what veggies do you always grow, i want variaties especially please. either for high yileds, great taste, disease resistance or just a good reliable all-rounder.
just want to draw up a list of things as i go along and thought i would get your minds now, as your harvesting your produce. that way in autumn when the seed orders need to be made i can get them all down! :P
Pea delicata - will be growing it again next year
You get exactly what it says on the packet. A good mangetout or if you leave them (miss picking them more like) you end up with great peas. No waste. Heavy cropper. Sweet taste. Better IMO than 3 other varieties I have grown in the past. About waist high. I'll probably do successional sowings of this variety + one other variety as a trial.
Lettuce - sylvester resistant to downy mildew and aphids. Grown it every year so far no problems. Never had a problem with aphids. A butterhead green lettuce. Not nearly as fast growing as my other variety Mikola.
Should be an interesting thread.
difficult question.
if i had to grow only three different vegetables- it would be a maincrop potato, winter / spring-spinach, and tomatoes.
but then i would miss all the others: garlic, asparagus,scorzonera,carrots...
oh one thing- easiest thing in the world to grow: jerusalem artichokes, but a proper big-tubered variety.
Parsnips - Tender and True
Spuds - Duke of York and King Edward, even if it does draw some remarks about the British obsession with royalty!
Climbing French beans, can't remember what I put in this year
And above all, honey.
Veg I will always try to grow - Spuds, Sweetcorn, French Beans, Tomatoes, and pumpkin - cos the supermarket pumpkins don't taste that good to me.
Can highly reccomend
Santa tomato (Mr F supplier among others) - easy, loads of fruit, and they keep for weeks.
This is my first full growing season, so hard for me to reccomend any other varieties as 'tried and true' but will be definitely growing again:
Concorde potato - fab new spuds, and almost completely left alone by the slugs.
Purple Teepee beans - they look great and you don't have to worry with canes, and they have done well even in this 'drought'
Golden gourmet shallots, and Red brunswick onions have both done really well for me too!
I attempt to grow lots of things!
THings I can actually recommend, though, are rather limited as I'm a cack-handed gardener!
Definitely Golden Sunrise Tomatoes - absolutely gorgeous - really sweet and fruity yellow ones.
Sugar Lord (sugar snap) peas - lovely. Shame the plants got munched after I harvest four pods.
Roma tomatoes - great yield, good flavour (for cooking/sauce tomato)
Choggia beetroot - looks great (stripey one). Good germination, good yield. Doesn't bleed when you cook or peel it or go to the loo!
Charlotte potatoes - lovely and great yield
Red Duke of York potatoes - great taste. look good. Maybe slightly lower yield.
Lady CHristl potato - gorgeous taste. decent yield.
I've lost a lot of things (mostly to slugs and snails) and haven't harvested many things yet (hopefully I will, though!)
I really like courgette "Sunburst" :) Little golf ball sized bundles of deliciousness. Yum ;D
Done writing things down, now I can put in my two cents worth.
Ferline tomatoes, not only a wonderful tomato but really blight resistant and if they do get it, cut off the affected leaves and if it doesn't stop it, it spreads so slowly that the fruits have time to ripen.
Rakker, climbing french beans, if you can't get them there, you may have to order from Holland. Very rich yield of delicious, round beans that stay crisp even after freezing.
Choggia beetroot (like Aqui wrote).
Aqua Dulce broad beans, sow in october and have a very early harvest in the spring, in time to sow summer stuff where they were (for people with a shortage of space).
Good thread this one.
First year on my lottie but had great success with:
Courgette - Black Beauty.
French beans (climbing) - Cobra
Cucumber (outdoor) - Long Green Ridge. Great taste and heavy crop.
Carrots - Nantes Early,
Baby Sweetcorn - F1 minipop. No crop yet as I put them in late but good germination and very healthy plants
Parsnip Gladiator - obviously no crop yet but very successful germination and big healthy plants
Savoy Cabbage Ormskirk (1) - rearguard. Just starting to heart up.
Mangetout - Oregan sugar pod. All my peas were slaughtered by weevil (I think) but this came through and cropped well.
I failed miserably with Delikett and sugarsnap peas. Trying Ambassador which have struggled through but still some way from flowering.
There aren't many things I don't experiment with most years but the following never change
Tomatoes, Sungold (flavour is unbelievable)
Early potatoes, Red Duke of York (as above)
Winter squash, Gem (nice small size, good flavour and easy)
Summer squash, Patty Pan (easy and it tastes better than courgettes)
Broccoli, Early Purple Sprouting (flavour again, plus it looks after itself)
Leeks, Atlanta and Hannibal (good succession, both easy)
Celeriac, any variety, I can't tell any difference between the ones I've grown but they've all tasted great
Must agree strongly with potato Red Duke of York and Sungold tomato.
Also Cobra climbing french bean and Waverex petit pois.
My 1st year, but successful things so far have been: -
Lettuce - Little Gem & Romaine
New Spuds - Charlotte (delicious)
Beetroot - Crimson King (sweet when small)
French Beans (Dwarf)
Broad Beans - Bunyards Exhibition
Carrots - Nantes (sweet)
Looking good so far: -
Parsnip - Tender & True
Runner Beans - Enorma
Onions - Stuttgarter Giant
Failures: -
New spuds - Rocket ( low yield. )
Cabbage - Greyhound (slugs).
Calabrese - went to seed.