Only just realised this thread is in the fruit and veg topic, duh!
Grow again: OGC spicy green salad leaves, Paris round carrot (only one I ever successfully grew, delicious roasted whole with baby beets), the trouper aquadulce broad bean, sugar snap peas of any variety, charlotte and pink fir salad potatoes, gardeners delight, sungold and lyla cerisette cherry toms - all deliciously intense and sweet - if I can ever successfully grow a tom again.
Never again: chiltern’s fiery red salad leaves (bitter), little kitten spinach (disappointing) parsnips (never germinate), celeriac (too hot here to get them going, probably also applies to parsnips).
Am increasingly going back to old favourites as every time I try a new variety I think, yeah, but it’s not as good as...
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
My six tomato plants are looking ok. They are in B&Qs big black buckets with holes in the bottom. Yes I could just buy them but I like doing it. It makes me feel like a real gardener. . i had about one year when the plants went blue with cold and shrivelled away. They are up against the house wall which is south facing and they get the heat radiating from the wall.
More Aquilegias for me,different colours,such nice tempered flowers. There's something nice about growing your own tomatoes,but I agree,they are just as good from Sainsburys,and a lot less hassle.More runner beans,but NOT Moonlight!
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@Mark56 I couldn't disagree more about strawberries. I really enjoyed mine this year and they're probably the biggest difference in taste between what you grow and what you buy in the supermarket.
Picked my garlic (Germidour) this afternoon and they look really good. Hope they taste good too.
Waiting to see if the carrot fly have done their thing this year, and if they have it'll probably be the last time I bother, as they really are cheap in the supermarket.
“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.” Winston Churchill
No more kohlrabi for me. I grew them last year and finished the seed packet off this year. What didn't split in the ground had their leaves savaged by pigeons this year. After netting them, I raised enough for one meal and one freezer batch, but to be honest all that stuff about lovely nutty taste etc... just taste like underdone potatoes to me and I've tried roasting, steaming, raw and pureed for soup. And - as my post on Broad Beans - won't be doing that again except maybe to use the packet up in a quiet corner of the garden.
No more Burpees Golden courgette... just a waste of space. I grew them last year but got bad mildew. Grown again this year and plant is fine, but not very productive compared to the other variety I’ve grown.
Will grow Ammi Majus, pink snapdragons, blue cornflowers and white cosmos again. Wont be growing aquilegias (poor germination) echium (decided I don't like them)
It's best to plant ammi in August, says Sarah Raven. It's the only way to get strapping plants. I will be trying it. My spring planted ones are pretty pathetic this year. I was hoping for 1.2m+
More beetroot - started off in module trays I think the are Diva - fantastic crop last year and this. On our 39th year growing courgettes (they were rare back then), so easy to grow too. We have given up with the cherry trees - we grow them strictly for the birds.
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Grow again: OGC spicy green salad leaves, Paris round carrot (only one I ever successfully grew, delicious roasted whole with baby beets), the trouper aquadulce broad bean, sugar snap peas of any variety, charlotte and pink fir salad potatoes, gardeners delight, sungold and lyla cerisette cherry toms - all deliciously intense and sweet - if I can ever successfully grow a tom again.
Never again:
chiltern’s fiery red salad leaves (bitter), little kitten spinach (disappointing) parsnips (never germinate), celeriac (too hot here to get them going, probably also applies to parsnips).
Am increasingly going back to old favourites as every time I try a new variety I think, yeah, but it’s not as good as...
Yes I could just buy them but I like doing it. It makes me feel like a real gardener.
They are up against the house wall which is south facing and they get the heat radiating from the wall.
'You must have some bread with it me duck!'
There's something nice about growing your own tomatoes,but I agree,they are just as good from Sainsburys,and a lot less hassle.More runner beans,but NOT Moonlight!
Can't be bothered with raspberries or strawberries anymore.