Topic: Three things I won't be growing...

[landimad]

Cukes, they are bitter and spikey.
Gooseberries they just up and die on me.
Swiss Chard, yuk.

[amphibian]

Achocha. yuk, yuk, yuk.

Mimi potatoes, lovely taste, great in salad, but so small they are a nightmre to harvest, so hard to harvest that I suspect I'll be growing them next year, whether I like it or not.

Alliums. I have white rot.

Bush tomatoes, I find vines so much easier to deal with.

[Suzanne]

Marshalls - squashkin. Seeds really expensive and yield looks low (once I have found them in the squash bed which is a bit of a jungle). The taste will need to be fantastic to make me change my mind.

Red Orache - it has a nice flavour - but goes to seed really quickly. After last year I don't think I need to sow anymore the self seeders in the plot margins will provide enough leaves for decades.

Outdoor toms with no cover. Will stick to growing a few plants in my annual built tomato house.

[Bill Door]

Decided that I would stop growing

1) radish, they soon go to seed

2) tomatoes, blight and blight and blight

3)lettuce because they can soon go over.

I have also decided that each year i will have a broadcast area (two foot by 6 foot) where i can throw all my old seeds.

I will also reduce the amount of seeds i plant

Bill Door

[northener]

You'd be better throwing them in the swap shop on here Bill. For me no more, 1. Radish - No like and gives me indigestion. 2. Bush Tomatoes -unmanageable just took over the green house. 3. Carrot :'( -tried three types this year and all no good. I'd also like to add Potatoes but you have to keep them in for rotation, lot of hard work for little return.

[Flighty]

Parsnips, swedes and turnips!

[OllieC]

I'd also like to add Potatoes but you have to keep them in for rotation

No you don't. If you don't want them, don't grow them!

[Rhubarb Thrasher]

I've decided not to grow any weeds next year. Don't know why i've never thought of it before  :D

[saddad]

Welcome to A4A Littleredhen...
Kohl Rabi, peas and carrots are great  :-X
Para Cress... who wants to eat a local anaesthetic
Asparagus Peas enough said..
Cape Gooseberries  :-\

[macmac]

I've decided not to grow any weeds next year. Don't know why i've never thought of it before  :D

;D ;D ;D

[Emagggie]

Round courgette, waste of space,mostly seed inside,
Horse raddish,well I'll try not to grow it ;D
Green courgettes, prefer the yellow.
I cut down to the basics this year anyhow, so can't cut out much more.

[flowerofshona2007]

My 3 are...

Dwarf beans why hunt for beans when the climbing ones are much easier !

white beetroot....just dont seem right somehow  :-\

purple climbing beans...colour just puts me off even though they turn green when cooked.

Love Kohl rabi roasted  :D  and we grow the climbing victorian peas which produce loads and dont go tough when big and have the advantage of growing up high, cant praise them enough !

[Digeroo]

I don't think that there is anything that I will not be growing.  Perhaps less of a few things.
Less Lettuce, less, red beetroot, fewer dwarf beans, courgettes.

purple climbing beans

  Loved these - growing Mrs Lewis's Purple podded, great, lovely looking plants, very productive, nice flavour.  Wished they stayed purple when cooked.  It was difficult leaving the pods so produce seed for next year.

[1066]

Great question!
after years of growing bush / standard toms in buckets on the patio I'm giving up! Fed up of constantly battling the wind, and generally maintaining them for not so great results. Will stick to the tumbling toms in hanging baskets and chimney pots. A lot less faff!

As to asparagus peas - thanks to the warnings from this site I don't think I'll ever bother with them!

Onions from sets - pointless, why plant 1 onion and only get a (in my case marginally bigger one or nowt) a bigger onion! If I try onions again it will be from seed.....

Kohl rabi - the jury is still out on this one  :-\

1066

[simmo116]

next year will be my second year asa lottie holder.as its only half a plot im trying to limit what we grow to match what we like to eat and try a few things that look apertising. i always find that if i dont like the look of something its normally quitye nice and vice versa. but i think psb,cobra french beans and anything from the allium family as i just cant stand the heart break of digging them all up again to find em riddled with maggots.

[Theplotthickens]

Just one thing here, Jerusalem artichokes, they are trying to overtake the measly `lottie I have.

I will however be clearing some land I do not own and planting some there and see what happens. Hopefully it will thrive and ground nesting birds will enjoy the cover and associated insects, then I can take a wee harvest myself  ;D

[Debenvalley]

white beetroot....just dont seem right somehow  :-\

I grew purple, white and golden this year but everytime I walk through the kitchen I take a second glance at the white beetroot as I walk past.  Sat there in the jar there's something quite disturbing about it - I'm sure it reminds me of the Alien films !?!?

[Deb P]

Nothing mind blowing here.....  ::)

1. Outdoor tomatoes. One can only stand just so much disappointment due to blight!  Indoor ones, well, I can't see me narrowing the range down too much, too many left to try! ;D

2. Broad beans. Decided to give them a try this year as I haven't tried growing them myself....pretty Crimson flowered variety, but I still don't like the taste of them!

3. Cauliflowers under enviromesh. Couldn't see that they were being savaged by caterpillars and lost the lot! ::) I'm sticking to netting only next year....

[lewic]

Potatoes. All that digging and earthing.. then you have the chore of cleaning them. PFA are so knobbly it is just silly. You can't put them on the compost heap, and they dont burn too easily either..

Raspberries. They get b****y everywhere and havent produced much fruit. And they are slap bang where I want to put a polytunnel!

Giant sunflowers. Look lovely but most of them got so big they snapped off or ripped themselves out of the ground. Will stick to the small ones next year.

[GrannieAnnie]

No  Purple Pruden Tomatoes- rotted too fast this year but loved them last year
No  beets
No  gourds- they take over the trees
No  Papaya Pear Squash which in an eyeblink grew past the edible size
No  Peach tree- had only two that didn't get moldy
No Chinese Cabbage- somehow never get around to using it with better tasting things here

But:  More more more red Heritage raspberries and purple pole beans