[Bethslosttheplot]

This growin your own aint as easy as I thought... I have today obtained my first ever allotment and keen to get started so had a think about what I wanted to grow and thought "I WILL JUST ORDER SOME SEEDS!"....

Some what bewildered now owing to the 50 different varieties of sweet corn..............

Is there an idiot proof way of choosing the variety cause I still have to choose my carrots, peas, cabbage, leeks, radish, beetroot to name but a few

 :roll:

[Clampit]

A good thing to do is ask your fellow allotmenteers which varieties they have success with and grow well in your soil type. Good luck with your new venture, you'll have the hang of it in no time.

[gobs]

Check out your soil, how heavy or lose it is and read the small print in the catalogue, very important.

Also, you can search these forums, a lot of people talked about their favourites. With many things it comes down personal choice of flavour, you got to try.

[compostqueen]

growing your own is easy!  Nowt scientific or complicated about it if you don't make it so.  

Grow what you know you want to eat. That narrows it down a bit  

[fatbelly]

Click on this link for a list of Veg cultivars that have been trialed and recommended by the RHS.
www.rhs.org.uk/plants/documents/AGM2007Veg.pdf

[gus]

hi, when i started growing veg i used seed that had the rha certificate of garden merit .you find them in every seed catalogue and they have been shown in trials to grow well, have good desease resistance and are tasty varieties to eat. good luck.

[noshed]

Garden of merit - good idea. I must say I tend to sow whatever is on special offer.

[compostqueen]

I like Real Seeds cos everything in that catalogue can have seed saved from it to sow the following year