Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: Stringbags on September 16, 2016, 20:27
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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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-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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No cucumbers, we don't eat enough to make it worth the effort.
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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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Carrots.
Broccoli.
Raspberries.
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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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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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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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A 35 foot double row of runners beans :nowink:
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Weeds. :lol:
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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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No Firestorm runner beans. Went from tiny to massive stringy things in no time at all not happy at all.
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Cucamelons. Red currants. Spinach.
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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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Peas. Fed up with pea weavil :mad: :mad: :mad: I'll just buy premium ones for the freezer.
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Raspberry - literally a weed and taste exactly like those from the shop.
Blueberry - don't like them and don't know why I ever planted them
Sarpo Mira potatoes - Blight proof but also garbage taste.
Pumpkin - just not worth the space they take up
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French beans instead of runner beans.
Spring onions.
That's about it really, fewer radishes, maybe some parsnips.
Cheers
Aled
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Dwarf French beans - kills my back to pick them :( so I shall stick to climbing ones
Garlic - too many months in the ground, too much rust, too susceptible to allium leaf miner and too similar to supermarket varieties (except smaller!)
Chillies - love them but we have loads in the freezer and need a year off!
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Tomatoes in Beds in the PT. Always turn out rubbish so I'm sticking to pot grown cherry toms and tumbling varieties in pots.
Almost feel like celebrating the fact that I won't ever see that jungle of tom plants again...
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Wow! Lot of cauli/callabrese dissing going on!😀
I'm love both but to be fair, I blanch & freeze and me and The Boy love greens so we eat the leaves of both also.
For me it's got to be pak choi/dim choi and Chinese cabbage - I love them but I've tried everything - envoromesh, closhes - they always end up like Swiss cheese! (And yes, like everyone I'm used to holes in my leaves but with them I'm lucky to get a bit of leaf between the holes! 😀)
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Gleavo - try putting the Pak choi on top of a shelf about waist height in a pot. The flea beetle don't seem to go that high.
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No calebrase - doesn't earn its space
No cauliflower - didn't grow any this year as the curds always turn pink or yellow before they are ready to pick
No turnip- we don't eat enough
Less maincrop potatoes - we never eat them all I cut back this year but it must be a good year for them as I have nearly as many from half the number of tubers
Less runner, French beans and courgettes- the neighbours must be hiding, I now just leave them on their doorsteps!
Fewer squashes - I have four galeaux d'esyines all weighing about nine kilos! I am thinking of making a sign to tie on to one or two of them explaining that they need a really good home and leaving them on the produce table. I still have puree in the freezer from last year. I also have a large number of urchi kuri and festival squashes another bumper year for them and I have less plants than last year😀😀😀
Maybe less tomatoes in the greenhouse, I am awash with pasta sauce and chutney!!
No strawberries mine never seem to do very well, I can put the bed to better use.
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Next year our garden is going to be an ACHOCHA free zone! Cheers, Tony
(P.S. thanks for the seeds).
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Cauliflower was my greatest failure in this, my first year of veggie growing, so I shan't bother with them again.
Jury's still out on my carrots, parsnips and leeks.
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Cauliflowers are difficult I find so if you're new to it all, it might be worth trying in a couple of years time
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I'm down to one plot so no brassicas at all due to space - the fruit side takes up the space that might otherwise be dedicated to them.
Herbs are going into pots to be outside appropriate front doors as they aren't there when chefs want them if up the allotment.
The currant bushes have come out of the back garden as it turns out that no-one in the family likes currants. Will grow dwarf sunflowers instead.
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Cauliflowers are difficult I find so if you're new to it all, it might be worth trying in a couple of years time
For caulies I'd heartily recommend the variety Walcheren - sow in May and harvest the following March/April when there are far fewer creepy crawlies around and not much else to harvest.
Forgot to add on the non growing front: achocha, cucamelon, melon, aubergine and rat tailed radish.