starting from scratch in a new home etc and trying new stuff next year
gona try field beans and bread poppies, white beetroot.
what about anyone else?
This year it is chinese artichokes, they luckily seem to like the rain.
White beetroot nice, but I prefer yellow. Field beans ok as soil improver, not sure they are that good to eat. Poppies have lots of them as weeds very pretty.
I think I might try oca.
Way things are going this year I'm thinking of Duckweed and Water Lilies
I'm growing watercress.....and plan to grow much more next year.
Anything exotic that needs lots of heat so....
Sweet potatoes, okra and melons all on the plot outdoors!
Now come on....surely we will have a heat wave next year :-\
Salsify and scorzonera...both for the flowers!
Quote from: Duke Ellington on July 07, 2012, 13:33:22
Anything exotic that needs lots of heat so....
Sweet potatoes, okra and melons all on the plot outdoors!
Now come on....surely we will have a heat wave next year :-\
That's what I though is going to happen this year...I bought 30 bales of straw for mulching, to keep soil moist underneath... ::)..ohh dear.. ::)
I bought/sowed "drought-tolerant" plants for my garden to save on watering. I'm going for bog-loving marginals next year to ensure a warm summer
Might well throw some money at Otter Farms, so Autumn Olive, Chilean Guava and almonds, possibly Carolina Allspice too...
Also a lot more fruit, I've got some red gooseberries and yellow raspberries in pots, I'll be putting a fruit patch on the plot next year, plus will trasnplant a bunch of my raspberries from offset from the home ones... they are lovely things to have, and now the season has started (just in time to take over after strawberries) I'm loving them....
Not really new but, I'm going to have another go at growing Naranjillas. I've never had any luck with fruit setting :'( though they flower readily enough :)
Rice! ;)
Have my sights set on these for next year.
breadseed poppy
hamburg parsley
tomatillo
minutina buckshorn plantain)
huauzontle
achocha
possibly quinoa
mangel wurzel
figs
yet more grape vines
That's the great thing about growing your own food - always something new to try! :)
The way my lottie is flooding this year, watercress, cranberries and rice!
You aren't the only one - I bought a load of straw as well. Perhaps if we planted rice that would guarantee us a warm summer alternatively we can hope that the water companies NEVER announce another hosepipe ban.
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