What's your favourtie?

[Harrod Horticultural]

Have you got a favourite variety of strawberry? Or a particular variety of veg that never fails to deliver? Best spud? Or may be a favourite tool that you couldn't do without? Or a garden gardening gadget? Share them here!

[SarzWix]

Hi HH That's a big ask

I think I'll go for spud - my favourite is Harlequin, which is a cross between Charlotte and Pink Fir Apple, It's an early maincrop salad, which is Charlotte shaped, and creamy coloured with splashes of red, but tastes just like Pink Fir. Divine! It disappeared from sale for a while, but JBA Seed Potatoes rescued it and it's available again = happy me

[chris]

Ooh didn't know of that spud SW! Both of those are my favourites might have to keep an eye out for it!

[Potstubsdustbins]

Crikey as SW says thats a big ask. I think we all have our favs born out of our experience with that vareity.

I grow in containers of all sorts and tend to stick with what has performed well for me in the past and also suits my palate.

As a for instance calabrese Green Magic has a great taste and always performs well in my small 1 meter square beds which are only 9" deep. Its habit of throwing off side shoots and its tolerence to cramping, make it my fav calabrese.

Colin

[VirginVegGrower]

Fave spud - hmmm Charlotte
Fave tool - Copper Garden Tools, my trowel
Fave strawberry - alpine/woodland
Fave gardening gadget - me

[Andypandi]

I have had surprisingly great success with growing sweet corn over the last two years which has made it one of my favs but my most favourite thing to do is source and grow any veg that is purple! I have grown purple radish, purple mange tout, purple French beans, purple sprouting broccoli and purple Cauliflower. This year I have finally found purple seed potatoes that I can buy in small numbers so I will be growing them to!

[LisaG]

Growing gold

I have to say autumn raspberries are the best!

After struggling with summer fruiting (netting to protect them from birds, fiddly pruning), I found the autumn fruiting rasps to be a revelation. The birds get some of the earlier ones but by the time they are really producing, birds have fledged their young and there is plenty of other foods around so they are relatively untouched with no netting. Pruning is a doddle: cut them down in late winter.

And then there is the fruit: tons of expensive-to-buy fruit that seems out of season but is actually at its peak. Plenty for eating, jamming, baking, freezing and it is so aromatic & tasty. I would dread buying so many raspberries as they are so expensive, so this is like printing money or growing gold.

Oh, and the Italian name for them is lamponi, which is an awesome word.

[mogs]

Glen Ample Raspberries - have never failed me and produce masses of lovely raspberries, the jam of which keeps me going through the Winter months with memories of summer plotting

[tdm86]

My Victoria Rhubarb! Its like the diva of my garden, it does so well & shows off

[Mikey]

I think it would have to be a bulb planter for me, I start so much of my veg off in the greenhouse at home and transfer them to the lottie, I wouldn't be without my bulb planter it makes short shift of digging the holes.