Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: senrab_nhoj on July 09, 2008, 14:09
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What would they be?.....
This is second year of serious growing in new house and first year of my allotment... thanks for all the positive comments on the pictures I posted...
I spent some great hours over the winter perusing seed catalogues online but I much prefer word of mouth from people who are 'at the coal face' and have forgotten more about gardening than I will ever learn...
So, in the same way Torres and Gerrard are the first names on my Liverpool team sheet
What are the first ten varieties on your allotment/garden plan?
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Another plastic fan. 8)
PUP!
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If we HAD to pick only 10 varieties:
Mrs sawnee would have:- spuds; beetroot :lol: :lol: :lol: ; mange-tout; carrots; onions; parsnips; raspberries; runner beans; courgettes and sweetcorn.
Mr sawnee would have:- spuds; beetroot; raspberries; carrots; french beans; sweetcorn; rhubarb; gooseberries; onions and MORE BEETROOT.
Thank God we are not restricted to only have 10!!!!!!!
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Peas - Kelvon Wonder
Spuds - Charlotte (difficult choice that).
Dwarf Beans - Purple Teepee
Caulis - Winter Walcheren
Sprouts - Peer Gynt - OK - Trafalgar as you can't get them any more!
Cabbage - Durham Early
Runner Beans - Enorma
Lettuce - Little Gem (Tough call again)
Toms - Shirley
Sweet Corn - Swift
Going to have to go without a lot just sticking to 10!!
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After a lot of deliberation, here's my top 10...
Spuds - Epicure
French Beans - Cobra
Peas - Oregon Sugar Snap
Beetroot - Boltardy
Courgette - Tuscany
Cabbage - Red Drumhead
Kale - Cavalo Nero
Lettuce - Little Gem
Globe artichokes - Green Globe
Strawberry - Pegasus
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If we HAD to pick only 10 varieties:
Mrs sawnee would have:- spuds; beetroot :lol: :lol: :lol: ; mange-tout; carrots; onions; parsnips; raspberries; runner beans; courgettes and sweetcorn.
Mr sawnee would have:- spuds; beetroot; raspberries; carrots; french beans; sweetcorn; rhubarb; gooseberries; onions and MORE BEETROOT.
Thank God we are not restricted to only have 10!!!!!!!
What varieties though....?
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Peas - Kelvon Wonder
Spuds - Charlotte (difficult choice that).
Dwarf Beans - Purple Teepee
Caulis - Winter Walcheren
Sprouts - Peer Gynt - OK - Trafalgar as you can't get them any more!
Cabbage - Durham Early
Runner Beans - Enorma
Lettuce - Little Gem (Tough call again)
Toms - Shirley
Sweet Corn - Swift
Going to have to go without a lot just sticking to 10!!
In hindsight I should have asked why too...
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Spuds Nicola
Toms Shirley
Lettuce Little Gem
Peas Hurst green shaft
Beans Cobra
Cucumber Burpless
Garlic Wilkos
Shallots Red sun
Onions Sturon
Leeks Musselburgh
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Very hard these ones. Lucky, you have your perennials. 8)
Blauhilde French bean and Tigerella tomatoes must be there as these are my girl's favourites. (I always plant either alaskan fancy or sub-artic plenty too as they tend to produce in any season.)
Cucumber Crystal apple was the only producing outdoor one last year, all the F1s pretty much died.
Root parsley, you don't get varieties in this country, I think.
Broad bean can't be out as my other half's fav veg, Aquadulce Claudia.
Can't be without peppers, Healthy.
Cauli, Leamington.
Onion, Red baron.
Pots, gotta be Charlotte.
Leek, Blue Soleil was one of those I started my seed from.
Sprouting broc, white star.
Squash, Round the Nice, large trailing one, but multi-purpose - heh, 3 in one - courgettes, marrows and also stores for a few months.
I think, I'm over the limit already and no cabbage, etc. Lucky a lot of things just self seed readily. :lol:
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Thanks for a great question; as I probably grow far too many things. I could just about manage with the following 10 if I really had to :-
Lettuce - cut and come again mix containing, Red and Green Salad Bowl, Lolo Rosso and Bianca, and Oakleaf. Plenty of variety of taste and texture and probably worth more than £60 a year at super market rates, for a serious summer salad eater.
Leeks - usually Musselborough
New Potatoes - Charlotte, Int Kidney or Arran Pilot. No shop can provide new spuds to compare with those straight from the ground.
Garlic - so much for such a small space and always nice to have something growing through the winter and which stores for 12 months.
Sweetcorn - Swift or Tasty Gold. No shop can provide sweetcorn to anywhere near that straight of the plant.
Peas - Kelvedon Wonder - just to eat from the plant.
Purple Sprouting Brocolli - very early, early and late
Tomato - Gardeners Delight or perhaps Tornado as the latter is growing so well in this typical British summer, although yet to be taste tested.
Onions - Maincrop only, probably Sturon. The slightly earlier cropping of winter onions is at a time when I don't really use onions and they do seem prone to white rot and occupy space at an awkward time.
Strawberries - Cambridge Scarlet
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I've been pondering over this one for some time, so here goes:
N01 - Potato- Got to be 'Charlotte's, the best tasting new potato IMHO
N02 - Onions - Sturon, did really well.
N03 - Cabbages - Durham Early
N04 - Runner Beans - Scarlet Emperor, Allways had these, never any problems
No5 - Broad beans - Aquadulce Claudia of course, overwinter and avoid the blackfly.
N06- Lettuce - Webb's wonderful - Boringly consistent. Give them to friends,everyone loves them.
No7 - Leeks - Musselburgh - haven't tried any other, but this werks for me.
No8. - Beetroot - Boltardy, tasty!!
No9 - Getting difficult now... Have to say Tomatoes - Gardener's Delight... consistent (apart from last years blight) and very tasty too.
No10 - Rasberries.... no strawberries.....no rasberries.... Dunno? :roll: :roll: