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What are you growing for the first time this year?

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  • ValleysgirlValleysgirl Posts: 344
    Just the last few months we have been buying ' Chinese Cabbage' for our salads, it stays fresher longer and nice and crisp, so I have bought a packet of seed for my OH to grow and on the new flower side at last I have found a supplier for 2 pkts of Ricinus, castor oil plants like Carol Klein has in her garden. That's a start anyway
  • LoxleyLoxley Posts: 5,698
    I'm trying Liatris for the first time this year, got me a few corms from Rose Cottage Plants.
    "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour". 
  • Janie BJanie B Posts: 963
    Lots of new flowers from seed: rudbeckia, sunflowers, carnations, petunia, ageratum, amaranthus
    Lincolnshire
  • justflowersjustflowers Posts: 143
    !I am having a go at Chinese witch hazel 'Black Pearl' - partly because of the exploding  (or technically ballistic) seed dispersal but mostly because they look gorgeous
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    I grew some amaranthus from the RHS seed one year. 2015 to be exact. I know because I used it in flower arrangements for our wedding. My sister in law who was helping out in a fancy flower shop had no idea what it was. Amaranthus hypochondriacus.  She gave me ever such a funny look.    It seeds about like crazy,but it  is easy to tell because of the red leaves.  Some I leave  , some I weed out.  Apparently it is edible, but I've not been brave enough.
  • justflowersjustflowers Posts: 143
    Be brave! - but also cautious when it comes to eating plants! I don't know about Amaranthus , but growing edible flowers is another thing I'm going to have a go at this year. Day lilies are delicious - taste a bit like lettuce but better.
  • WilderbeastWilderbeast Posts: 1,415
    @Valleysgirl I grew ricinus last year I sowed 1 batch way too early and they got really leggy and kealed over dead. After advice on here I did another lot in late April that then grew into small trees, they were very eye catching in my tropical section
  • EustaceEustace Posts: 2,290
    fidgetbones said:
    I grew some amaranthus from the RHS seed one year. 2015 to be exact. I know because I used it in flower arrangements for our wedding. My sister in law who was helping out in a fancy flower shop had no idea what it was. Amaranthus hypochondriacus.  She gave me ever such a funny look.    It seeds about like crazy,but it  is easy to tell because of the red leaves.  Some I leave  , some I weed out.  Apparently it is edible, but I've not been brave enough.
    Yes, the leaves are edible and is used in South Asian cuisine.

    Oxford. The City of Dreaming Spires.
    And then my heart with pleasure fills,
    And dances with the daffodils (roses). Taking a bit of liberty with Wordsworth :)

  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Amaranth grain is delicious. Like quinoa.
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    My little birds seem to like the seedheads anyway.
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