[Faz]

My best growers this year :

Onions (from sets)
Dwarf French beans
and last and probably the biggest success - my tomatoes. They have gone bonkers this year and I have just picked 9lb this morning from 12 plants. And they taste lovely too

[hightide]

Bannana shallots! (beloved by the TV chefs)
Every so often a star comes along to shake you out of your comfort zone, no more shallot sets for me, they very poor and expensive by comparison.
As an experiment I seeded a 40 module tray and planted them out in the same bed as the onions; 47 beauties, the two and three seeds to a module experiment worked too although they were not so big.
I have piccys in the camera
I have lost the download lead  

[chili]

am happy with everything i had a battle with weeds but have got the uper hand everything i have planted
carrots

parsnips
beetroot
runner beans
spuds
onions
lettuce
courgettes

has all grown



i was a keen sea angler until i gort the allotment

[Yorkie]

I have carrots!!!!

After years of telling people when I show them round the site that carrots don't grow well, I decided to have a go anyway.  Only a few and the root fly got a couple but they grew!!!

[Beejay]

As I posted earlier in another thread, I have already harvested Brussel Sprouts, the last pick is now in my freezer!  Don't ask what variety I haven't a clue! I purchased plants at Homebase earlier in the year planted them and harvested.

I am looking forward to later on in the year for my next batch!!

[Lady Lottie]

It's my first year so all I grew was potatoes, leeks, peas, parsnips and pumpkins - all from seed and everything did/is doing well and tasted great.  But I am especially pleased with the parsnips I think. :happy:

[lacewing]

Atlantic giant pumpkin, approx weight estimated from measurement, 280lbs and still growing.

[Clover]

I've had a great year too apart from a few hiccups during the heatwave......

If I force myself to choose 3 things I'd have to say my Cosse Violette french bean - just a wonderful flavour and soft-skinned at any age and it's just kept on cropping while the others faded away.

My summer crookneck - I opted for that instead of courgettes which no-one seems to enjoy after the first flush - an incredibly prolific cropper and it tastes good (meaty, nutty, satisfying).  Very popular with everyone.

....and of course my whopping great parsnips.

[sclarke624]

Sweetheart cabbage the size of rugby balls!

Beejay I grew the wrong sort of cabbage this year thought it would be smaller than the monster that grew.  So that sweetheart sounds good to me.  Does it take up much room.  Is it good for coleslaw.  Thanks

[Babstreefern]

Definitely runner beans .  I'm even starting to give them away as there are only so many you can eat and freeze .  Secondly, dwarf french beans (really nice - I love to hear my teeth squeaking on them as I eat them) , not soggy as when you buy frozen from supermarket .  Spuds done really well .  Sweetcorn worst year for them .  I grew my onions from seeds for the first time (mammoths), came up brilliant - will now do them from seeds in future, no sets for me .  Also my cougettes and garlic did really well . 

My peas did hopeless for the first time ever , really disappointed and did really bad on carrots  - but for whatever reason, I never ever grow carrots well - that is, sorry to say, my last time of ever trying to grow them .

[Lulu]

carrots - couldn't grow them at home on sandy soil - they seem to love the clay of my allotment and there are no carrot fly.  Brilliant crop.

japanese onions from seed - great big things - I thought they wouldn't grow, they looked so weedy when I put them in.  Quite strong too!!

My harlequinn pumpkins look brilliant as well - they are trying to take over the whole allotment at the moment and are lovely and sweet roasted.

Yum

[Terry]

I agree with Peterif, started last Jan 08 cleared the plot and have been lucky with the growing thing, but the biggest success has been the people you meet on the the plots and the chill factor when you sit down and have a cup of tea + the people on here.

[Christine]

I've just decided that two firsts, a second and a third are the best things I've grown this year. 

Never entered a garden produce show before so marrows, red cabbage and marrow chutney winning were a big surprise.

Watch it world next year 

[AdsaM]

Brocolli, Cabbage (3 Types), Sprouts all great.
Tomatoes have been brilliant Pounds upon pounds picked and very tasty.
Cucumber - loads.
Peas - Second sowing should be ready very soon.
Shallots - great have picked about 60 from 18 sets planted and good size too.
Potatoes have been fantastic and (Touches wood) no blight. Just started digging up my main crop Red Rooster and from a single plant got 10 large spuds. Message to self - need hessian sacks for storage
Carrots fantastic - after successional sowings should have enough to take me into December.

Great first year, am well pleased.

Steve 

[lottielearner]

had a fantastic first year early broad bean (scarce) but everything else brilliant! Runner beans millions and millions, spuds enuff for me and several more, courgettes a plenty, sweet corn loads and people.. what can I say, there when you need em with a friendly word and advice if required... worth everything to a novice, and this site .. priceless