What Veg are you going to grow this year ??

Purple cabbage again. It looks much more interesting on a plate than the green stuff,pickles nicely and over winters well too.
May give a melon a try just for fun.
Have you tried spinach beet? A super long term crop and it tastes nothing like the horrible tinned stuff that seems to have put a lot of folk off the veg.

And many thanks for such a super site Nathan!!!

 

I'm going to try my luck with some pineapple seeds!!

 

Lots of peas, mange-tout, sugar snaps and ordinary, broad beans, fewer green beans, different kinds of lettuce, Purslane [one of the few vegetable sources of omega 3 and good in salads],Carrots to try various carrot fly preventatives, parsnips, more kinds of tomatoes, chinese artichokes and sweet potatoes which I haven't tried before. Lots more herbs too.
I already have perpetual spinach and asparagus planted.


[ 26. February 2006, 03:00 AM: Message edited by: Liz ]

 

Outdoor cherry tomatoes against a sunny wall. I have grown these for a few years, they are so sweet tasting, easy to grow, you don't have to remove side shoots they put the greenhouse ones to shame. The Mediterrenean plumb tom may be worth a go. I grow Melons [hybrid] normally ok, they tell you when they are ready for picking by the lovley smell, they need to be off to a resonably early start.

 

Well - I'm getting all excited as I've got a veg patch incorporated into the garden plans!!! Its not going to be all that big, but around 6foot square. The problem is that the garden isn't going to be finished until the beginning of June, so anything I plant this year won't be able to go out until then - so, any suggestions???? I'm doing a few bits in pots (potatoes, beans and salad) and have the usual toms and cucumbers in the greenhouse. Anything unsual and easy to grow, please!! (the kids eat just about ANYTHING - especially if its home-grown) :D (This will be my first proper veg patch!!! :D )

 

I've got a brand new garden, so everything's going to be new! But the real newbies are - the Tomatillo - Salsa plant, and the stripey egg-plant! Saw the seeds and couldn't resist them - and now I have my brand-new greenhouse I'm about to try them out.

 

How about a courgette plant Honeybee? Great stir fried, on a BBQ or lightly cooked in a beer batter. Start a couple in the greenhouse and if you plant one out when your garden is ready it will provide courgettes until the first frosts.

 

We are going to give Butternut Squash a try this year one plant in the polytunnel and one outside.

Have to agree with Hans regarding outdoor cherry toms. We scoff them like sweets. We did have a couple of plum toms last year - they self seeded in compost from the worm bin and we got a reasonable though late crop from them.

 

Hi all,
SWEETCORN, YUMMY, easy to grow, but need a bit of space as you need to sow in blocks and not a couple of rows, or they will not produce much in the way of cobs.
How about trying some SORREL (herb)rumex acetosa
It is a hardy perennial, remove the flower spikes to prolong leaf production, the young leaves are ideal in salads, soups & sauces.
the leaves are a bit on the sour side, but a couple torn up in a salad give it a tang! use it for a change in place of rocket, which I love!

 

Like the idea of the Tomatillo, Nixon (had to google it ), and will definitely try the Courgette, Dave. I have got some Sungold Cherry Toms seeds on a recommendation from a friend.
Has anyone tried Aubergines? Are they easy to grow? I like them in a Moussaka and roasted....

 

hi rossco,how do you mean in blocks?im gonna try and grow sweetcorn this year.is it to help them stay upright,to sort of lean on each other,so to speak?or something to do with the the amount of sun they need? or am i being thick?next allotment holder to ours grows them and id love to have a bash.

 

Sweetcorn are wind pollinated,so planting in blocks eg, 4 rows of 4 plants or 6 of 6 means that the pollen has a chnace of being blown from one to another.
New veg for us this year is Stachys affinis aka Chinese artichokes.