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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: plot51A on August 24, 2009, 14:09:27
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...next year.
1. Borlotti beans. My second attempt at these, thought I'd done better this time but the yield is just not going to be worth the space they take.
2. Radicchio. Say no more
3. Sweetcorn. I know its very popular on here but... in the past I've been too impatient and picked cobs too soon, this year was more patient so left them too long and they were very starchy. Don't even like it that much.
What will other people drop?
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Outdoor tomatoes.
Kale.
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Huge varieties of tomatoes - I really only like Gardeners Delight for popping in - Marmande for bigger meals and italian plum for their usefulness.
I have also tried to grow sweetcorn with pretty much zilch success - so probably won't have a go at that again.
Kohl Rabi - why did I ever bother in the first place?!!
Main crop potatoes - the slugs get them every year - I have given them up now - as cheap to pop down to the greengrocer and buy a big bag and you can see them before you buy!!
Old Bird
;D
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wont be putting 4 squash plants in the greenhouse! although i did think 2 were melons.doh!
the plants have gne crazy in there,i regularly have to cut them back just to get in there,tons of fruit though ;D and its been fun,also given the rest of the site a good laugh at my expense......
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Onions, 9 months of weeding just to find out they've all got white rot.
Kohl Rabi, can see why no one has ever heard of it!
Tomatillos yuk!
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Peas - too much effort for little return
Swede - over the last few years I've had problems with caterpillars, birds, splitting, rotting etc
Summer Cabbage - easy to grow but we hardly eat cabbage over the summer.
Also, as I'm going from 2 plots to 1 plot next year, I'm not sure about main crop potatos and onions ?
I think one of the great things about growing your own is trying different veg (I'd never eaten kale or chard before until I got my plot) but after a few years of little return for your efforts it's time to move on to something else. Now where did I put those seed catalogues....
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CORGETTES! Deliberate caps lock. i wish i never see another one ever again. i must have 100 cut up and frozen. no more next year no more ever
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Peas - not enough return for the aggro
Potatoes - would be cheaper to buy them as our yield was very low
Cabbages/Cauli - soo much hassle and take up so much space although I am yet to see if they actually produce anything.
Am intrigued by the folk who say 'courgettes' cos they get so many they are sick of them - how many plants do you all grow - I have three and am getting about the right amount withough a glut.
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Asparagus peas - hard as nails when they are big enough to eat.
Aubergines - I keep trying but the flowers just keep dropping off :(
Tomatos - blight outside, blight inside...
Spuds in grow pods - by the time I add up the cost of the compost, seed and growing bags, each spud is worth at least £2.50!
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Onions, 9 months of weeding just to find out they've all got white rot.
Kohl Rabi, can see why no one has ever heard of it!
Tomatillos yuk!
[/really supprised about the khol rabi...absolutely love them ,peeled ,part boiled then in with the roasties...lush]
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Tomatoes - will just limit myself to 3 or 4 plants, cos the blight always gets them or they just stay green and never ripen.
Swiss chard - Looks nice but I just don't like the taste.
Raddichio and lambs lettuce - yuk, too bitter.
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Peas not enough return and by the time there's enough the are really hard.
Main crop potatoes fed up with blight, will still grow first early's though.Summer cabbage fed up with white butterfly :-[ :-[
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Turnips (Well at least not Snowball) as they are slug magnets
Courgettes as we don't eat that many and can eat the immature winter squash/pumpkins
Rocket because it always bolts
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Kohl Rabi - why did I ever bother in the first place?!!
I agree with you on that one!!
My list
*Peas! ~~~~~~~BirdsEye do good ones!!
*Spring Cabbage~~~~~they took so long to heart up that they nearly caught up with the summer ones.
*winter lettuce on the allotment~~~~will do them in the greenhouse.
*shallots~~~ not sure I can be arsed with peeling them for cooking when one big onion will do !!
Duke :)
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@ raisedbedted - people who advocate growing lamb's lettuce are in no position to criticise Kohl Rabi!!! :P
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Radishes - been growing them since I was a little girl and have finally decided I don't like the taste. Took me long enough. :-\
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"Stereo" mange tout broad beans - yeuch
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@ raisedbedted - people who advocate growing lamb's lettuce are in no position to criticise Kohl Rabi!!! :P
Too true, but as I have never grown Lambs lettuce let alone advocate it I will stick with my assertion that Kohl Rabi is not a popular vegetable for a very good reason ;D
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@ raisedbedted - people who advocate growing lamb's lettuce are in no position to criticise Kohl Rabi!!! :P
Too true, but as I have never grown Lambs lettuce let alone advocate it I will stick with my assertion that Kohl Rabi is not a popular vegetable for a very good reason ;D
Oh, sorry for accusing you of that! What was the weed you told me to grow at Wisley last year?
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Outdoor toms, and spuds with low blight resistance.
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Cukes, they are bitter and spikey.
Gooseberries they just up and die on me.
Swiss Chard, yuk.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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Parsnips, swedes and turnips!
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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!
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I've decided not to grow any weeds next year. Don't know why i've never thought of it before :D
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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 :-\
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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
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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.
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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 !
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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 !?!?
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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....
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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.
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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
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not as many beetroots
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I would normally agree with peas but grew sugar snap this year and they were straight from plant to pot no problem and delicious. Just a couple of small rows kept us in peas for 2 months.
Snowball turnip - I agree slug magnets, but Milan purple seem fine, faster growing, no slugs and taste just as good
Carrots. Constant battle with slugs and carrot fly for veg that are abundant as organic carrots in the supermarket - taste better too!
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'Blanc a Collet Vert' White & Green Carrot (Realseeds)
In my earth they grow in a very ugly way not at all as catalogue photos and look just like the intended cattle feed. And the 'subtle' taste doesn't justify their looks. My other carrots were all handsome :) (Lisse de Meaux, also from realseeds is my absolute favourite so far - a must have.)
New Zealand Spinach
The blandest vegetable on earth. I would eat it at another time of year - interesting chunky texture, but there are too many other full flavoured things to eat when it's cropping. Good ground cover for weeds though.
Crystal lemon cucumber
Not nearly as good a flavour as last year's Marketmore. Have my eye on Boothby's Blonde for next year.
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Belly, moles or older
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Belly, moles or older
;D ;D ;D
So we've managed to stop time eh??? :P