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What are you growing for the first time this year?

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  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Hostafan1 said:
    A beard
    I tried that before, but it wasn't pretty....
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Fairygirl said:
    Hostafan1 said:
    A beard
    I tried that before, but it wasn't pretty....
    not sure mine is, but it's a lot easier than shaving
    Devon.
  • ShepsSheps Posts: 2,236
    Lettuce for me...first time I have grown anything from seed, so looking forward to giving it a try.

    Contemplating growing tomatoes as well, but not sure at the moment.
  • rowlandscastle444rowlandscastle444 Posts: 2,612
    Trying allium this year.  Lots of them.
  • bertrand-mabelbertrand-mabel Posts: 2,697
    Our son bought for a present a huge selection of seeds...veg/herbs/flowers.
    One is chinese cabbage that we have never tried so will this year as well as different squash and melons.
  • februarysgirlfebruarysgirl Posts: 835
    Lots of new things this year, predominantly annuals but the main thing is veg in containers. I'm going for potatoes, sugar snap peas, French dwarf beans, broccoli, carrots, cherry tomatoes and mini cucumbers. There's only two of us so we won't be needing a high yield fortunately. 

    Oh, and strawberries in pots.

    I'm trying not to get my hopes up but I know if I get anything less than farmer's market quality veg I'm gonna be gutted 😭😂
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    I grow brukale each year. It keeps us in greens through the winter.  It has gone from 6 "flowers" for £3 a  pop in M and S to at the weekend a bagful in Lidl for 99p.  It still didn't look as good as mine, picked, soaked in salt water and cooked within a couple of hours.  We eat a lot of home grown tomatoes in summer,  I buy very few out of season as they just don't compare.
  • WatsoniaWatsonia Posts: 134
    Lots, I love good seed catalogue. Main ones are cucumber, various interesting tomato varieties and melon. I’m also giving luffa and cobae scandens a go. And dierama pulcherrimum for the difficulty factor. I have given up on carrots and strawberries, don’t really grow very well in my garden. Oh, and I’m not growing tomato “Reisetomate” again, it did very well last year but no one wanted to eat it as it looked like a science experiment gone wrong. But I would have never known that had I not tried  :)
  • LunarSeaLunarSea Posts: 1,923
    Moving away from fruit & veg, I'm having a go at Thalictrum delavayi this year. I first saw one in someone's garden in the Buxton Garden Trail last year and was blown away. Couldn't find plants in any local GC or nurseries so I'm trying from seed. 
    Clay soil - Cheshire/Derbyshire border. 

    I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    I first grew that when Roy Lancaster said it was one of his favourite plants. It has an ethereal quality to it. It also gently seeds about a bit once established, but not in a thuggish fashion.  The single one is much better than hewitts double in my opinion.
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