What are you not going to grow next year?

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Re: What are you not going to grow next year?
« Reply #15 on: September 19, 2016, 13:43 »
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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Re: What are you not going to grow next year?
« Reply #16 on: September 19, 2016, 14:40 »
French beans instead of runner beans.
Spring onions.
That's about it really, fewer radishes, maybe some parsnips.
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Re: What are you not going to grow next year?
« Reply #17 on: September 20, 2016, 23:50 »
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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Re: What are you not going to grow next year?
« Reply #18 on: September 21, 2016, 09:35 »
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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Re: What are you not going to grow next year?
« Reply #19 on: September 25, 2016, 20:43 »
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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Re: What are you not going to grow next year?
« Reply #20 on: September 26, 2016, 08:52 »
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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Re: What are you not going to grow next year?
« Reply #21 on: September 26, 2016, 11:34 »
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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Re: What are you not going to grow next year?
« Reply #22 on: September 26, 2016, 11:55 »
Next year our garden is going to be an ACHOCHA free zone!  Cheers,  Tony

(P.S. thanks for the seeds).
I may be growing OLD, but I refuse to grow UP !

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Re: What are you not going to grow next year?
« Reply #23 on: September 30, 2016, 23:41 »
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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Re: What are you not going to grow next year?
« Reply #24 on: October 01, 2016, 17:16 »
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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Re: What are you not going to grow next year?
« Reply #25 on: October 01, 2016, 17:50 »
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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Re: What are you not going to grow next year?
« Reply #26 on: October 01, 2016, 17:51 »
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.
« Last Edit: October 01, 2016, 17:53 by Mr Dog »



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