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Guess who is planning next year already!?

I am curious to know what crops seem to work best.

My most successful crop probably is my anya potatoes, mainly because they are so delicious but also because they are so heavy cropping. two years ago I produced amazing pumpkins from atlantic giant seeds but this year they are pants....too much wet weather I guess.

Most successful thing I have grown (only started last year) is my Cayenne chilli. Superb plant which has hardly been out of flower and production since June/July last year!! Just need to get brave enough to cook with the produce!

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Happy Gardening,
Shirley

http://www.honeyjukes.co.uk

I've had good crops of Feltham First peas - lovely and sweet, and my courgettes, which I'm not sure what variety, and also my hybrid cucumbers are going great guns.... all 4 plants have between 6 - 10 cucs on them

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"Its not who you are underneath, it's what you do that defines you" - Bruce Wayne

Lettuce grows extremely well where I live.

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"I got a business card, 'cause I want to win some lunches. That's what my business card says: "Mitch Hedberg, potential lunch winner."
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Well last year it was courgettes and this year spuds!!
Forgot to say- rhubarb and gooseberries too this year so far!

Dwarf french bean 'The Prince' did really well for me last year! Plants grown from a single packet of seeds I bought from Netto for 19p gave me about 20 carrier bags full of succulent beans throughout the season!

This year they're crap!

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My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

hi been growing marrows badger f1 cross for about three years now and they never fail plenty of water when the weather is hot not much chance of that this summer.

This year (so far)Broard beans, Japanese onions & cauliflowers

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I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.
W. C. Fields

I've never grown cauliflowers before and I bought 8 seedlings form a cheap nursery and I am just about to cut the last one tomorow all were so tasty and amazing, it was nice giving them away to people.

I havent grown giant sunflowers before and most of the seeds took and I have to thin them out I have 10 which are about 7 ft now.

At the moment Annabelle early pots, great taste and lots of them.

Also, I have to say, Bedfordshire Champion onions, not 1 has bolted and we've had some weird weather. I have about 150 of them so very happy.

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An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.
Will Rogers

year in year out reliability...Chard. It just goes on and on, it looks pretty (red, silver, yellow and orange stalks), tastes good and stands thru most of the year

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~ What do I think of Western civilisation? I think it would be a very good idea ~ Gandhi

The courgette plant last year was amazingly productive. This year, the sunflowers, radishes, spinach and endive have all gone nuts.

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Vegmonkey and the Mrs. - vegetable gardening in a small space in Cheltenham at www.vegmonkey.co.uk

Beans here and tomatoes...I love beans so I plant tons of them and eat them fresh, give them to a neighbor and I already have about 25 bags in the freezer...that sounds like a lot but we eat green beans every week...we love them...

Peas, Early Onward, and my carrots in containers. Last year did Paramex or Paris Market, this year did stump rooted variety Scarlet Horn. Both were a great success and the taste so amasingly different to the shop ones.

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And when you're back stops aching,
And you're hands begin to harden.
You will find yourself a partner,
In the glory of the garden.

Rudyard Kipling.

i drink to forget but never forget to drink

Docks and nettles I'm really good at every year, but second best this year are all my root crops. Despite all the rain, they all seem to be thriving. Anything that fruits above ground is looking a bit worse for wear, but most things are hanging on. Just started eating my first ever turnip crop, they're delicious.

My peas are doing brilliantly! I think theyr kelvedon wonder. Theyr so sweet, me and my little girl just keep eating them straight from the pods. I havent cooked any yet! my carrots also look fabulous,they are Autumn King and another variety which I have labelled as CRC2 which stands for what I dont know. Should start pulling them the end of this month,the tops look beautiful and when I pull the soil off the tops they are looking good! Maybe its cos I planted them with onions I dont know.

The best crop I have had was A french climbing bean called Fasold.

I grew them in our garden 3 years ago before I had an allotment. We were taking green beans off for what seemed like months. Gave loads away and still had more than we needed.

The next 2 years I tried them at my allotment. Don't know what happened first year I got some beans but not as many as previous. The next year the plants were attacked before they could establish so I lost them.

I am trying a dwarf french bean this year but the weather is hampering progress.

Carrots and onions without a doubt.

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Kindest regards, David.

http://pigletsplots.blogspot.com/
updated - Sunday 19th at 2100hrs

I always seem to do well with beans. Any type. I also get good crops of toms - maybe because I grow loads - I don't think I've got a particular skill with them. We both love beans and toms too - I hope I don't get too good at parsnips!

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Earth laughs in flowers. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Updated November 17th - The Big Dig

Leeks seem to be enjoying the wet weather. Also the pumpkin patch is growing out of control this year. I don't know if that means I will get lts of pumpkins yet though. I can dream of pumpkin soup galore though.

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Tina

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slugs and snails.... and do you know what? I don't even remember sowing the seeds, they are every where!

My best crops have been from...

Apache chilli - about 150 chillis from two plants, two years ago. Still eating the dried ones.

Rocky cucumber - indoor mini cucumber. Delightful, really small cucumbers, a doddle to grow, smooth skinned, crunchy & easy to eat - converted me and some friends back to cucumbers in a big way. About 120 fruits from 3 plants in a grow-bag. And the real joy is that in Boots, you pay £1.50 for a lunch-pack of three of these little beauties! he he!

My most succesfull crops are: winter cress, lemon cucumber, courgettes, parisian carrot, rainbow chard, water cress, new zealand spinazie, ishikura spring onions, mizuna, pak soy,tat soy, kai lan, collards, norli mange tout, Rumanian hot wax pepper and it seems that all the winter squash ( pomme d'or, yokohama & red kuri ) are starting to bloom... finger cross and hope they crop well too. As for tomatoes, they are all gone... blight! I was hoping so much to pick and taste some of my black tomatoes, but now has to wait till next year.

Momol