What do you grow...

[Noosner]

What!..........No Leeks?...................

No leeks indeed. The last ones I grew took exactly one year from start to finish and they were still not much more than 'pencil thin' when I finished!

[Bigmallly]

No leeks indeed. The last ones I grew took exactly one year from start to finish and they were still not much more than 'pencil thin' when I finished!

Ok, What about Cabbage & Cauliflower?

[Noosner]

Ok, What about Cabbage & Cauliflower?

Still waiting for the effect of growing too many Cabbages 3 years ago to wear off! Cauli a bit too difficult I think... what are your best veggies, BM? Do tell!

[Alison]

Potatoes, leeks, carrots, parsnips, cabbages (spring, winter, savoy, red and Chinese), caulis, swede, turnip, radish, spring and bulb onions, garlic, celery, celeriac, spinach, chard, tomatillo, courgettes, winter squash, marrows, tomatoes, pak choi, lettuce, chillies, sweet peppers, aubergines, melons, sweet potatoes, peas, mange tout, beans (runner, French, bollotti and broad), sweet corn, kale, purple sprouting broccoli, calabrese, shallots, beetroot, pads of herbs and probably other stuff I can't remember

[Alison]

Oh yes, forgot the fruit, strawbs, raspberries, black currants, red currants, white currants, gooseberries, blackberries, tayberries, wineberries, blueberries, cranberries and rhubarb (although obviously a vegetable )

[Chris172]

hi

with still about a third of my plot to reclaim from giant weeds and slugs i have managed to grow

5 types of tatties
cabbages and kale
sprouts and ps brocali
peas, broad beans, runner and green
lettucs
spinach
garlic
leeks
onins
spring onions
radishes
beetroot
coutgettes
pumpkin
chard
turnips
toms
cucumber
obergene
chillies
strawberries
flowers for companion planting
sweet peas
rhubarb
gooseberry
pac choi
shallots
carrots

cant wait to reclaim the rest of my plot so i can get more fruit growing and globe archchokes planted, but thats for next year

happy gardening

[mothhawk]

The private allotments near me have no water on site, and people seem to grow mostly potatoes, brassicas, onions, and runner beans. One plot has rows of bearded iris all the colours of the rainbow. What the grower does with them I don't know, 'cos I've never seen anyone there, but they are a glory to see when all in flower

[Scarlet]

I love iris! Perhaps they just grow them for cutting?
I grow at home and I'm on a water metre. When I plant anything up it gets a good soaking, I mulch with wet newspapers and top with grass. Nothing gets watered after that, unless it's out of the water butts and the plant is in dying need!. Though I did loose a lot of raspberries last year through lack of water - the fruit just died on the plant and then the stems shrivelled.
My GH is different, toms, chillies and cues in the GH get watered most days with a hose.

[BigV]

I like this post! What do I grow?Mizuna,corn salad,lettuce.kohl Rabbi.mange tout rocket chard kale toms Cucs blueberries black currants gooseberries and hopefully,because they are new apples plums pear cherry,sweet corn beans runner and French broad garlic onions a variety of herbs watercress and starting ginger,lemon grass chillies peppers and aubergines.I am almost frightening myself !

[horticultural_hobbit]

"P_, you should grow indian food.'

So that's spinach, mooli's, marrows, courgettes, cabbages, tomatoes, swedes, turnips. But I use that edict from mother, to experiment too. It does depend though, on what works on the plot and what doesn't. I'm willin' to give most things a go, and if they are successful, they become indian in the kitchen!