2016 - the Challenge and Experiments threads

[vixylix]

my experiment is going to be moving the jungle that is my back garden, to someone else's back garden, then to my new back garden

Other than that, I'm experimenting with seed saving this year - I'm keenly watching for the potato berries to ripen at the moment!

[vixylix]

oh and will report back on the first two when harvested!

[Bigmallly]

"If" I remember as you know what it's like when you are getting old, I'm gonna have a bash at Perennial Beans so all the ones I have grown this year will be cut back to ground level & mulched. I know it works undercover as I have a few rogues from last year but want to see if they will regrow outside.

[Penellype]

Update on the mint experiment, trying to deter wasps from eating strawberries by putting a mint plant in the middle of the strawberry pots.

It didn't work. After a promising start when the wasps ignored half-ripe strawberries, once the fruit began to ripen the wasps moved in and ate them. I even found wasps sitting on the mint leaves.