatively late, i.e. mid-April, then housing them in the greenhouse till the end of May (I grow lots for a village plant sale). BUT this year, they've not grown strongly and are so TINY, I may only be able to charge 25p