[LILLILEAF]

mine is onions i grew 84 from seed they all germinated,and forgot i had 50 onion sets arrived as a free be with some thing else :mellow memory not what it once was

[robinahood]

Rainbow Chard and perpetual spinach, despite the dry year and light soil they are a lush forest! They will be eaten though, I love a spinach and potato curry......

[Blewit]

Sweetcorn. The weather turned cold and windy just after I planted the first forty out and they turned very pale yellow and looked generally miserable. After a few weeks I sowed a full replacement and as soon as they went out the weather picked up and the first lot started to gain a bit of green. At least the harvest should be staggered.

[victoria park]

Summer cabbages, like Greyhound sort of thing. They all come together at once, and it isn't really a Summer food in my head, that's the problem.  I keep thinking I should grow them but half don't make it to the table and end in the compost. Red cabbages get polished off later in the year no problem, but they're a bit more exotic and have different culinary uses.
I'm thinking of putting a further couple of beds annually to green manure, to restrict my available space, so as to make me plant only that which I really want and actually eat, for want of a better word.
At the start of the season, I harbour all these perfect eating scenarios and recipes in my head, only for some to be not based in reality. 
I'm getting better at it though. I can now diss and thin surplus seedlings with impunity early on, and put perfectly formed full term specimens into the compost pile without guilt.

[Thrutchington]

Planted 140 leeks on Sunday, usually swap them for eggs and other things.

[miggs]

Shallots

I've got enough to supply a chain of French restaurants.

There's two of us....

Same here, got hundreds of them. There's only me that really eats them, wife and kids might have the odd one.

[Lottiman]

Well!!  As this is my tenth year at my plot l should know better!! ( Hanging my head in shame) This year's problem is Courgettes!!!  When will I learn  Once they germinate I just can't bring myself to bung the spare ones on the compost heap What's even funnier though are the faces that people pull if you try to give them away 

[AnneB]

I am self sufficient in lots of things now, there are only 2 of us at home, mainly garlic, shallots, broad beans, carrots, beetroot, parsnips, swede.  If I have a glut of anything and it can't be frozen or preserved I share with son and daughter and friends and neighbours and other relatives.  Nothing wasted.

[compostqueen]

Hispi and courgettes. I made a lovely couple of courgette loaves though

[Lottiman]

Ooooh Courgette tea bread!  I had almost forgotten about that one!!  Yummy...

[Growster...]

Tomatoes, but that's because my thinking is that if there are lots of plants, and blight strikes, there's a chance that we'll still get a half-decent crop - maybe one truss per plant...

[stompy]

Planted 4 corgette plants and we are now inundated with the things, around 2 every day, also Blue lake french beans, i grew 1 in the greenhouse and to be honest that 1 plant has suplied us and the neighbour with enough and now the 12 outdoor planted ones are beginning to produce 

Even our neighbour is running out of ideas for what to do with cougettes and french beans.

Ohter than that i think the other stuff is all about right. 

[Mr Dog]

Planted 4 corgette plants and we are now inundated with the things, around 2 every day, also Blue lake french beans, i grew 1 in the greenhouse and to be honest that 1 plant has suplied us and the neighbour with enough and now the 12 outdoor planted ones are beginning to produce 

Even our neighbour is running out of ideas for what to do with cougettes and french beans.

Ohter than that i think the other stuff is all about right. 

Pickle some of the beans (especially if you like piccalilli)? Search for runner bean pickle and substitute the runners with the French beans.

[madcat]

It is when I don't get the successional sowing right that it really gets embarrassing. For example, the chinese leaves were lovely and starting to heart, and then all went to seed together in a week.   As did the all the year round lettuce.
   The pakchoi are threatening the same thing, and the chard are watching with interest.

PS  you can never have too many onions.  Or shallots.  Think of a lovely boeuf bourguignon, with sweet shallots in the sauce, or roasted round the joint or caramelised in a tart with goats cheese .. Have I got you drooling yet?   

[Lardman]

The pakchoi are threatening the same thing, and the chard are watching with interest.

The red pak choi I have is holding really well and it's still in the GH  , just wish I could find a use for it    the chard bolted weeks ago and that was outside.