I really don't like the taste of chillies, even mild ones.
But I have the seeds of TWENTY-SIX different varieties waiting to be sown because the rest of my family love them. ::)
Do any of you grow things you hate?
Personally no, as my tastes are fairly catholic... but if I grow something new (like Paracress) and don't like it I don't grow it again... :-\
Yes, I grow spinach and kale just for my daughter's guinea pigs, I personally wouldn't touch the stuff.
At least it gets eaten... :)
I have grown leeks this year for my daughter and husband. I hate them so much I even hate the smell of them in the car driving back home once I have picked them. I did not know my husband liked leeks he has been subjected to 36 leek free years.
I have also planted asparagus - hate that too. Brother in law particularly likes it.
used to grow broad beans for my mum in law, we're not keen, then we found out she's allergic so don't grow them now :)
Where to start...
1 Butternut squash
2 Any other squash
Every woman I know thinks they are fantastic, so I end up with so many wasting the space..
3 Courgettes
On dialysis they are just about all that's permitted('cept for double boiled potatoes), and 12 years later I still hate the d**n things.. but as above...
I didnt used to like broad beans or courgettes but found that home grown ones were so nice I kept growing them. In fact I eat much more veg in general now...
Beetroot! I loathe the stuff but OH and littlest adore it so.....same with kale and spinach going in for the guineas this year!!
I don't like rhubarb, but grow it for my OH.
Grew some mooli, did not like them, but will grow a few again this year, and try a bit better with the cooking.
My dad would grow beetroot for my gran but we didn't like beetroot (boiling for hours.... smell) however, now we do (we don't boil it for hours...).
NO !!
......but surely it's lovely to grow lovely stuff for your nearest-and-dearest? That's True Love, innit?
(not that I do it, mind.. ;D)
i am sort a fan chili because those that to hot eat make a good barrier to the one pest, fences do not really work on, squirrels.
Cucumbers!!
If I eat cucumber as part of a meal I can't taste anything else on the plate!
In fact if my wife makes me a sandwich she won't use the same knife that cut the cucumber to cut the filling, or indeed the sandwich itself!
If she did! my taste buds are so keen I can tell if she has did use the same knife!
Strange how my kids and grandkids can't get enough of them hence me growing them!
Broad beans for my mum and dad - it's the only veg I really don't like, but I'm glad to have an excuse to grow them because I think they look lovely, and I love podding them!
Quote from: emmy1978 on January 29, 2010, 11:05:07
Beetroot! I loathe the stuff but OH and littlest adore it so
Ditto - have you thought about Wife Swap? ;D
The short answer is no...but if you asked my husband he would answer just about everything as he hated veggies bless him but he enjoys the gardening and he enjoys sharing.
xx Jeannine
Parsnips!!!!!, they are vile, but my OH loves em so i try to grow them. I hate it when i put one on my plate thinking its a roast tater, errrrggggghhhhh!!!!
w00dy.
I have grown things that I later found that I was not all that keen on. Shard was one thing, salsify another, Khol rabi I was sort of iffy about .
I hate cucumber and was told if I grew my own that I would find it tasted totally different. I grew it and it tasted just as horrible. OH liked it though.
There are several herbs which taste awful on their own but a small bit mixed with something else enhances the flavour of a dish and one time I hated chillis but I tried and love sweet chilli sauce, gradually my taste for chillis has been aquired.
There is only one thing I have never ever been able to eat and that is a banana but I would be ever so pleased if we had the sort of climate we could grow them in, especially at this very moment.
Only once. That was `asparagus pea`-nasty tough little blighters
Quote from: Tee Gee on January 29, 2010, 16:59:28
Cucumbers!!
If I eat cucumber as part of a meal I can't taste anything else on the plate!
In fact if my wife makes me a sandwich she won't use the same knife that cut the cucumber to cut the filling, or indeed the sandwich itself!
If she did! my taste buds are so keen I can tell if she has did use the same knife!
Strange how my kids and grandkids can't get enough of them hence me growing them!
My mum is exactly the same. I don't think they have a very strong taste and I love them.
I will try growing anything once, but if I don't like them won't bother again.
Won't be growing turnips or swiss chard.
The swiss chard looked great and it was bearable in things like vege lasange, but on it's on tasted like soil!
Used to not like tomatoes but grew them for others all the same. Ditto lettuce and courgettes. Now i like them all, tomatoes particularly ;D :D
I dont think i would have come to enjoy eating those crops if i wasnt already growing them for others.
Been asked to grow broccoli this year, the proper stuff not the calabrese most people call broccoli. Dont like eating it 'intact' (but like it made into soup), so if I grow it i might be trying it on the plate! Who knows I might actualy like it .
Just goes to prove that homegrown is the best.