Topic: Challenge veg for 2009

[pippy]

As Twinkletoes suggests:-   Mine are butternut squashes (all leaves this year), parsnips (nothing came up!) and cauliflowers (neighbour gave me one and it was delish!).

Wots yours?!

[twinkletoes]

Ok pippy - I'll follow - cauliflowers (always a challenge every year) and cabbages. Don't know what happened to them this year  ???
twinkletoes

[Rhubarb Thrasher]

fennel (as always)

[Flighty]

Carrots and tomatoes neither of which I grew this year.

[Jeannine]

Swedes.. blooming things aggrh.

XX Jeannine

[froglets]

Not so much a specific veg, but to use things before they bolt unexpectedly - must polish ye olde crystal ball.

[tricia]

Only blight resistant tomatoes! I'm fed up with losing all my hard work to this dreaded scourge.

I have several self-seeded squash/marrow/pumpkin?? plants which have fruited better than all the carefully nurtured squash and pumpkin plants put together. When I have covered my squash bed with manure in November I am going to sow some squash seeds quite deep just to see if they germinate when the soil warms up next Spring. Nothing lost if they don't, but worth a try.

Tricia

[thifasmom]

okra
melons
aubergines (pathetic size fruit 3 yrs running)
coriander (allways runs to seed before it puts on any real growth)
sweet potatoes
sweetcorn (the bane of my existence 3 yrs running arrgh >:()
fennel (success last year, but all bolted so far this year :'()

I have several Silvester squash/marrow/pumpkin?? plants which have fruited better than all the carefully nurtured squash and pumpkin plants put together. When I have covered my squash bed with manure in November I am going to sow some squash seeds quite deep just to see if they germinate when the soil warms up next Spring. Nothing lost if they don't, but worth a try.

Tricia

yes my selfseeded ones also did better, i plan to only use these next yr and not buy butternut seeds, i always throw them in my compost bin, so where ever they come up in the squash bed next year they will be left to do their own thing :).

[pippy]

Oooh - my mouth is watering!  Hope you all succeed - will be watching for the tips! ;D ;D

[davyw1]

To plant the farmer who delivered my last load of weedkiller manure.

[pippy]

Oh gosh no! .... did you spread it or leave it to rot down?  Is all your plot affected?

I think everyone's going to be wary of manure this year.  I'm hoping to get some reasonable compost from my darleks and supplement with chicken poo.  Or there's always green manure, which I haven't tried?

Wonder what the farmer will grow into?! ;D ;D Mr potato head maybe?

[grawrc]

tomatoes (sow earlier), swedes(bolted), parsnips (forgot to sow any)

peas - I always get a measly return and then they curl up and die.

lettuce - sow fewer more regularly

but I'm artichoke and asparagus queen this year ;) ;)

[manicscousers]

just got some Franchi seed from Eden, chicory and onion, rossa lunga di firenze, trying them  ;D

[loopyloulou]

ummm can i say pretty well everything? not had any beginers luck to speak of  :'( tomatoes are blighty and starting to rot so will be picked green sorted and pickled by mum, lucky mum (i just want 1 red tom to try is that so much 2 ask???) pots we were given were great but not the poundland ones, suspect i needed to manure and trench like the others we were given, peas got eaten by slugs and birds as have cabbages mangetout french beans pumpkins (just the fruit) yellow courgettes (same) green courgettes (aka marrows with slug munchings on them) corn is yet to ripen all 8 of them (planted lots more tho!) beetroot (so mini its not worth the effort) carrots (same) onions rotting in the damp or refusing to grow leeks now bolting (bugger! i was so proud of them too!) mizuana (birds and then flowered) italian leaves (slugs)  fruit bushes so tiny theyre still sort of going, ooh, soil, ooh umm now what? lol! strawberries flowered and ran but no berries (?) lettuce bolted all of a sudden so bunnies got it, kids sweetpeas looked nice tho, but bulbe we planted, tubers, etc? nothing, marigolds? have got all of about 3 from sowing a lot of seeds, and i mean a lot, 1/3 of the way round the edge of half the plot! (oops u said veg!)

umm yeah help! EVERYTHING!!!! wheres my beginers luck?? lou x

[goldendaisy123]

I'd like to give Sweet Potatoes a try and more peas - cant get enough of them!

[betula]

I want to make a big effort to grow flowers for cutting.I love fresh flowers and they are very expensive. :)

I also want to devote one bed to a spring bed,lots of spring bulbs all together to give a splash of colour in those dull early months of the year.

[Bean_Queen]

Radish.

I just can't grow decent radish.  The slugs, or drought, or caterpillars always do for them.

[littlebabybird]

squash type things, the ones that survived the manure were brill but i want lots of types

tomatoes, need to get them to fruit, not just leaves and flowers

beans, need to grow lot the kids  love them

lbb

[texas01]

Anything! I'm new to this, only had my lottie for 2 months so still clearing and digging. Got rabbit fence up this week so can actually plant something now   :) Did have some sprouts in but the pesky pigeons got them through the netting  :( just got leeks on now. Really looking forward to my first potatoes and some winter greens.

[asbean]

but I'm artichoke and asparagus queen this year ;) ;)

Me too !!!  Or I will be next year.  I have 14 globe artichoke plants doing very well indeed thank you, 20 well-established asparagus and another 20 junior asparagus-in-waiting.   :P :P :P :P :P :P :P