[Azazello]

I've been thinking about what to grow this year.

I experimented last year with some corn and butternut squash but a poor August prevented much more than a (delicious) taste from either so this year I'll be doing more of the things we like to eat (rather than things we don't like to eat of course).

garlic
onions
lettuce
spring onions
red onions
carrots
parships
beetroot
cauliflower
brocolli
peas
spinach (chard once the spinach has bolted)
dwarf beans
swede
potatoes

Beyond a bit of pak choi I'm not sure I'll be trying anyhthing new.

How about you?

[Christine]

I can guarantee that I shall grow dandelions and couch grass on the paths. 

Otherwise:-

Carrots, parsnips, kohl rabi, swedes, turnips, lettuce, spring onions, radish, beetroot,  peas, broad beans, runner beans, dwarf beans, coriander, rocket, rhubarb chard, courgettes, leeks.

Already planted - garlic and winter onions.

That's in addition to the regular herbs, apples, pears, strawberries and raspberries that are already in place along with flowers under the fruit trees.

What else goes in depends on what is in the seed box and what I can squash in. 

[mumofstig]

Sweet Peas
Pepper - Doux D'Espagne
Chilli - Pretty in Purple
Cabbage - Hispi, Minicole & Tundra
Onion -  Long Red Florence
Aubergine - Tres Hative de Barbentane
Leeks - Oarsman
Tomatoes - Black Cherry, Rio Grande, Carlton, Purple Cherokee, Lemon Drop, Maha Bush, Red
                  Alert, San Marzano, Gartenpearl, Red Alert
Lettuce - Mini Iceberg, Little Gem ,Webbs Wonderful,Marshall Red Cos, Romaine Bougival,   
           Bronze Arrow, Yugoslavian Red, Red Lollo, SoI mixed
Peas - Alderman, Icm peas, Clarke's Beltony Blue, Cavalier, Salmon Flowered.
          Sugar snaps - Sugar Ann
Potatoes - Lady Chrystl, Desiree, Charlotte
Salad onions - Tokyo Bunching
Parsnip - Duchesse
Sweetcorn - Early Extra Sweet
Beans - dwarf french -  Molly,             
            climbing French - Nekar Queen, Purple Podded Trionfo Violetto
             Runners - White flowered and Red/White flowered
Cauliflower - Romanesco
Cucumber - Carmen, Marketmore, West Indian Gherkin
Courgettes -  Parthenon, Striata d'Italia, Yellow, Blanco Medio Largo, Tromba d'Albegna
Herbs, basil 3 sorts, parsley, Garlic chives, dill and Fennel.
Squash - Thelma Sanders, Uchiki Kuri, Sunshine, Marina di Chioggia, Blue Hubbard, Berettina di
               Piacentina, Lunga di Napoli, Celebration, Butternut Hunter, Golden Nugget
Swede - Invitation
Carrots - Autumn King
Silver Chard & Perpetual Spinach

 

Usually only 1 or 2 plants of each for things like squash, and 6 of each for things like cabbage!

[Kleftiwallah]

That's a heck of a variety of squashes mum.   Of that lot which would you grow if only one?     (I've got some Uchiki saved from last year).      Cheers,     Tony.

[mumofstig]

I'd have trouble deciding between Thelma Sanders and Uchiki Kuri.

Uchiki maybe a lttle sweeter fleshed, but Thelma sets more reliably in the conditions here and also stores for longer 

[Higster]

This is my list so far, just keeping a eye on the forum for more ideas
Cauliflower - Snowball
Onion - Bedfordshire .Champion, White Lisbon
Melon - Hales Best Jumbo
Clerery - Tango
Carrot - Napoli
Cabbage - Savoy, Marner Early Red
Brussels - Igor
Parsnip - Tender & True
Beetroot  - Botary
Broad Bean - Super Aquadance,
Calabrese -  Chevalier
Leek - Pandora
Pea - Greenshaft, Sugar Pea Norli, Alderman
Courgettes - Black Beauty
Sweetcorn  - Lark
Squash - Butternut
Broccoli - Claret
Kohi Rabi - Noriko
Swede - Friese Gele
Turnip - Golden Ball
Swiss Chard
Luttuce - Iceberg, Little Gem, Cavalier
I must put a list of my Potatoes together,  these are the seeds I have so far  :blink:

[compostqueen]

Only one variety of carrot! That's very restrained of you 

I like your squash choice there MOS    I'm adding a new one to my "to grow list" this year - Muscade de Provence.  I love Thelma Sanders, so beautiful yet prolific    I like Crown Prince the best Klefti 

[shokkyy]

I didn't have a good crop of Uchiki Kuri and Crown Prince last year, only one of the latter and two of the former, and none of them very big. But they were really nice

The only winter squash I've ever eaten before is butternut, and both of them were way nicer in taste. And even though immature, both stored for really quite a long time too. The Crown Prince smelled exactly like a melon when I cut into it. I'm hoping for a much bigger crop of both this year, and I'm trying Harlequin as well.

[lacewing]

I will be growing all the usual vegetables, peas, beans, carrots, parsnips, cabbage, cauliflower, onions, leeks, ect, ect.  Also I like try something different or unusual,  this year it's  Samphire.

[Robert_S]

I will be having a go at the following: aubergine, asparagus, carrot, parsnip, broad bean, french bean, borlotti bean, strawberry, apples, potatoes, various salad /lettuce leaves, various herbs, beetroot, celery, celeriac, kohlrabi, fennel, cabbages, cauli, PSB, onion, garlic, shallot, leek, kale, swede, sweetcorn, tomatoes, spinach, spinach beet, squash, pumpkin, various fruit bushes inc lots of raspberries, courgettes, cucumber, radish, chillis, sweet peppers, erm i think that's about it. Some of those will only be in a small part of a bed, so a couple of 4ft rows, so I am hopeful i can get them all in. The potatoes are going in plot 2 where the apple trees / chickens are, as I am planning a few long rows of those.

Not sure whether to bother with peas, and will probably give turnips a miss too this year as I don't really like them that much.

Can't wait! Might plant a few chillies this weekend actually.

[sowitgrowit]

I will be cramming into my 3m² plot, 2 x 6' borders and various containers:

Runner beans - Enorma
Dwarf french beans - Purple Queen, Saxa
Squash - Spaghetti
Onion - Ailsa Craig and White Lisbon (spring)
Cabbage - Red Acre
Tomato - Gartenperle

..and various herbs, the odd broad bean (saved from last season).


//edit: Oh! And carrots, beetroot and possibly radishes dotted between everything else.

[Lawrence]

Here is my chilli list.

Super Chilli
Brown Habanero
Chocolate Habanero
Orange Habanero
Habanero Carribean red
Bhut Jolokia
Chilli de Cayenne
Mek Phet
Trinidad Scorpion
Trinidad Scorpion Morouga
Red Peruvian Rocoto
7 Pod/Pot
Hungarian Hot Wax
Trinidad Bush
Birds Eye
Thai Birds Eye
Pasilla Bajia
Dorset Naga
Navaho
Finger Chilli
Scotch Bonnet Red
Scotch Bonnet Orange
Scotch Bonnet Yellow
Golden Cayenne
Lemon Chilli
Turbo Pube
Jalapeno
Jalapeno  “M”
Jalapeno Early
Fuego
Goat Weed
Caloro
Twilight
Prairie Fire
Pyramid
Duke Pequin
Romanian
Cayenne Long Slim
Hot Cherry
Satans Kiss
Hot Cayenne
Santa fe grande
Cap 1478
Cap 220
Short Yellow Tabasco
Numex “Joe E Parker”
Ancho
Fatalii
Pimenta de Neyde
Aji Crystal
Bolivian Rainbow
Naga Jolokia
Padron
Black Pearl
Cheyenne
Ring of Fire

I have yet to sort out the rest, I will post them as I get them sown

[mumofstig]

you like chillis a bit then 

[Lawrence]

Well... more like collect them really.
I just see them in the lists, or on the net and I think ooh! I might try that!
Then when sowing time comes I think OMG! how many?

[mumofstig]

I think OMG! how many?

That's exactly what I thought when I saw your list