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Zoglet
Half Acre
Posts: 132
Success
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March 24, 2007, 23:20:51 »
What crop has been your most rewarding in terms of flavour, yield or any other category relevant?
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PJW_Letchworth
Half Acre
Posts: 188
Re: Success
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March 24, 2007, 23:33:50 »
My best by far would be my leeks. They are superb flavour and a good size. They also keep well. I grew Lyon Prizetaker and I am growing them again this year. I also had a very good crop of parsnips which were Albion.
What about you?
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Zoglet
Half Acre
Posts: 132
Re: Success
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Reply #2 on:
March 24, 2007, 23:40:17 »
This is only my second year, but the greatest surprise from last year were my spuds ( which I planted at the very end of April ) and beetroot- I never knew either could taste so good!
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Curryandchips
Hectare
Posts: 2,422
Re: Success
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Reply #3 on:
March 25, 2007, 00:07:53 »
To be honest, I have had several successes ...
I always do well with onions ... and carrots most years, two years ago was staggering, over 100kg I reckon, with monsters as big as my arm ...
Then there was my tomato glut last year,,, enough green tomato curry to feed the whole of Coventry ... (still got freezer bags of red tom puree)
One year I cropped 128 sweetcorn ...
Derek :)
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Robert_Brenchley
Hectare
Posts: 15,593
Re: Success
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Reply #4 on:
March 25, 2007, 00:11:39 »
Clear Pink Early toms last year. They really were early, and plenty of them.
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marestail murderer
Half Acre
Posts: 149
Re: Success
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Reply #5 on:
March 25, 2007, 03:35:08 »
as a relative newcomer .........and late starter last year.........my succsess was limited to toms grown in a half built greenhouse..........given as plants from a lottie neighbour.............again..........didnt know that toms could taste like that!
rocket spuds..............bunged in late and hurriedly and avidly eaten when ready............by all the family!
secret strawberrys..................hidden in undergrowth of weeds and brambles.......even from birds ect.............and ditto goosegogs...........
in fact..............i think all my freinds and family got sick of me saying....."its right you know....things do taste better off the plot"
this year im ready................sort of!
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manicscousers
Hectare
Posts: 16,474
www.golborne-allotments.co.uk
Re: Success
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Reply #6 on:
March 25, 2007, 08:41:25 »
the best ones are the earlier ones for me, like you say, mm..early spuds, first new lettuce, radish(ate 2 yesterday), strawberries covered now, eaten early may..and surprises, the apple you missed, picked late off the tree..raspberries late last year 'cos of the mild weather..can't think of a better way of life ;D
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okra
Hectare
Posts: 586
Grow your own its much safer
Re: Success
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Reply #7 on:
March 25, 2007, 09:10:49 »
Even after 16 years I enjoy the flavour and taste of all crops, in comparsion to those supermarket offerings, but especially toms, carrots and cucumbers
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saddad
Hectare
Posts: 17,894
Derby, Derbyshire (Strange, but true!)
Re: Success
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Reply #8 on:
March 25, 2007, 12:07:54 »
Eating our own carrots, after a decade of trying... they really do taste a lot better fresh!
;D
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Jeannine
Hectare
Posts: 11,447
Mapleridge BC Canada
Re: Success
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Reply #9 on:
March 25, 2007, 12:17:03 »
It has to be the sweetcorn, there is no,and I truly mean no comparison between the shop bought aged junk and home grown that gets to the pot within an hour.
Cherries and peaches, will not buy either in shops.
Then fast on their heels would come the toms.
XX Jeannine
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grawrc
Global Moderator
Hectare
Posts: 6,583
Edinburgh
Re: Success
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Reply #10 on:
March 25, 2007, 14:32:17 »
carrots, onions, garlic, celeriac, new potatoes and overwhelmingly gross quantities of courgettes!
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bennettsleg
Hectare
Posts: 628
hertford, herts. 2 windowsills, no greenhouse
Re: Success
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Reply #11 on:
March 25, 2007, 14:59:20 »
swiss chard. grown because it looked pretty and the packet said it was easy to grow - now we're die-hard converts and wouldn't be without it again.
the potatoes were astonishingly good - never knew they could taste like that.
long established raspberries eaten straight off the cane.
Tayberries - had only heard of them before but - wow!
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theothermarg
Hectare
Posts: 1,446
Yate near Bristol UK
Re: Success
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Reply #12 on:
March 25, 2007, 15:35:41 »
runner beans i would never ever buy them in a shop better some yers then others it,s true also you can,t beat climbing french bean blue lake i save the seed every year they are never stringy and when you,v had your fill they freeze well
marg :-*
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markfield rover
Hectare
Posts: 1,488
Re: Success
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Reply #13 on:
March 25, 2007, 17:39:04 »
Sweetcorn , cannot and will not buy from any shop , rather go without.
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Barnowl
Hectare
Posts: 3,738
getting back to my roots [SW London]
Re: Success
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Reply #14 on:
March 26, 2007, 14:10:35 »
Runners, Dwarf Curly Kale and Cavolo Nero
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legless
Hectare
Posts: 1,034
Cheltenham, UK
Re: Success
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Reply #15 on:
March 26, 2007, 14:23:40 »
broad beans, most successful in that my husband decided he liked them fresh so much he'd even help down the allotment.
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caroline7758
Hectare
Posts: 7,267
Berwick-upon-Tweed
Re: Success
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Reply #16 on:
March 26, 2007, 15:02:00 »
Parsnips, because I'd given up hope of getting any then got lots, and leeks because they are so easy & go on so long - must remember to sow even more this year!
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cornykev
Hectare
Posts: 9,893
Sunny Cheshunt just outside North London
Re: Success
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Reply #17 on:
March 26, 2007, 15:20:22 »
Parsnips and sweetcorn on my first proper year. ;D ;D ;D
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mikey
Acre
Posts: 390
Head Gardener
Re: Success
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Reply #18 on:
March 26, 2007, 16:02:08 »
by far the best crops ... Greenhouse Toms, Alicante, Gardener's Delight, Sungold, Principe Borghese and Black Plum.
Runner Beans not bad (wonderful in 2005) ... but fantastic French Beans, Salad Leaves and Lettuce
Mikey
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norfolklass
Hectare
Posts: 1,036
Norwich - a fine city
Re: Success
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Reply #19 on:
March 26, 2007, 16:25:41 »
(slightly off topic)
I haven't grown anything yet, only got my plot at the end of last year, but reading everyone's comments about how fab stuff tastes that you've grown yourself, especially in comparison to stuff from the supermarkets, makes me all excited and itchy-fingered and impatient, and reminds me why it is that I wanted an allotment plot in the first place ;D
can't wait to get growing!!!
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