What are you not going to grow next year?

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What are you not going to grow next year?
« on: September 16, 2016, 20:27 »
What veg have you fallen out with?

I am not growing broccolli/calebrase again, it takes too much room up for too little return and you can miss the right time to crop in hours. My turnips constantly let me down and I know some of you will be appalled, but I am getting rid of all of my soft fruit bar the strawberries.

No more redcurrents, blackcurrents, gooseberries and raspberries, they take too much room up for the space that they take and raspberries run like weeds.

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Re: What are you not going to grow next year?
« Reply #1 on: September 16, 2016, 22:23 »
-No Broccoli
-No salsola (decided this a few years back but tried it again this year)
-No wizards beans except as a green manure-prefer the taste of broad beans
-No Caulis-only made a half-hearted attempt this year anyhow.

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Re: What are you not going to grow next year?
« Reply #2 on: September 17, 2016, 09:08 »
No cucumbers, we don't eat enough to make it worth the effort.

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Re: What are you not going to grow next year?
« Reply #3 on: September 17, 2016, 10:45 »
Jerusalem artichokes - growing like weeds last year (my first on this plot).  I think I've finally cleared them now.
Calabrese.
Romanesco - two plants experimentally last year and they did well.  They bolted this year.

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Re: What are you not going to grow next year?
« Reply #4 on: September 17, 2016, 11:09 »
Carrots.
Broccoli.
Raspberries.
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Re: What are you not going to grow next year?
« Reply #5 on: September 17, 2016, 11:22 »
Main crop potatoes-slugs
Romenesco-too much space for a diddling head
Turnip-hate them
Sorrel-too strong
Cucumelon-I am the only one who eats them and they take up too much space
Melon-Really, one melon for all that effort?
Indoor cucumber-F1 female plant but bitter fruits.
Summer brocolli-too much effort prefer sprouting brocolli
Too many cabbages-six is plenty for the entire year

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Re: What are you not going to grow next year?
« Reply #6 on: September 17, 2016, 13:55 »
Jerusalem artichokes - growing like weeds..  I think I've finally cleared them now.

I've been saying that for 7 seasons now  :mad: and they're still there.   :(

Off to the big compost bin in the sky this year.

Thornless backberry : Waste of space, doesn't ripen properly and the odd berry I've saved from the vermin are bitter.
Summer Raspberry Canes : I've managed 1 good crop off these in 5 years. If Im not untangling the bindweed from them I'm pulling out suckers from the raised beds.
Garlic : No allium leaf miner this year but after 6 months in the ground the bulbs were smaller than the cloves I planted.
Gala Apple : It's is to apples what a cheese sandwich made with mild cheddar and white sliced supermarket value bread is to lunch. There's nothing wrong with it - but there's nothing right either.
Bramley Apple : It's a tip bearing decease magnet. I thought I could tame it, I was wrong.
Beans (broad/runner/french) : Try as I might they just wont grow properly in my sand pit.  :(
Half the asparagus bed, the novelty has worn off and they just taste green anyway.

On their last written warning
Rhubarb crowns - just 500g off 3 crowns this year. They were struggling in the sand pit anyway but being covered by next doors overhanging laylandii makes things just too dry for them.


I'll be growing a lot more lawn next season  ::)

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juvenal

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Re: What are you not going to grow next year?
« Reply #7 on: September 17, 2016, 15:54 »
Sweet corn will be under consideration for the sack on my allotments.

It grew well, but squirrels stripped the cobs the moment it is ripe.

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Re: What are you not going to grow next year?
« Reply #8 on: September 17, 2016, 16:56 »
A 35 foot double row of runners beans :nowink:
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Christine

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Re: What are you not going to grow next year?
« Reply #9 on: September 18, 2016, 17:22 »
Weeds.  :lol:

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Re: What are you not going to grow next year?
« Reply #10 on: September 18, 2016, 20:13 »
Weeds.  :lol:

I wish! LOL

Any form of achocha, cucamelons, spiny melons or weird cucumber relatives that grown into massive amounts of foliage and not enough fruit to make them worth the bother, or we don't actually even like them
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Re: What are you not going to grow next year?
« Reply #11 on: September 18, 2016, 20:24 »
 No Firestorm runner beans. Went from tiny  to massive stringy things in no time at all not happy at all.

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Re: What are you not going to grow next year?
« Reply #12 on: September 18, 2016, 23:21 »
Cucamelons. Red currants. Spinach.

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Re: What are you not going to grow next year?
« Reply #13 on: September 18, 2016, 23:36 »
Cauliflower as no matter how covered they are, still full of caterpillars.
Less turnips as don't eat as many as grow.
Dug up blackcurrant bushes so only keeping 2 as never get chance to pick them all.
Going to try and fence in raspberries as they spread horribly.
Will try sweetcorn again as managed a few cobs this year which is more than zero last year  :D
 
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Re: What are you not going to grow next year?
« Reply #14 on: September 19, 2016, 10:12 »
Peas.  Fed up with pea weavil  :mad: :mad: :mad:  I'll just buy premium ones for the freezer. 
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