holly cabbage and bendy carrots

More like a question, Bogwitch, but we're flexible. I know of a couple of organic remedies for holey cabbage, but I have heard that they aren't available in the UK: spinosad and Bacillus thuringiensis kurstakii. Twisted and forked carrots are usually caused by too much rock or organic matter in the soil. Carrots like a lean, sandy, well sifted soil. The shorter kinds, such as 'Royal Chantenay', or 'Thumbelina', can take adverse soil better. I don't know what "nobbles" are, but many kinds of cukes have spines when they are growing, then get warts as they get older. There may be nothing wrong with them.

thanks for adv i think my nobbles r your spines im glad i havent cut them down now i no u can still eat them thise is my first year having an allotment im still trying to find diferent things to grow so its all trial and error but mostly error for me

That's how I learned! I think I've killed at least one of everything I know how to grow.

We are growing sweet potatoes. They haven't flowered yet. They like lots of water to get established at first and don't like the cold. will keep you posted on how they do!

that would be great i heard there r two types a vine and an earth like to no how u get on where u planted an when how long do u have to wait bf harvesting them thanx

Sweet Potatoes don't need to flower to produce, but the tubers don't swell until the nights are getting short. We usually harvest them here in late October, but I would be surprised if you could wait that long in the UK! There are probably varieties that do better in cool climates, but I don't know which ones they are.

IS THER DIFRENT TYPS OF SWEET POT I HEARD THAT SOME GROW ON A VINE OR IS SOMONE ON MY ALLOTMENT PULLING MY LEG

All the sweet potatoes that I have grown have been a more or less bushy vine. We normally just let them sprawl over the soil, but you can grow them up a trellis. Sometimes that interferes with mounding soil over the stems, though, depending on the situation.