[Aidy]

So one person simply posting that they have 6 tomato plants will mean nothing in the absence of a lot more information.

I find it useful to keep a notebook.

Do my eyes decieve me a notebook  not an excel spreadsheet 
Good reply tho Kristen.
Although I have been doing this for many years, I still can't work out how many parsnips to grow, or worse still how many courgette plants 
The rest of the stuff is pretty easy, I know so many rows of spuds will give me enough to last through to March/ April, same peas, beans. Brassicas are grown in batches of 6

[Kristen]

Do my eyes decieve me a notebook  not an excel spreadsheet 

Nah, I was speaking in the vernacular (or with forked-tongue - take your pick!)

My only gardening records are electronic, it suits me better to be ale to "slice and dice" the data ... but many here talk of "notebooks" and "back-of-shed-doors" so I have used the well-known generic phrase and collective noun for all things long-hand and electronic (except, perhaps, if you are not using Windows?!!) "Notepad"

[JB1970]

It's our first year and have done way more than we planned to and without much strategy, however, we're pretty pleased with the results (So far)!
We were supposed to start a diary but it just didn't happen.

30+ Salad
18 Various Squash & Pumpkins
15 Potatoes
12 Aubergines
12 Cabbage
8 Purple sprouting Broccoli
8 Perpetual Spinach
8 Celeriac
7 Onions
6 Kale
6 Dwarf beans
5 Tomatoes
4 Courgettes
Various herbs

[kevinp]

I love the growing and tending part of gardening and also the giving produce away to people who can not grow. so I tend to plant quite a lot in fact I took on another half plot just for the squash.

Potatoes earlies 10
Potatoes seconds 25
potatoes mains 30
Chard 30
onions red and white 300
shallots 100
courgettes various types, white, yellow, green 12
winter squash 14
peas, earlies, maincrop, sugarsnap, marrowfat, champion of england, 1500+
broad beans 120
runner czar 60 runner normal 100
climbing French 'Cherokee trail of tears' 60
dwarf french  100
tomatoes 30 various
lots of different salad types
tomatillos 10
carrots ?
cabbages 25+
sprouting brocolli 20+
beetroots 60+
and lots of other things root parsley, turnips,swedes etc

[DD.]

20 Spring cabbage.
32' row of black currants
3 x 32' row winter onions
32' row garlic
4 x 32' row "summer" onion sets
2 x 32' rows Kelsae onion plants.
Approx 300 supds of 8 different varieties
100ish sweetcorn plants
A lot of squash/courgettes (I'm late - still to go in)
30+ asparagus crowns
32' row autumn raspberries
32' parsnips
3 x 32' rows carrots
something approaching 300' of 18 varieties pea
36' row of runner/pea beans
80 dwarf purple french bean plants
another 20' of blackcurrants
2 x redcurrant bushes
20 chard plants
space for 2 x Atlantic Giant pumpkins
79 (I think) tomatoes
3 x gooseberry bushes.
Large bed strawberries
30' row new strawberry plants
40 x Brussels
20 x PSB
20 x WSB
20 x Calabrese
20 x Romanesco
10 x Red Cabbage - Ruby Ball
20 x Red Cabbage - Kilibos
20 x Cauli - Clapton
20 x Cauli - Nautilus
20 x
24 x Celery
24 x Cerleriac
20' row Lognberry
36' row of summer raspberries
Block of walking onions
Block of Welsh onions
Block of spring onions
Block of red spring onions

and an elder bush.

Edited as I forgot:

200 leeks
2 x 32' rows beetroot
1 x 32' row swede
Short row banana shallots
20 x Kilaxy cabbage

[emptydraw]

Just wanted to say I was amazed and inspired by the huge lists that people were coming up with, so I thought I'd write down everything we grow and see how it compared. Now I am truly amazed and proud! No way did I think that we could turn a bare patch of earth into a functioning food factory in less than 6 months, it just goes to show what you can acheive with hard work, a little bit of planning and a whole load of luck:
Apple bramley   1
Apple red Windsor   1
Asparagus   10 (now 9)
Aubergine grafted   1 (home) a bit of a punt!
Basil                   4
Black current   2
Blackberry   1
Blueberry                   2(maybe 1 or even worse 0!)
Broad beans   16
Brussels maximum   7
Butternut squash   5
Cabbage hispi   24
Carrots 3 varieties   12ft row each
Cauliflower igloo   6
Chard bright lights   8
Comfrey                   4
Coriander                   4
Courgette   5
Cucumber (gherkin) venlo pickling   5 (allotment) 5 (home)
Daffodils                   2 sacks (80ft perimeter)
French climbing beans cobra   10
Garlic 3 varieties   ~50
Gladioli                   50
Gooseberry   2
Honeyberry   3
Larkspur                   2x4ft rows
Lavender                   10
Lettuce                   2x4ft rows
Linaria                   2x 4ft rows
Mange tout   12ft row
Marjoram                   4
Onion                    80
Parsley                   4
Parsnips                   12ft row
Peppers(cayenne)   6 (home)
Peppers(sweet)   6 (home)
Plum Victoria   1
Potatoes Charlotte   40
Potatoes Desiree   40
Potatoes early Pentland Javelin   40
Raspberry autumn bliss   10
Raspberry Summer Glen ample   10
Red currant   2
Rhubarb                   2
Romanescu   12
Rose currant   1
Rosemary                   10
Sage                   4
Shallots griselle   30
Spring onions   4ft row
Squash mini   5
Statice                   12ft row
Strawberry Cambridge favourite   5
Strawberry Honeoye   20
Sunflowers   12
Supersnap   12ft row
Sweet peas   18
Tagettes (marigolds)   75 (dotted around)
Tayberry                   1
Thyme                   4
Tomatoes 11 varieties   11 (allotment) 11 (home patio)
Welsh onion   1
White currant   1

[elibump]

Reading all of this just one thing really strikes me looking at what we've planted (comparative to others on the site), I believe (can't say "think" as I'm blonde  ) The Gaffer may have overdone the chillies a tad.  Is 50 chilli plants too much do you think?

Eli xx

[shokkyy]

Last year I did 5 chilli plants, I chuck chillis in most of the food I make, but we're still eating them

[LivvyW]

I think this thread proves that even though everyone is different, there IS a lot to be learnt/gained from this exercise.

1. Newbies begin to understand the concept of 100 onions and 6 brussels sprouts and not the other way around.

2. The newly experienced realize they are growing a phenomenal range/quantity of food fairly easily when they take the time to list it.

3. The very experienced get to brag about their ability to feed half the country! 

Its win win win!!

[SkipRat]

I,ll throw my list into the ring..this is for the two of us

20ft  1st earlies
20ft  2nd earlies
40ft  maincrop pots
40ft Peas
8*   Runner beans
8*   wax climbing beans
8*   french climbing beans
12ft double row of Broad beans
1*   Pumpkin
2*   Courgettes
18*  Calabrese
12*   Sprouts
12*   Summer cabbage
12*  Summer Cauli,s
24*  Spring cabbage
12*  Winter Cabbage
12*  Spring Cauli
4*    Kale
2*    PSB
12ft  Kohl Rabi
20ft  Swedes
20ft  Turnip
25ft  Carrots
25ft  Beetroot
24*  Lettuce
200 Onions
12ft  Spring Onions
12   Shallots
50   Garlic
15   Sweetcorn
30   Leeks
40   Parsnips
10   Pac Choi
8*   Celeriac
15   Toms
6     Melons
2     Cucumbers
12   Chilli Plants
6     Sweet Peppers
2     Aubergines

[Kimberley04]

Oh, me too !!

There are two of us, I have a full plot, but only have half of it in action at the moment, as this is my second summer, and I couldn't do it all straight away.  I am currently growing:

10 asparagus crowns (wont produce for three more summers yet)
20' Maris Piper
20' Lady Chrstl
2 squashes
4 courgettes
10 mange tout
3 green brussels sprouts
3 purple brussels sprouts
10 red cabbage
2 large pot of carrots (long and globe)
25' garlic
50' onions (summer)
12 runner beans
25' beetroot (red and golden)
25 mini sweetcorn
4 outdoor tomato
1 greenhouse melon
6 different rows of lettuces
salad bowl continers
10' spinach
50 leeks (in a cat litter box waiting to go out when there's space)

This is a HUGE amount more than I had going this time last year, and I hope for EVEN MORE next year after I get another quarter of the plot going this autumn ....