What new vegetable will you grow this year?

[Alice]

I hope it will be aubergines. Tried them for a few years with no real success but growing 5 varieties this year. Glutton for punishment.
Look forward to hearing how you all get on.

[Snadger]

Fancy a bed of wheat.......but not sure I can afford the space required!

[sewer rat]

Just been through the seed catalogues and have also decided to try pumpkin and butternut squash.
This brings the total of types of veggies grown to 35 and then there's the fruit and the herbs.............. and the bedding plants............ and the sweet peas

[zazen999]

Zebra [choggia] beetroot, schoneroza [sp], nasturtiums, some more winter squashes, potimarron, lots more but they are my top ones so far. Also, trying more seed saving for Garden Organic, for me and of course to swap with grapes.

[janeyo]

I am trying jerusalem artcihokes and globe artichokes this year. Plus pumpkin and sqash as mine got 'deered' last year.
Different beans and some mangetout too. And shallots.
Hopefully more success with brassicas of al varieties.
And hopefully more of the normal things I grew last year (onions, pots, carrots...)

I'm excited thinking about it all

[lyndap]

Thinking of trying outdoor cucumber,as both my grandchildren love them.I dont!

[Woofster]

I am giving sweet potatoes a try. Also going to try grow melons and something called a Squashkin which is a cross between a squash and a pumpkin. And fennel too if I get round to it and I have the space.

[snohare]

Two varieties of Amaranth and oca (from Real Seeds), linseed (from the health food shop), sweet potato slips from a supermarket tattie sprouting in water, banana shallots, kohl rabi, salsify, coconut yams (aka taro) outside for the first time...and hopefully a couple of others.
Anyone want some asparagus pea seeds ?

[veg crazy]

Well after reading the first post I may change my new things to grow
Aubergines as I got a free packet
Asparagus pea because I thought they would look nice in post and all apart from this posts says they taste nice.

Also climbing french beans just did dwarf last year but didnt get enough beans so thought the taller ones would give me plenty in same amount of space

And the other half wants to grow a pumpkin

[Eyren]

Umm...

* Onions from seed!
* Climbing French beans - cos the slugs ate all my dwarf ones
* Sugar snaps and mangetout
* Different varieties of squash from last year (butternut and uchiki kuri instead of buttercup), just to experiment
* Okra, aubergines, peppers, cucumber - have sown them in the past but not really had much success owing to sloth
* Wider range of herbs - sorrel, lovage, caraway, etc

Also hoping to have better luck growing my own leeks and winter brassicas, instead of having to send away for emergency replacement plantlets!

[FROSTYFRECKLE]

New this year -
Potimarron, Potato Onion, Lemon Cucumber (courtesy of Zazen), black sweetcorn (US heritage variety courtesy of Womble), Sweet Cicely, Alpine Strawberries from seeds, a few heritage peas (courtesy of Marigold007), Amarnths (sp?) from Real Seeds, and chillies from Real Seeds.

[w33blegurl]

Lots of new things for me this year as last year I really only got half a growing year (moved into new house)...but mainly aubergines, globe artichoke, onions and garlic!

[Sue]

Mrs Jackson
If you haven't got much room, try growing some of the smaller more compact Cabbages like Hispi, you can grow these quite close together and always heave out any getting in the way for Spring Greens to allow the others to grow on.

And as for new vegetables, this year I'm growing Brussels Sprouts. It wasn't till I had an allotment that I realised how many vegetables I didn't eat, so gradually conquering childhood trauma... Last year it was swedes and parsnips so that's two down and now this year the worst of all Brussels Sprouts. Did I just not like the taste or was it the way they were cooked (and used for punishment) getting served up for breakfast as I hadn't eaten them for the previous days dinner urgh...

Sue

[carlseawolf]

sweet potatoes

[Eyren]

this year the worst of all Brussels Sprouts. Did I just not like the taste or was it the way they were cooked (and used for punishment) getting served up for breakfast as I hadn't eaten them for the previous days dinner urgh...

I too was forced to eat sprouts as a child (tho not for breakfast, thankfully!) and I still don't like them. When we got some in our veg box at Christmas (they always put them in, even if you have sprouts on your "please do not include" list ), I used up a few by cutting them into quarters and removing the nasty yellow core and made a tolerable stirfry with chestnuts and bacon - but I refuse to give them any lottie space. Not when young cavalo nero leaves are so utterly delicious!