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    What's your Vegetable/Fruit speciality!

    Although we grow lots of different veggies throughout the year, it has been said that we should also aim to become an expert/specialist/enthusiast in one.
    Is there something that you cannot resist growing - even though you know that you cannot eat all of it? Or just have to buy because its a different variety to add to your collection
    I know we have onion and chilli enthusiasts - what veggie/fruit/herb is your obsession?
    And before you ask - this is my Year of the Kale
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    Tomatoes!

    I'm obsessed with trying all the heritage varieties out there but have very limited space. I have this reccurring nightmare that I won't live long enough to try them all!

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    • #3
      Hmmm Well the one thing I grow every year, and every year I add another variety into the mix even though I cannot eat all that the other varieties grow so then look on how to pickle, preserve and bake all the veg I get would have to be ...

      Courgette

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      • #4
        hmmmmph, I'm excluded. Think I'll tangentise

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        • #5
          Go on - show us your big onions

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          • #6
            no, no , I'd feel like a second class citizen.

            I have been trying to think of a second favourite but I'm just a veggie nut all round

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            • #7
              Mines lettuce probably because I eat it most days on a sandwich.
              Location....East Midlands.

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              • #8
                No particular veg just yet but I discovered kohl rabi last year and can't get enough of it. Already plotted a MUCH bigger space for it this year.
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                  Runner beans a Sunday dinner is not complete without runners.

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                  • #10
                    Toms for me! I always need to carry on with my favourite varieties and try some new ones each year. Trouble is the favourite list is getting bigger and bigger as time goes on!

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                    • #11
                      i try and do something really well each year - this year I'm following AP's guide to knowing your onions!
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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by veggiechicken View Post
                        Although we grow lots of different veggies throughout the year, it has been said that we should also aim to become an expert/specialist/enthusiast in one.
                        Who says that? I'd not want to concentrate on one type as I like variety. Have also found that what does well one year often is rubbish the year after but by growing loads of different things I still get plenty to eat .

                        Some of us live in the past, always talking about back then. Some of us live in the future, always planning what we are going to do. And, then there are those, who neither look behind or ahead, but just enjoy the moment of right now.

                        Which one are you and is it how you want to be?

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                        • #13
                          Tomatoes and beans. I especially love to try the old varieties I get on seed swaps.

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                            Ah, but, Alison, its not to the exclusion of everything else - just some folk have a special interest in some things. Like I went through a phase of buying all the different types of mint I could find. This year its going to be kales - annual and perennial. I'll probably fail dismally but at least I'll know that I'm no good with them

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                            • #15
                              Winter squash/pumpkins, I always try some new ones each year, as well as the old favourites

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