your favorite thing to grow and why?

[PyreneesPlot]

I need two -

Fruit & Veg

Tomatoes for all the above reasons

Chillies - more so now as its an hours round trip to the nearest place that (sometimes) sells them fresh.

Salad leaves - for lunch, salad with most meals, as a starter...

Fresh herbs - can't beat a great handful of basil or coriander or even humble flat leaf parsley.

[Jelliebabe]

Squash, beans (all types!) and chillis!

Okay and everything else tooooooo!

[Bren In Pots]

Mine has to be lettuce, I eat in most days in a sandwich or as part of a salad plus I grow it all year round so it must save me at least £40 a year.

[Tripmeup]

Tomatoes
anything allium.......

simples!!

[Newton]

It's got to be sweetcorn! It was a lousy year and my second batch didn't mature.......but the taste of the corn that ripened was sublime........

The fresh stuff in the shops is so bad.....even though before I grew my own I thought it was great.......

I love chillies too! And next year I hope to add melons to the list.......

[northepaul]

Hmmmm this is too tricky......

I would say apples are what I would like to successfully grow.......along with quinces...

What I have actually grown at all and is my favourite (bit of a push this year).....a beautiful aubergine!!

Very proud!!

[Vince G]

I'm gonna expand to three things. Agree with everybody who has said chillies and sweetcorn, but my personal favourite....my Emir melons!! Never before have I tasted such a sugary-sweet , syrupy,fragrant juicy melon. No melon I buy from a shop will ever be the same... a bit like my tomatoes..wait hang on, that's 4 things aaagh!

They say that people exaggerate when they say how much better the flavour of their home grown is, and with some things I tend to agree, but the 4 things listed above are ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS going to be far nicer IMHO now I've tasted them.

[Mikey]

Home grown potatoes, from plot to pot inside 30 minutes. You cannot re create that flavour with any shop bought varieties. The humble potato, always warrants space on my plot, even though I have to share them with the slugs.

[mrbadexample]

1. Tomatoes.
2. Parsnips.

Oh, and beetroot.

[Two_Sheds]

it will have to be French Beans

Me too.

I'm a vegetarian, so they provide me with protein all year round (I dry them and use as kidney beans ~ well, that's what they are).
I love shelling them all, I find it very relaxing, and then I like separating all the different colours into different jars.



No, I don't go out much

[Potstubsdustbins]

I only need one.

Its the one I happen to be harvesting at that time. It all just taste's so much better than shop bought stuff.

Colin

[chris]

Me too.

I'm a vegetarian, so they provide me with protein all year round (I dry them and use as kidney beans ~ well, that's what they are).
I love shelling them all, I find it very relaxing, and then I like separating all the different colours into different jars.



No, I don't go out much

Heh I just bought a load of jars for this very purpose

[veggiechicken]

Heh I just bought a load of jars for this very purpose

You BOUGHT empty jars????????????

[Feral007]

Well it's always been tomatoes for me. But this time I'd like to add cucumbers. And beetroot. And last season there was always, always zuchinni. And lettuce. And cabbage, and brocc's.
The snowpea's and broadie's are going gangbusters already, and the rainbow chard is not half bad already...............ok so anything that is actually growing is just our favourite atm.