Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: MJS on March 27, 2011, 20:38
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Part of the joy of growing my own, is being able to choose from such a wide variety of vegetables and fruit. Each year I like to try something new. Last year moonbeam squash (patty pans) caught my eye, and it was interesting watching them develop. This year, I'm going to try Sweetcorn. A bit more mundane perhaps, but just as interesting for me. more. :D
What are you trying this year ? :unsure:
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I love trying new stuff, this year I have loads to try!
I'm doing about 10 varieties of chillis thanks to the seed swap (choc habs, white habs, peach habs, pretty in purple, hot banana, and a couple of others) few more toms (beams yellow pear and purple krips I think it is), few beans (tiger eye, roquefort and another) and some squash, again through the seed swap (warted hubbard, crown prince, spaghetti squash, table ace, and a few others which again I have forgot!). Have also just put some jerusalem artichokes, oh and 10 salad blue potatoes!
Keep me busy!
Thats the best thing about GYO, growing stuff you can't get in the supermarkets!
steve
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i have patty pan squash to try this year , last year i tried around 8 veriety of spuds but this year im doing loads of tomato's to see what i get best results with :)
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sweetcorn is fantastic!
trying mushrooms this year my self :ohmy:
i like a challenge each year also
tried hunter squash last season that was wicked
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I like to try and do something new each year - either a variety I've not done before or even a completely new veg.
I failed so badly last year with my pepino plants I'm trying them again but Im still looking for something new this year.
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I love trying new stuff, this year I have loads to try!
Keep me busy!
Thats the best thing about GYO, growing stuff you can't get in the supermarkets!
steve
I agree, there's so much out there. You have given me some more ideas. ::)
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I try a new tomato (at least one, anyway ::) ) and new pumpkins every year.
This year I am growing tall peas for the first time :)
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Im a bit pushed for space so i only grow what we know we like, i would love to try growing some unusual stuff though.
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New type of tomato, peppers, chillis and aubergines (hopefully) because I have a greenhouse this year!!!
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I always try something new. Last years was a variety of carrot sized radish (Pink Dragon) went really well. This year in addition to my standard runners I'm trying borlotti beans and as I had a poor result growing toms in growbags I am also going to try hanging basket toms.
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also i am trying aubergines this year, heard they need lots of heat and very rich soil, ie manure and loads of it, am i right??
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I grow mine in multipurp and feed them with tomato food ;) but yes they do like it warm 8)
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I think part of the joy of GYO is you can choose from a wide range. So, I also have a couple of 'experiments' each season. This year it's black beauty aubergines and roma plum toms.
slightly off topic ???- but I also like to try new planting methods too. for me, this year it's carrots in a barrel last year was loo rolls for almost everything - worked a treat
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I think part of the joy of GYO is you can choose from a wide range. So, I also have a couple of 'experiments' each season. This year it's black beauty aubergines and roma plum toms.
slightly off topic ???- but I also like to try new planting methods too. for me, this year it's carrots in a barrel last year was loo rolls for almost everything - worked a treat
There are some great names for different varieties of plants :D
My lottie neighbour grows carrots in a barrel too. She says the carrot fly can't get them there. :unsure:
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Watercress in an old stone sink this year.
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Watercress in an old stone sink this year.
Melons, just to find out how far I can push my luck with my first-ever greenhouse, and sweet potatoes because I was feeling left out of Trillium's "sweet potato" threads! :lol:
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new things im trying here are tall peas, chilli and a few diffrent tomatoes oh and pepers , dont expect much to go right as pretty new to gardening but im enjoying it :D
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Practically everything is new for me, because we only started our garden last year, and it was too late in the season to do much.
But I'm looking forward to growing varieties and types of veggies that you can't get in the shops. I did get some swiss chard, kohl rabi and land cress in last year, and will do them again.
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It's only my second proper year, so a lot is new to me, but things I'm trying for the first time in addition to last year are:
Brussels Sprouts (red and green)
Red Cabbage
Yellow Pear Tomatoes, Beefsteak tomatoes
Sweetheart Melon
And I've not sown them yet, but I will be trying minipop sweetcorn, florence fennel for the area after my spuds come out, some ugly looking white courgettes, petty pan squash (moonbeam) and a pumpkin.
There's probably more ...
::)
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I`m trying celeriac and swiss chard to see if they pass the OH`s taste test.
I grew squashes two years ago, but that was a big no no.
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Trying just 3 pink fir apple potatoes this year to go along with my charlotte. Tried them as exclusive variety 3 years ago but the whole lot got wiped out by blight. Hope to get a taste at least - are they really as good as many peolple say?
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I am growing sea kale this year, the seed as just germinated. I always choose at least one new tomato variety and I am going to have a go at grafting a few of my heritage varieties.
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I do try to grow a few things I have never grown before: this year I am growing kale, kumquats and spaghetti squash
Last year I tried asaparagus peas instead of the usual peas (which I always found to a bit tedious as a vegetable but grew them as partner loves them). Never again: they looked pretty but were really a most unpleasant flavour. I thought it was just me, and a neighbour gave me some of hers: still vile.
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Interesting to read about the asparagus pea as it was something I'd like to try one day. I have several "experiments" every year, from trying out new varieties (including what supermarket dried pulses or saved seed from produce will grow), new types of crops from proper suppliers, soil preparation techniques, planting and growing methods. If they are failures, I just look at it as experience, and if I don't like what I've grown, then I won't be growing them again.
This year I'm definitely going all out to grow melons - for the life of me I cannot get to grips with them and yet usually I do very well with cucumbers, courgettes, summer squashes and winter squashes. So this is the year that will decide whether I ever try again. New crops/varieties for this year - parsley roots, yin yan beans, borlotti beans, Willemsburger swede, Almero leeks and lots of different winter squash and 5 different melon varieties (surely at least one of them has to do well!!) :lol:
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I am getting to try growing lots of new things because I am looking after my sister's raised beds. I am growing cauli's, romanesco, brocolli, brussel sprouts, and golden beetroot. I always try a new tomato variety each year too.
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Trying far too many types of chilli - will not have room for them all if they come up. Also trying tomatillos and a new type of squash.
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Peppers, okra, squash and a giant pumpkin (fingers crossed).
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Long pink banana squash & tomatoes that are supposed to look like strawberries :)
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So many things I've never heard of, so many ideas :D what type of tomatoes look like strawberries?
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Well having got sucked into the Victoriana Nursery website after a delve through the weird and wonderful from The Real Seed Company I have a host of oddities to try - chinese celery (dwarf so can be pot grown), a type of burdock grown in Italy as a veg and Achocha which looks like a mini spiny cucumber but tastes (aparently) like green peppers when fried. I'm such a sucker for novelty ::) :lol:
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Tomatoes that are strawberry shaped are a Suttons packet called Tomatoberry Garden F1 that I chanced upon for 50 pence up the market (and still in date)
Will report with pics if they come to fruition!
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Tomatoes that are strawberry shaped are a Suttons packet called Tomatoberry Garden F1 that I chanced upon for 50 pence up the market (and still in date)
Will report with pics if they come to fruition!
good luck with those :D
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New this year is sweetcorn and butternut squash and calabrese.
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Just gone through my vast array of seed packets again. Found two varieties of Chinese cabbage, Wong Bok and Yuki. Never grown Chinese cabbage before.
Also new this year, broccoli Romanesco, brussels sprout Petit Posy, Brokali Apollo F1, all T&M, and spring onion Shimonita.
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I'm only into my second year as a vegetable grower as well.. Think i've bitten off too much though, almost everything I have is new to me lol!! :D
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Yes we do.
The final decesion is down to my little cabbage patch kid, I will give her a short list of fun things to grow and she decides.
Over the years we have grown purple carrots, purple caulis, all sorts of squash, last years was apple cucumber.
This year I talked her into Brukale, this is supposed to be a cross between Sprouts and Kale, I have an invisible source that prevents me from growing sprouts, its become a yearly challenge with other plot holders, I will invite one person to grow 3 plants, every one so far has failed and no one knows why so this cross hopefully will work.
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This year it's a tomato, heritage yellow stuffer, cos I like stuffed tomatoes. Also mini bell peppers. OH has bought some ornamental gourds, but I don't know where he thinks he will plant them! :D
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I love trying new things each year - usually a different variety of tomato - but with my new plot lots of it's new:
pumpkin, sweetcorn, courgette, radish.....
I'm going to have a go at chilli peppers and bell peppers, I reckon if I plant them against a south facing brick wall painted black then I'll have a kind of storage heater system going on that hopefully will get them to ripen before October!! (of course that's if we get the sun...) ::)
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This year it's a tomato, heritage yellow stuffer, cos I like stuffed tomatoes. Also mini bell peppers. OH has bought some ornamental gourds, but I don't know where he thinks he will plant them! :D
I am trying those - they are on my window ledge - have you had germination yet
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another something new for me - globe artichokes sown at the weekend :D
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brocolli, cauliflower and brussel sprouts
then next year?
if failed this year brocolli, cauliflower and brussel sprouts.... again :lol:
and maybe chilli's but will try some of the different varieties of seeds of Franchi seeds from "seeds of Italy" - need to more research into their range 8)
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This year it's a tomato, heritage yellow stuffer, cos I like stuffed tomatoes. Also mini bell peppers. OH has bought some ornamental gourds, but I don't know where he thinks he will plant them! :D
I am trying those - they are on my window ledge - have you had germination yet
Yes, everything has germinated, though the gourds are only about 75% and there are only five peppers, can't remember how many pepper seeds were in the packet, probably not many. The toms will need pricking out next weekend. :)
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I've also added a bit more to my list. Aubergine, broad beans and mini sweetcorn. :D
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pak choi
Grew a few last year and they were easy peasy.
Husband loves cooking stir fry in his Wok so I am experimenting with different varieties I will let you know how we fare.