This season, I will be mostly growing...

[HeyWayne]

Beans.

Now, before you all get excited - LadyWayne and I haven't been baking. It just struck me that I seem to be growing/sowing an awful lot of beans/peas this year.

I noticed how I was getting through quite a lot of toilet roll tubes - having previously thought I had way too many tubes, they've all gone!

What's taking up the lion's share of your plot?

[Two_Sheds]

It seems to be mostly onions at the moment: I decided to grow from seed, then they didn't do very well so I bought sets as well.
Now the seeds have started to come along ...

[ginger ninger]

I'm very divided the thing that's going to take up most of my room are the squash's, but on the other hand I've sown 5 dozen runner bean's all different verity's, also I'm going to sow 2 dozen French bean's as well as 2 dozen dwarf French bean's...so ya could say we like bean's in our house

[Bren In Pots]

I seem to have a production line of lettuce growing, good thing we eat a lot of it.

[FionaH]

Beans for shelling and tomatoes. Lots and lots of tomatoes! If I get hit with blight i will be so stuffed!

[Florence Fennel]

Me too Fi, I have lots and lots of toms. Loads of coriander (my daughter uses fields of the stuff). Since my lesson from you lot about brassicas from seed, I have successful plug plants of cabbages, caulis, sprouts and calabrese in trays of 40. Where I'm going to put them all I don't know!

[northepaul]

At the moment, Garlic
I have masses of them in one bed and they're huge.
Onions are the biggest thing in new bed, but hopefully it will be taken over by beetroot, and later, beans when they go in.

[Flummery]

Beans - and peas! And tomatoes. Oh, and chard!

Growing lots of peas because I want to do some more cross pollinating. My first group of crosses (made 2 years ago and now the F2 generation) are just about to flower. It's so exciting that I've got a couple more crosses planned.

I'm growing lots of beans for shelling and my fave, Cherokee trail of tears for eating fresh. Also growing out my crossed dwarf beans - 3 types - to try to get stable lines.

Toms - un-hybridised and crossed - and a few 'others'.

[maytreefrannie]

This year, not growing an awful lot, some carrots, a few onions, squash, garlic and herbs, but the biggest bed (not so big at that) is given to potatoes, all of them are now showing shoots.

I like to grow in containers, I feel I can 'manage' them more easily.

AND - if the seeds germinate - a few pumpkins.

[SarzWix]

Peas - 10 types. And beans - another 10 types. And onions 3 types from sets and 2 from seed. Oh yeah and potatoes - 12 types.

In fact, I seem to have gone overboard on everything except tomatoes this year

[Helgalush]

Tomatoes and peppers.

They were amongst the first things that I sowed before I understood about sowing little amounts/successional sowing/saving some for next year.

The amount of things where I just sowed the whole packet!

Anyway I have a potential 27 tumbling toms and I think I had 12 red pepper plants, although I have managed to give some of those away (I only have a blowaway GH!)

Holding on to them all for now, since its going to be down to chance as to which ones survive my over- or under-watering!

[Alison]

You can never have too many beans, they're lovely fresh and keep really well in various guises. So far I have about 30 dwarf Frenchies in the polytunnel and the following on the go in the greenhouse for planting out in a bit - 10 runners, 3 types of climbing Frenchies (will plant out 12 of each) and 94 bolotti beans for drying which is pretty simialr to last year. May also direct sow some dwarf Frenchies with the sweetcorn but probably not. Have got rid of a few toms now but did have 54 plants in the conservatory which was a bit out of hand and about 30 peppers and a similar number of chillies. Thankfully it's getting more spring like so I can direct sow peas etc now so no more strips of guttering in the greenhouse

[Tomatoking]

Tomatoes! Well, I would wouldn't I!

[HeyWayne]

So, my next question is - how do you stop them from cross pollenating? My plot's not that big, and I'm paranoid about cross fertilisation.

[Alison]

Do you mean your beans HW? If they're runners then it's not easy as theoretically you need them about 3 miles apart and they're insect pollinated but if you're talking about Frenchies then you can grow them close together without any probs