[New shoot]

Just to go round in a circle, I'm not growing aubergines from seed next year, but I may invest in a grafted plant, as last years one was very successful. 

Won't bother with the grafted toms though - got lots of fruit, but obviously bred for supermarket suppliers.  Prefer my less productive, but super tasty home grown from seed ones 

[Lardman]

Surely that means about 300 cabbages then...?

Alas - brassicas don't grow well in my sand pit either.

Won't bother with the grafted toms though - got lots of fruit, but obviously bred for supermarket suppliers.  Prefer my less productive, but super tasty home grown from seed ones 

Why not graft a good tom onto a commercial root stock. I tried but wasn't very good at the grafting bit.

[GYO Girl]

Sweetcorn - take up too much space, this year's lot grew to 1 foot tall then gave up, and we don't eat much of it anyway
Carrots - don't eat many, and the few that germinated this year got eaten by root fly.
Potatoes - take up far too much space, and I am sick of either spearing them or slicing them in half whilst digging them up!
Parsnips - I have a bed full at the moment and only me in our house likes them!
Peas - take up far too much space for the yield I get.
Cauliflower - never successfully grown one yet
Cucumbers - successfully grew these in my first year, but I'm beginning to think it was a fluke.

On the plus side, this will free up more space for me to grow the things we DO like to eat - leeks, broccoli, runner beans, french beans, broad beans, lettuce, onions, garlic, beetroot, courgettes, raspberries, strawberries, tomatoes, peppers.

[sunshineband]

GYO Girl, if you grow tall peas, you get a good yield per sq foot.... if they are something you like to eat of course 

[madcat]

Definite no to carrots.  They don't like me ....  even tried flyaway last year with no joy.  

Leeks are coming out of the rotation pattern behind early pots - they dont go in early enough and get big enough.  (This year they have literally drowned!  )  So they will have their own space from the start and go in earlier.  

No maincrop spuds because of the blight.  Kestrals and Charlottes I think - they dont succumb too fast, are tasty and resist the slugs.

Dont have a greenhouse so aubergines and sweet peppers never make it onto the list.  Artichokes of both sorts are too fiddly.  Settling on Uchiki Kuri winter squash as tasty, reliable and stores well even after last years dreadful summer, and giving up on the butternut.

Brassicas are on a yellow warning card.  The turnips, swede and summer cabbages are great but the rest ....  everything else gets to eat them except us! Ditto pak choi.

I do hope these hard frosts are setting back the slug population!

[pdblake]

carrots leeks and parsnips are all i'm I'm living on at the moment, veg wise

We're currently subsisiting on cabbage, swede and leek, fortified by the odd late artichoke and an occasional carrot from Tesco. Still, they're good cabbages and swedes :blink:

[bigben]

In the past I started my parsnips in paper tubes and planted as soon as they showed themselves. This year I tried to sow direct and by the time the snips appeared they were swamped with weeds and I had a terrible time telling one from the other at the start. I will be going back to starting my snips in paper tubes again. At least I then know what is a weed.

[DD.]

Next year I will definitely not be growing.

If anything, now I've reached this age, I'm getting a little shorter.

[tosca100]

 

Next year I will definitely not be growing.

If anything, now I've reached this age, I'm getting a little shorter.

I will not be growing anything. Will decide in March if it is worth planting some tubs with veg.

[JayG]

Next year I will definitely not be growing.

If anything, now I've reached this age, I'm getting a little shorter.

  Sirri Birri!   

I will not be growing anything. Will decide in March if it is worth planting some tubs with veg.

Keep the faith Tosca, even if it's only cut-and-come again salad leaves and other easy-but-expensive-to-buy crops. 

[BabbyAnn]

Not growig beetroot again. It was very successful but I can't make myself enjoy the taste - just too earthy!

I found that too but then I gave Golden Beetroot a try and I'm a convert 

Re: aubergines - the best variety I grew was Calliope.  Small (large egg size) but heavy cropping.  I think small fruiting varieties are the way to go in the UK.

As for my plans ... I've gone totally off maincrop potatoes.  I've tried and tried and tried again, different varieties, different techniques and concluded that it's really best to leave it to the experts.  A first early and several 2nd early varieties are on order, but then a "small" pack of 5 Romano fell in the shopping cart, but that's it.  No more.  Never.  Ever again.

[jmc1949]

I will definitely not be growing any peppers, sweet or hot ones. I've tried for 2 years and only got 1 very small green sweet pepper.  I don't know why I can't get them to grow, tried them in large pots and in the ground and some in the greenhouse and some outside with no results.
The seeds can stay in the packets next year.

[sunshineband]

Next year I will definitely not be growing.

If anything, now I've reached this age, I'm getting a little shorter.

Ho ho ho   

I know I am no shorter -- I was measured two weeks ago and have not shrunk 

 

[madcat]

I was measured two weeks ago and have not shrunk 

I was measured round the middle and have not shrunk either!    

[galen]

I was measured two weeks ago and have not shrunk 

I was measured round the middle and have not shrunk either!    

My proud boast that I'm still the same waist size as I was at 16 is now looking behind me - though yet to actually buy any larger trousers 

No to carrots, never managed to grow any in the past 3 years, wasn't going to this year but just couldn't resist - utter failure as usual!