[Give it a go]

What did you grow this year for the last time?

Me.. it will be lettuce as most were wasted and the ones picked were tough

[AndyRVTR]

Radish.... what a waste of time and space..... 

[doubledug]

Radish.... what a waste of time and space..... 

try the the long white variety I have been pulling up roots 12  inches long [am i allowed to use imperial measures?] the ladies who have adjacent plots to mine have been very impressed and they are great for stir fry, I use them instead of water chestnuts which i am never going to grow again 

[Aidy]

Hilds Blauer Herbst und Winter. Sticking to conventional radish.

[shokkyy]

anyone tried those Asian winter radishes that are red inside and grow as big as tennis balls? if so, are they any good?

[Swing Swang]

Cape Goosberry - ripen far too late outside, so yields far too low for the amount of space they take up - will change mind if I get a polytunnel though.

Actually my last year for these was 2009 though.

[barbarella]

I'm tempted not to bother with broad beans as they always get smothered with blackfly, even when I sow in autumn.  And they are fiddly to pod and stain your fingers.  (I bet I will end up growing a few though!)

[whistler]

My pickling onions just didn't happen, my chard germinated and within a couple of weeks bolted but I've got some loverly tatties!

[Shop Keep]

Yeah Spring and pickle onions. What a waste of time.

[Swing Swang]

Barbarella - Consistently I find that my autumn sown (or very late winter/early spring) broad beans are the ones that suffer the most from blackfly, whereas the later sowings (one month later) aren't too badly affected - even when they are planted adjacent to each other.

I wonder if it has something to do with the ladybird/predator populations not building up to a critical mass until mid/late spring.

Anyway, if you like broad beans I'd suggest that you don't give up just yet, but plant them a few weeks later than you normally do.

Regards,

SS

[Mash Mad]

Toms, shirley and alisia criag pic below

Peppers, padron which won first in a show pic at the bottom

Potatoes, kestral, nadine, picasso, pentland sqiure and
wilja which turned out cracking   wish i could say that for the others

Cabbage derby day which got bombarded with catapilers, going to put a net over them next time.

Garlic, eleiphant garlic, very disapointing

kelsae onions best ever ive grown, pic below all about a 1lb and half  

Strawberries, dont know the make but turned out a very nice crop  

thats about all.
Because i have'nt got an allotment yet i grow my veg at the top of my backgarden so im limited to space, got a greenhouse with a patch each side.  

  

[mumofstig]

Next year? No Aubergines, had a good early crop during the 4? weeks of hot weather, but very little since.
Given the cost of seed and compost........I think I'll just buy what I need.
and ditto for chillies 

I need the g/h space as I have at last managed to get seed for Sweet Spanish Mammoth red peppers, (thanks to HFW's site!) which are supposed to be the bee's knees.....we'll see 

[Lardman]

Potatoes
I say it every year but this time I mean it , don't let me buy any !!

Onions / Garlic
Lost so many to white rot this year its really not worth bothering with next.

Pumpkin / winter squash
They're still sitting in 6inch pots on the garden table...

Cape Gooseberry
In 3 years I've not had 1 fruit.

Its going to be a very empty veg path next year 

[barbarella]

Barbarella - Consistently I find that my autumn sown (or very late winter/early spring) broad beans are the ones that suffer the most from blackfly, whereas the later sowings (one month later) aren't too badly affected - even when they are planted adjacent to each other.

I wonder if it has something to do with the ladybird/predator populations not building up to a critical mass until mid/late spring.

Anyway, if you like broad beans I'd suggest that you don't give up just yet, but plant them a few weeks later than you normally do.

Regards,

SS

Thanks Swing Swang - I'll follow your advice and sow next spring.  I usually sow my sweet peas in pots in autumn too, but this year they weren''t that good, so I'll sow them in spring too. 

[doubledug]

No more potatoes on the plot, I harvested my king edwards today and they are a scabby slug riden sorry sight from now on its grow bags on the patio.Just have to work out what to grow on the extra ground.