What's Your Favourite Thing To Grow?

**cazsudz** · 26-08-2009, 07:48 AM

Potatoes - not for the taste ( though they are delicious) or because they're expensive to buy ( they're not) but just because nothing beats putting your fork under a plant and searching for the hidden treasure beneath. Even dedicated non gardeners can be converted by this experience!

Apart from that anything I've not grown before which is successful ( this year dwarf yellow french beans)

Caz

**Two_Sheds** · 26-08-2009, 07:51 AM

French Beans

I have about 500 plants in the ground

I don't like them fresh though, only as shelly beans or dried as kidney beans

**pdblake** · 26-08-2009, 07:52 AM

Turnips and beans of all kinds. Spring onions have been great this year too. Tomatillos, even though it's my first go, have cropped like crazy, and both my apple trees are fit to burst

Even my leeks look like they're going to be good this year.

**TEB** · 26-08-2009, 08:54 AM

I ask myself this all the time and I can never decide, if pushed I suppose its root crops, its the not knowing what you are going to see

**Bren In Pots** · 26-08-2009, 08:59 AM

Mine is lettuce, I love picking just enough leaves for my sandwich.

**BumbleB** · 26-08-2009, 09:25 AM

I have loved it all. Lettuce for months, runner beans, loads of red toms, courgettes, peppers and chillis and aubergines. 6 sqashes nearly ready. And all of the fruit. Apples, raspberries, greengages, strawberries, currents, grapes.

All time favourite is cherry tomatoes but I should do LESS next year.

**annacruachan** · 26-08-2009, 09:33 AM

Romanesco broccoli for its crazy, beautiful shape; Gardener's Delight for their superabundance; chillies, because I'm a recent convert and they just do what they're supposed to, grow, fruit and turn red - unbeatable!

**zazen999** · 26-08-2009, 09:40 AM

Onions, Chilli and Peppers; and Beans for drying. Nothing quite like having a box of beans that you can run your hand through when they are all dried out.

**Pumpkin Becki** · 26-08-2009, 09:50 AM

For sheer entertainment value, I love growing pumpkins (well I would wouldn't I!), squashes and courgettes. I really struggled with them last year, so this year I sewed twice as many seeds as insurance - the ones at home are a bit sporadic, but the ones up the lottie are rampant!!

I've been pleasantly surprised by my Dwarf French Beans 'Sprite' too, they took a while to get going but are cropping nicely now.

**SarzWix** · 26-08-2009, 10:16 AM

Tomatoes (greenhouse ones). I love not having to pay for tins of organic tomatoes over the winter

And the smell of the greenhouse reminds me of me Grandad

**Mi Jard�n** · 26-08-2009, 10:57 AM

Its a tie between tomatoes, carrots and french beans!
I love them all....and a few of each are always munched before making it to the kitchen!

**falkon** · 26-08-2009, 11:18 AM

Radish.. all sort of ... .and now i m looking for rat-tailed radish for next year for its tasty pods..
lettuce are fun too , next year I m trying chilli and okra..

**FionaH** · 26-08-2009, 11:24 AM

I have loved it all, but spuds has to be tops. Its like buried treasure :P

**SMS6** · 26-08-2009, 11:53 AM

1. Tomatoes - just love home grown tomatoes of all different colours, sizes and shapes - just wish I had more freezer space for the resulting soups and sauces.

2. Peas - just can't beat freshly picked and podded gardens peas

3. Salad leaves - for same reason as the peas.

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