New crops 2017 - thumbs up or thumbs down?

Jazzy potato was my big hit, I'll definitely be growing those next year.   Brilliant cropper/cooker keeper.  The first year of Autumn Bliss rasp was pretty successful also. Mirai Picnic sweet corn proved to be a disaster to germinate so back to Swift/lark in future. 

Thumbs up for Kondor potatoes ... huge and excellent roasters
                      North Georgia Candy Roaster Squashes: two huge fruits per plant that are like sweet potato
                      Hangijia1 chillies: absolutely enormous and more like a sweet pepper with a  slight bite, but lovely
                      in salads and salsas as well as
                      Serrano Chillies: vast crop of brilliant scarlet very hot fruits which are nice and fleshy

Thumbs down (Like New Shoot... interesting!) for Queensland Blue Squash which made a bid for total
                      plot dominance but has only just started producing female flowers

Too soon to tell: Yacon. Plenty of leaves, I can feel a tuber or two from a furtle but no idea how many or
                         what they taste like

Quote from: New shoot on October 04, 2017, 11:12

Not sure - Malabar spinach - tastes fine, but yield has been low.  I only had 3 plants climbing up a cane wigwam as I was expecting triffid like growth.  Perhaps the summer didn't suit them.  They are said to be totally bolt resistant in hot weather, but I had no problems with other greens.  If they had all bolted, would I now be raving about this 

Thank you so much New Shoot - I had no idea such a thing existed!  I shall add it to my list for next year. 

It has a really thick fleshy leaf so goes slimy if overcooked.  Most places you can buy the seeds warn about this.   I tested it with a few leaves and they are right - bleughhhhh !

Its good raw as a salad leaf and has an almost citrus tang.  I did eat quite a lot straight off the vines while I was working around it.  Perhaps why I thought it wasn't prolific    It made great pakoras and was good added to curries at the very end of cooking.

Just checked my stocks and I have a fair few seeds left.  If you want a few to try, pm me moggsie and I'll send some your way 

Thumbs up: Hutterite Soup dwarf french bean - very productive, makes lovely soup
                  Aurora outdoor bush tomato - bushes absolutely laden
                  Bulgarian giant leek - they are large!
                  Rosakrone peas - beautiful to look at and tasty too
                 

Thumbs down:  Dragon's Tongue dwarf French bean - yield very poor
                       Kokigu squash - took ages to produce male flowers.  I have 3 undersized immature squash
                       Double Red sweetcorn - grew beautifully with lots of cobs, but pollination awful despite planting in a block as usual.  Back to Lark next year!

It has a really thick fleshy leaf so goes slimy if overcooked.  Most places you can buy the seeds warn about this.   I tested it with a few leaves and they are right - bleughhhhh !
Its good raw as a salad leaf and has an almost citrus tang.  I did eat quite a lot straight off the vines while I was working around it.  Perhaps why I thought it wasn't prolific    It made great pakoras and was good added to curries at the very end of cooking.
Just checked my stocks and I have a fair few seeds left.  If you want a few to try, pm me moggsie and I'll send some your way 

That's really kind of you Shoot, but I decided to order some while I was online. 

I tend to just wilt spinach with a bit of butter and black pepper - do you think it would survive?  I suspect that most of it will go like yours did - I do love to graze my way around the garden. 

Queensland Blue Squash - I grew that two years on the trot and was brilliant.  This year did nothing at all.  Just saying don't give up if this was your first go.