Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: surbie100 on November 26, 2015, 13:31
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Yes it's a bit early - but what new things are you planning for next season?
After Snoop's reviews I'm going to give Dunluce spuds a go, and am planning a Japanese squash trial - as many as I can get my hands on. So far I have Black Futsu, Chirimen, Kikuza, Shishigatani - Santa may deliver a couple of others. ;)
And cauliflowers. I WILL grow a proper cauli in 2016.
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I've been told cauliflower (done once well, once badly), butternut squash and pumpkins!
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I'm not growing main crop spuds any more, which frees up a big bed, but I am going to try a few salad spuds in pots, Anya or Pink Fir Apple, I've not grown either before - I'll see which I can get in Wilko in the New Year.
I'm thinking - more beans in the empty bed, which ones to try though? :unsure:
I've got a few more new squash to try as well, Mandan, Pattison's Panache, Table Queen and Buffy Ball - so much juggling to fit everything into the plan! :lol: :lol:
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and Buffy Ball
Is that my fault :blush: I did go on about them a bit :D
At the moment, its looking very restrained my end regarding new things. I have the chicory that Surbie sent me, a large round courgette that a plot neighbour grew this year called Tondo di Piacenza and a bush tomato called The Amateur. The courgette was prolific and I got given several, despite my protests that I had courgettes of my own. They turned out to be so tasty I fed mine to the chickens and ate these instead every chance I got :lol:
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^^^^ err could be :dry:
:lol:
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I'm waiting to see what comes in the seed swap.
I'm going to try growing some physalis outdoors, I like them but they take up a lot of room in the greenhouse. The problem I suspect will be getting them to ripen.
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New varieties of potatoes and dwarf French beans, but am going to grow some courgettes as OH is now into making Ratatouille which he batch-freezes.
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Haven't decided on anything new yet, but have decided what I won't be growing. This year it's dwarf French beans. They join the ranks of spring onions and aubergines, these things I've stopped growing because they just won't grow for me. Anyone else have certain veg that just don't do well for them?
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I am trying
banana shallots from seed.
Onions from seed after seeing posts on here.
Tall main crop peas
To get tomatoes to ripen in June by sowing the seeds of a dwarf variety in January/ February just a couple of plants as a trial.
One final last go at growing a full size melon
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Haven't decided on anything new yet, but have decided what I won't be growing. This year it's dwarf French beans. They join the ranks of spring onions and aubergines, these things I've stopped growing because they just won't grow for me. Anyone else have certain veg that just don't do well for them?
Carrots. If I am really lucky I will get seedlings about an inch high and next time I check on them they will have disappeared.
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Purple asparagus, celery, parsley, red and purple carrots, garlic, turnips, heirloom broccoli, cantaloupes, prima rosa chard, Prudens purple tomatoes, egg plant, moon and stars watermelon, strawberries, blackberries, blueberries.
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Just planted a Saskatoon bush for next year, I don,t expect much off it next year. but they are just like Blueberries, I would like to try some other Squashes as well. it is still early days yet and I am still looking at unusual things to have a go at .
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Japanese onions!
They're tiddly in their little pots at the moment, and will need to go in to their final beds at some stage, but we're not quite sure when...
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Next year will hopefully be the year of the melon. I have one or two :blush: packets of seed lined up so if I don't get one out of that lot I know it is definitely me.
Hoping to have a go at true potato seed, cucuzza (long gourd) and having another bash at carasello.
Lots of different varieties to try of other things from various swaps :)
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Japanese onions!
They're tiddly in their little pots at the moment, and will need to go in to their final beds at some stage, but we're not quite sure when...
I have a bed full and the excess were potted onto larger pots and they are in the greenhouse
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Japanese onions!
They're tiddly in their little pots at the moment, and will need to go in to their final beds at some stage, but we're not quite sure when...
I have a bed full and the excess were potted onto larger pots and they are in the greenhouse
Thanks Cadders, I'll have to wait anyway, as the ground is sodden at the moment!
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I've grown asparagus before (cheap ones from Wilkos which were very productive) but had to leave them behind when I moved plots in 2011, so have ordered some Purple Pacific crowns.
I've also ordered my potatoes for next year - my usual and fave Vivaldi, another fave first early Arran Pilot and then a new for me (and despite vowing I'd never grow maincrop potatoes ...) Isle of Jura. I might live to regret that impulse buy LOL
I'm currently planting up raspberry canes - the ones at home had to be cleared to make way for building work a couple of years ago and I have missed them so I've decided to dedicate a couple of beds at the plot. I've always just had summer fruiting ones in the past but this time have gone for a selection with maybe a bit more emphasis on late season.
Next year will hopefully be the year of the melon. I have one or two :blush: packets of seed lined up so if I don't get one out of that lot I know it is definitely me.
2015 definitely hasn't been the year of the melon in my opinion and I'm quietly confident next year is going to be it ;)
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Good luck with the Dunluce, Surbie.
As for us, I'm going to try some cannelini and lima beans for shelling. And more of everything else: with luck I'll be back in my big plot next year.
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I'm currently planting up raspberry canes - the ones at home had to be cleared to make way for building work a couple of years ago and I have missed them so I've decided to dedicate a couple of beds at the plot. I've always just had summer fruiting ones in the past but this time have gone for a selection with maybe a bit more emphasis on late season.
I've really loved having raspberries this year. Joan J have been fantastic croppers and I am slowly getting through handfuls of the frozen ones for quick puddings most evenings. Yum!
2015 definitely hasn't been the year of the melon in my opinion and I'm quietly confident next year is going to be it ;)
Next year will hopefully be the year of the melon. I have one or two :blush: packets of seed lined up so if I don't get one out of that lot I know it is definitely me.
I really hope so. I had 5 melon plants and got one small watermelon in the end. All the others went crispy and died.
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It was a bad year for lots of things for me - courgettes, squash and french beans. But I am going to try them all again, as when they work, they are fantastic.
Also got a greenhouse this year so can't wait to try new stuff out.
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If the promised greenhouse present turns up then I shall be growing bell peppers and spicy peppers.
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New things for me at home will include using the new greenhouse properly for the first season. So aubergines, sweetcorn, chillies, tomatoes and possibly even the grapevine which has been outside all summer will be given a chance to show their stuff.
Outside, in the real gardening world, I'm hoping the asparagus will start to come good in year 2 and I will be trying out shallots and PSB as well as a different variety of potatoes (undecided as to what to plant yet).
Plus, lots of new fruit
In addition to all that, I am hoping, as mentioned in an earlier thread, to have an allotment to play with too!
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I haven't thought of anything new for next year, but this year I have been so pleased with my salsify and oca, I will be doing MORE of them, and fewer parsnips
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Florence fennel, watermelons and courgette variety. Te latter to give the neighbours a giggle, they all grow the smoothe, pale green ones but I don't see them eating them much, I think the animals have most of them
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With the current weather, I was thinking of rice and watercress! :lol: :lol: :lol: