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What are you growing for the first time this year?

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  • WelshwindyhillsWelshwindyhills Posts: 58
    I’m going to try growing ornamental ginger this year.  Such wonderful flowers!  I love growing cannas and bananas already and am all set for dividing them.  I keep them in pots rather than in the ground and once they’ve got going, I move them in the borders and on the patio.  I keep hoping they’ll attract hummingbirds but as I live in S Wales this is probably very unlikely!! I just love exotic plants.  By the time I’ve divided them I should have about 30 or so, the more the merrier! 
  • bertrand-mabelbertrand-mabel Posts: 2,697
    Blue poppy! Tried for so many years and only once got a growth.
    So this year we are trying Sweet corn that we haven't grown for decades as we had badgers...they love corn.
    Decided to try this year.
    Figures crossed.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    bertrand-mabel said:
    Blue poppy! Tried for so many years and only once got a growth so this year we are trying sweet corn.
    :D
  • BigladBiglad Posts: 3,265
    I've got raspberries and loganberries for the first time this year.

    I'm also going to try growing a few new things from seed. The free GW seed packets will influence that heavily. Definitely rudbeckia.
    East Lancs
  • REMF33REMF33 Posts: 731
    I  thought I might revive this thread, for inspiration...
    Is anyone planning to grow anything new to them?
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I bought some dahlia seeds. I don't usually do them from seed, but there's a chap not far from me who had a great display in his front garden last year, and it made me think of doing it.
    I may regret it though - no idea where I'll put them!
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Spinach and Kale although my daughter reckons Kale is horrible. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • REMF33REMF33 Posts: 731
    I just made a rather nice ribollita which uses kale. It is supposed to be very good for you. I rather like home made Kale crisps.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    That’s what I thought,  worth a try, if it doesn’t work,  nothing lost. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    A beard
    Devon.
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