What has been the easiest and most difficult crop

Being my first year growing (and starting late in the year) I haven't grown a huge amount:

Tomatoes - were easy and successful. Only grew cherry toms this year but next year will grow 'normal' ones too (though not beefsteak)

Runner beans - easy, took a while to get going and I started to despair of them but then they got going and I've had plenty of good crops from them

Onions - easy...I put 'em in, they grew!

Sweetcorn - easy, they've done their own thing really!

French beans - easy, but a few plants got slugged so I was only left with 2 or 3 so haven't had a huge amount

Carrots - I sowed them...nothing happened. I sowed more...2 came up. :cry:

And as Gobs said:

I can't grow spring onions, even if my life depended on it.

               

Good thread!

My take:

Easiest (by which I mean - throw in the seed and forget until harvest (apart from weeding)) - Turnips grown for roots and turnip tops, Mangetout peas, chard, & beetroot.

Hardest (by which I mean they cropped but needed lots of TLC) - Butternut squash (still not sure if they'll ripen in time), broad beans (very low yield due to poor flower set), and leeks (great crop, no problems, but quite labour intensive).

Impossible (this year at least) - Parsnip (2% germination rate), calabrese (couldn't beat the mealy cabbage aphid), cauliflower (first batch-abominable germination, second batch-turned into 'spring greens' and didn't form curds (tasted OK though))

SS

Great thread

Hardest - outdoor toms, hit by the rain, then the cold evenings, but with forty plants we still have enough for plenty of green tomato soup (my wife has th erecipe down to a tee, secret is a splash of cayenne).

Easiest - radish! In three weeks I had inch-wide radish, 4 weeks and they looked like blimps, about 2" across! It's been a week since I've looked but I'm thinking 'pink footballs'...