Help please! Most commonly grown vegetables?

[legless]

Hi all, has anyone seen in their online or other reading a list of the top 10 most commonly grown vegetables (summer harvested) in the UK (at home or allotments). Husband needs to know for a work project which is quite exciting.

Any help would be appreciated and in case we can't find such a list (the seed companies are being tricky to get the information out of) what would you say the top ten are?

thanks so much in advance for your help!

[legless]

[Hyacinth]

I'll kick off with No.1...gotta be runner beans?

[OllieC]

I don't have a list, but my opinion in case a list is not forthcoming, would be:

Spuds
Onions
Leeks
Runner Beans
Tomato
Carrots
Peas
Cabbage
Marrow/Courgette
Beetroot

[kt.]

I have just found these:

Top 10 veg:
http://www.gardenbanter.co.uk/showthread.php?p=784439

Top 10 tips for kids & veg:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/food_and_drink/real_food/article4250869.ece

Top 10 tips:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/food_and_drink/real_food/article3838784.ece

My top 10 would be:
Lettuce          Red salad Onions
Radish           Cabbage
Beetroot        Spring onions
Carrots          Salad potatoes
Courgettes    Strawberries

(Cucumber      Tomatoes)

Yes I know some are fruit, but they are the easiest of things to grow for summer harvesting. 

[saddad]

Can't go wrong with all that info  ;D

[davyw1]

All four main Brasica
Various  Cabbage, Sprouts, Swede and Cauliflower ( does this count as one )
Onions from set and spring onion.
Potatoes
Parsnip
Carrots
Tomatoes
Cucumber
Leeks
Sweetcorn
Lettuce

[Hyacinth]

I've never grown a cabbage :-[...in fact, if it's really the most commonly grown, I'd stick to the quick croppers, so that knocks out parsnips anorl..

[Tulipa]

Hi  Legless asks for summer harvesting crops so parsnips might not come into the list, or sprouts.  :(

Would broad beans be there too as lots of people sow them because they are itching to get planting?

It's an interesting question and made me think...

T.

[legless]

oh thanks so much, this is all really good info! i knew i could rely on you!

(well i bragged to husband that knows nothing about growing vegetables that the A4A community is the place for the info!)

[OllieC]

I've never grown a cabbage :-[...in fact, if it's really the most commonly grown, I'd stick to the quick croppers, so that knocks out parsnips anorl..

Me neither... until this year. We're giving up kale, cos of the whitefly, and moving onto rounder things...

[Hyacinth]

Because I grow in my garden, I have to limit to those things which make good use of the soil and one cabbage plant doesn't give the yield of, say, one psb or even a sprout plant, and because of the space issue I grow red onions for salads & because the price never really seems to come down,  but not 'ordinary' onions, which I buy.

Loved the question :-*