[DD.]

This will be my first year - got my plot a few weeks ago, haven't even turned it over yet or really started planning - trying to read some books first before I make some schoolgirl errors!

I'd like to start off and attempt the following:

Onions
Potatoes
Carrots
Lettuce
Garlic
Some herbs
Greens/Cabbage
Sprouts

Am I being too ambitious? or not enough? It seems the plot is HUGE and I kind of feel I should fill it all??

Oh by the way what is PSB? :roll:

PSB = purple sprouting broccoli.

For a large plot, I wouldn't say that's ambitious - but where's the peas, beans, sweetcorn, (and others!)? They're not too fiddly and are good space fillers.

[senrab_nhoj]

This will be my first year - got my plot a few weeks ago, haven't even turned it over yet or really started planning - trying to read some books first before I make some schoolgirl errors!

I'd like to start off and attempt the following:

Onions
Potatoes
Carrots
Lettuce
Garlic
Some herbs
Greens/Cabbage
Sprouts

Am I being too ambitious? or not enough? It seems the plot is HUGE and I kind of feel I should fill it all??

Oh by the way what is PSB? :roll:

PSB = purple sprouting broccoli.

For a large plot, I wouldn't say that's ambitious - but where's the peas, beans, sweetcorn, (and others!)? They're not too fiddly and are good space fillers.

Am I the only one imagining a Jerry Maguire esque DD repeating "show me the peas" "show me the peas"

[DD.]

You gotta have peas - ask peapod!

[p00rstudent]

psb = purple sprouting brocolli

[DD.]

PSB = purple sprouting broccoli.

psb = purple sprouting brocolli

Bit of an echo in here!

[p00rstudent]

sorry only read the last post lol.

[DD.]

That's usually my problem, ask poultrygeist!

[woodburner]

Seems like a good list to start with, as long as it's got your favourites , and doesn't have anything that is only there because someone says you really should grow them, but noone in you family actually likes them. (My kids don't like peas, and I'm not that fussed either)  :oops:  

And to really stick my oar in :-
As Bob Flowerdew says: "Why grow veg when you really want fruit?"
Last year I didn't have the space for raspberries but this year I do, and strawberries and blackcurrants and rhubarb.

[Porffor]

Peas
Beans (french)
Mange Tout
Corgette
Cauliflowers
Pumpkin - hoping for more success on this as nothing came of this last year
Tomatos (cherry)
Potatoes
Suede
Carrots
Radish
Lettuce
Sweetcorn
Aubergine - first trial in 9 years on this one
Onions - are already in
Peppers
Leeks
Squash
Sweet Potatoe - thinking of this but haven't got them yet..
blueberries
blackcurrents
Goosberris
and Herbs of course

There are bound to be more.. but can't think at the moment! lol

[Porffor]

You gotta have peas - ask peapod!

Beans - runner beans / french beans
and
Peas.... gotta be done! you'll be AMAZED

[Swing Swang]

All my seeds are listed below. Some are this year's orders, some are last year's leftovers, and some are 'historic' that need planting this year ore throwing out.
I'll get my spuds from the local potatoe fair in new year and will probably buy one or two tubers of a dozen different varieties., and I'll plant some of my overwintered oca tubers too.


Artichoke   
Green Globe Improved F1
   
Beans   
Broad Bean, Bunyard's Exhibition
Runner Bean, White Lady
French Pole Bean, Cherokee Trail of Tears
French Pole Bean, Cosse Violette
   
Beetroot   
Boltardy
Cheltenham Greentop
Chioggia
Wodan F1
Mini Globe Detroit 2, Tardel
   
Broccoli & Rapini   
Calabrese, green heading (120 day)
Calabrese, quick heading (60 day)
Sprouting Broccoli, early purple
   
Brussels Sprouts   
Sanda
   
Cabbage   
Pointy Spring Cabbage, Precoce de Louviers
Couve Tronchuda Portuguesa (7 week)
January King
Chinese Cabbage, Blues
Derby Day
   
Cape Gooseberry   
Cape Gooseberry
   
Cauliflower   
Cauliflower, All The Year Round
   
Carrots   
Nantes Improved
Parmex
Carrot 'Flyaway' F1
   
Courgettes   
Early Courgette, Verde di Italia
Courgette, Parador F1
   
Endive   
Endive, Pancalieri
   
Fennel   
Mantovano, spring-sowable fennel
      
Kale   
Couve Galega Lisa, Portuguese flat-leaved
Nero di Toscana
Dwarf Green Curled
Komatsuna, Japanese kale
   
Leeks   
Musselburgh Improved
Jaune de Poitou, early yellow  
Bleu de Solaise, blue winter
   
Lettuces
Winter Density
Tom Thumb
Iceberg
Little Gem
   
Maize   
White Maize, MAC medium pearl
Sweetcorn, Mainstay F1
   
Herbs   
Corander, leaf
Coriander Confetti
Basil
   
Onions   
Spring Onion, North Holland Blood Red Redmate
   
Oriental Greens   
Quick Yellow Pak Choi, Santoh, round leaved
Mizuna, Reinhild Strain
   
Parsnips   
Gladiator F1
   
Peas   
Sugar Snap, Delikett
Mange-tout, Golden Sweet, yellow-podded
   
Scorzonera   
Scorzonera hispanica
   
Spinach
Perpetual Spinach
Monstrous Viroflay
   
Winter Squash    
Gem Squash, Rolet
Hubbard, Anna Swartz
Butternut, Harrier F1
   
Radishes   
French Breakfast 3
Rabano Portugues Comprido
   
Salad Vegetables   
Rocket
Italian Selection, CCA selection
Spicy Greens Mix, CCA selection
Stir Fry Supreme, CCA selection
   
Swedes   
Marian
   
Sweet Peppers   
Kaibi Round, red
King of the North, green
   
Tomatoes   
Costoluto Fiorentino, vine
   
Turnips    
Nabo Greleiro
Bola de Neve
Navet de Nancy a Feuille Entiere

[MoreWhisky]

My seeds have come from Alan Romans today  so here goes;

Pea Sugar Ann
cabbage ormskirk
tomato panovy
cauliflower atyr
radish cherry belle
lettuce
cucumber marketmore
leek musselburgh
cougette parapor f1
onion white lisbon
beetroot wodan
carrot new red

any advice/tips on any of them would be welcome.

[peapod]

You gotta have peas - ask peapod!

Helen! Its THE most important thing to grow,you can eat them right there at the plot, no need to share with ANYONE!
Begrudgingly I do grow things that my children may need like carrots and snips and cabbage and cauli - all the non-essential items

But its a waste of a plot IMO  :twisted:

Paula

[paintedlady]

off the top of my head:

broadbeans
peas
runner beans
french beans
mangetout/sugar snap
sweetpeas (flowers)
onions from seed & set, japanese onions
leeks
spring onions
tomatoes
chillis
peppers
radish
spring, summer & winter cabbage, red cabbage
borecole
swede
kohl rabi
turnips
mustard
brussels
brocolli
romanesc
cauliflower
bulb fennel
celeriac
celery
beetroot
parsnip
chard
spinach
carrots
garlic
shallots
1st early, 2nd early, salad & maincrop potatoes
sweetcorn
butternut, pumpkin, and 5 other winter squash varieties
summer squash (patty pan)
courgette & marrows
cucumber
various lettuce & salad leaf
jerusalem artichokes
chinese artichokes
herbs sage, oregano, basil, thyme, mint, chives, coriander (most of these are established)
horse radish
sunflowers
nasturtiums - not deliberate, they seem to have got self seeded & rapidly becoming a weed

established (at either plot or garden):
asparagus
strawberries
blue berries (6 different varieties)
red currants (2 varieties, and one "white currant" that got mislabelled)
white currants (3 white versailles)
gooseberries (2 varieties, one donation)
blackcurrant (3 varieties)
josterberry
raspberries (summer)
tayberries
loganberries
cranberries
apples (5 dessert, 2 Bramley)
plum (Victoria)
conference pears (2)
black cherry (2x morello)
sweet cherry
rhubarb (4 varieties)
hazel
elderberries (6)
(I want an almond tree next   )

 :shock:  it looks such a lot when you list them, but I know I've grown the vast majority of these this year and just added a few more to try out.  I'm also supposed to be trying to grow a few more flowers for the bees  :roll:

[Swing Swang]

paintedlady - I wish I had enough room for so much fruit - Morello cherry X1, pear X1, blackcurrents X3 (my all time fave), goosegogs X1, tayberry X2, rhubarb X3 (OH's all time fave), rasps x6.

Keep wanting to plant strawbs, but the veg tends to get to the plot first. Maybe next year...

Happy Christmas - I'm off to South Africa for three weeks today :-)

SS