[urbanarcher]

hi to all just thought i'd put a little post showing all the colourful packets of seeds i'll be planting this year! I'm new to this so we'll have to see what survives!

I've been bargain shopping for seeds and some came back from my trip to Poland with me!
My question to you is what will you be planting this year?

[Azazello]

This year, apart from soft fruits (raspberry, strawberry, blackcurrants, goosebrry) I will be mostly growing

garlic
Sturon onion
red onion
early and main peas
spinach
chard
lettuce
carrots
beetroot
leek
broccoli
swede
cabbage
caulis
3 types of French bean

That's the plan anyway.

[mumofstig]

have a look at this thread for some long lists  

http://chat.allotment-garden.org/index.php?topic=69456.msg793731#msg793731

[Benandbill]

Just put my aubergine seeds in their trays this morning, that's the first thing this year, we have garlic and over winter onions in the ground from last year, then hopefully we'll have some carrots, cabbage and plenty of broad beans...  Last April was the first time we started growing anything ever and we were amased at how successful we were for our first year.  I'm just dying for the long summer days now so I can spend more time down there...

Good luck with your venture!! 

[rhysdad]

(Deep breath)

Beans:

Runner (White lady)
Climbing French beans (Fasold, Blue Lake and some purple podded MOS is sending me)
Broad Beans (aquadulce)
Dwarf (Sonesta)

Strawberries
Raspberries
Rhubarb
Ogen Melon

Tomatoes (4/5 types)
Cucumbers
Carrots (3/4 types)
Beetroot
Onions (3 types)
Shallots (2 types)
Chili's (4/5 types)
Bell peppers
Parsnips
Brussels
Salad leaves
Spring onions
Butternut squash
Pumpkin
Courgette (2 types)
Brassica's and PSB
Garlic


Might be some I've forgotten but that's enough to be getting on with.......

[Mazzie]

From what i can remember...

Chard - 3 types
Salad mix
Lettuce
Tomatoes - as many types as i can find
Carrots - many colours
Peas
Beans
Potatoes
Courgettes
Squashes
Marrows
Beetroot
Turnip
Radish
Strawbs
Rocket
Good king henry
Scorzonera
Salsify
Spring Onion
Kohl Rabi
Horse radish
Hambery parsley

Something like that

[scousemouse]

I'm sure you long-time lottie holders will have noticed this, but whenever I tell anyone who isn't a gardener I've got one, they always ask me, "oooohh, what do you grow?" In the singular.  I couldn't reel off my list like the posters above, but I grow lots of things!

My particular experiment (I always have one each year) is Cape Gooseberry.  If I can get it to germinate.  Physalis are one of my favourite fruits.

[JaK]

Fruit-
Strawberries,
Raspberries,
rhubarb,
red currants,
Kiwi (if the frosts and snow didn't kill it off),
Plums.

Herbs-
Chives,
Rosemary,
thyme,
parsley
winter savory,
dill,
corriander,
curry plant,

Veggies-

Onions, Radar,
Bunching onions,
Jerusalem artichoke,
Garlic, Jolimont,
carrots (lots of types),
Lettuice leaves, mixed,
Rocket,
radish,
French beans, climbing and dwarf.
Potatoes (lot's of types),
Patty pan squash,
Some kind of cherry type tomatoes......

Now sure what else yet really. Didn't do well at all with the brassicas last year so may not bother with them this year.

[VirginVegGrower]

Rhubarb - Temperley Early, Victoria, Red Champagne
Horseradish
Strawberries,
Alpine strawberries,
Lettuce Butterhead ATYR
Broad Beans - Aquadulce Claudia and Sutton Dwarf
Peas - Kelvedon Wonder, Onward and Meteor
Leek - Musselboro'
White Onion - Sturon and Stuttgarter
Shallot
Red Onion - Karmen
Radish - Cherrybelle
Potatoes - Charlotte, Duke of York, Pentland Javelin, Maris Peer, Pink Fir, Desiree and maris Piper
Cauli - ATYR
Carrot - Nantes Early
Cabbage - January King and Hispi
Calabrese - Romanesc
PSB
Red, Black and White currants
Summer and Autumn Raspberries
Sweetcorn - Lark
Parsnip - Tender and True
Turnip - Snowball and Goldenball
Kale - Nero di Toscana
Toms and Cukes in the greenhouse, maybe a melon, oh and peppers

  :blink:

[Yabba]

"What will you be growing this year!"

Older

I did try growing wiser but I sowed them to early and they became leggy and died

¥

[Benandbill]

Rhysdad, you've said you grow bell peppers.  I'd like to grow these.  Do you start these indoors and plant them out later or do they have to be done in a greenhouse?  I haven't got a greenhouse yet so might have to give them a miss.
 

[rhysdad]

Rhysdad, you've said you grow bell peppers.  I'd like to grow these.  Do you start these indoors and plant them out later or do they have to be done in a greenhouse?  I haven't got a greenhouse yet so might have to give them a miss.
 

I'm growing them for the first time!! I'm going to be doing them in the same way as all my chili's. I'll start them off in a heated prop until germination, transplant when big enough into 3" pots and then pot on again into 62 pots ready for transplanting into tomato bags in the greenhouse. I have a suntrap or two at home that i've got my eye on to site a couple outdoors so i'm not entirely sure you need a greenhouse and maybe a sunny windowsill may suffice... Here'e hoping!!

Good luck to you and it's worth giving them a go anyway.....

[Kristen]

Rhysdad, you've said you grow bell peppers.  I'd like to grow these.  Do you start these indoors and plant them out later or do they have to be done in a greenhouse?  I haven't got a greenhouse yet so might have to give them a miss.

I have never grown them outside, but I only get a few fruits-per-plant growing them in a greenhouse, including starting them early and nurturing them on windowsills and in the conservatory. If you have space and inclination then an outdoor attempt is fine, but if you could use the space, and time, for other more productive crops I personally think that would be a better choice.

[mumofstig]

I second kristen about not getting many fruits for your efforts. I'm going to try them in the greenhouse soil this year to see if that improves the yield.

[Sweet Pea 2]

I thought I did well with Peppers the year before last.  They are fairly expensive in the shops so I will grow then again.