your favorite thing to grow and why?

[darcyvuqua]

as title says really so here goes

mine has to be chillies i have never had a green house yet these little babies never let me down from a sunny window sill i have had bumper crops and there are so many amazing colours and amazing looking ones from

medusa to cherry bombs to scotch bonnets to ......well the list goes on and on

and heres just a couple over the years


thanks for all replies x

[rustylady]

Got to be tomatoes for me - even though grandson pinches most of them. You can't beat picking a tomato straight off the vine and eating it warm from the sunshine.

[darcyvuqua]

lol i dont think i ever have i grow mine outside and with most stuff i encourage my kids to eat it all different story next year i hope with my allotment and hopefully 2 greenhouses

[veggiechicken]

Can I choose 2 please?
1. Tomatoes, as Rusty says, because you can't beat the flavour of a sun ripened tomato.
2. Raspberries - for the pleasure of browsing on them, the way they melt in your mouth and the flavour bursts out. Long season too from early summer to late autumn.

[darcyvuqua]

Can I choose 2 please?
1. Tomatoes, as Rusty says, because you can't beat the flavour of a sun ripened tomato.
2. Raspberries - for the pleasure of browsing on them, the way they melt in your mouth and the flavour bursts out. Long season too from early summer to late autumn.

you most certainly can choose 2 i should have posted the title as 'things' not 'thing'
a close second for me has to be cut and come again lettuce as again not alot of work and plentiful rewards on a sunny window sill i cant wait to try to grow lettuce on the allotment maybe even getting to harvest one with a head and not just a few leaves

[VirginVegGrower]

I cannot pick one I'm afraid, but in order of preference

1. Tomatoes, as per RL's reasons - but this year has been abysmal for me

2. Peas, same reasons again - most don't make it home

3. Potatoes, that first earthy taste mixed with butteriness (is that a word) and they are like digging for treasure

4. Strawberries/Raspberries - same as peas

[chris]

I need 2 as well.

1) Winter Squash - I love them. Ever since growing crown prince, I was hooked.

2) Sweetcorn. Have you ever eaten sweetcorn straight from the plant? Amazing

[darcyvuqua]

my mouth is watering at next years prospects

[Mikey]

I think I get more joy out of what I gather rather than grow, I do love the flavour of a warm freshly picked tom, but it doesn't compare to finding a patch of wild strawberries, or collecting a handful of cobnuts.

Its probably the hunter gatherer ingrained in me...

[VirginVegGrower]

I need 2 as well.

1) Winter Squash - I love them. Ever since growing crown prince, I was hooked.

2) Sweetcorn. Have you ever eaten sweetcorn straight from the plant? Amazing

I forgot sweetcorn...

5. Sweetcorn - kids want more as soon as they've eaten it. I never grow enough. I need to stagger sow/plant.

[veggiechicken]

I think I get more joy out of what I gather rather than grow, I do love the flavour of a warm freshly picked tom, but it doesn't compare to finding a patch of wild strawberries, or collecting a handful of cobnuts.

Its probably the hunter gatherer ingrained in me...

Thinking about it, theveg/fruit I like the best are the ones that need no preparation. That you can pick and eat immediately. I'm a grazer

[Florence Fennel]

I think it's got to be pumpkins. I just love seeing the children going to check on them every time they come, and the smiles on their faces at Halloween harvest

[Samurailord]

With this being my first year of 'proper growing' I have a limited selection to choose from, but I think just for sheer taste it will have to be French Beans, followed by All Year Round lettuce and Pak Choi.

Definitely growing much more of all three again next year

Andy

[Andromeda]

I love everything I grow and really enjoy all of it, but my favourites are:

1. Garlic - either in whatever meal I'm cooking or roasted, mixed with butter and stuffed in home made bread you just can't beat it for flavour.

2. Whichever crop surprises me! Whether it's new vegetable, a new type or even the runt seedling which ultimately gives a bumper yield after some tlc - the surprise success is always fantastic.

[chris]

I forgot sweetcorn...

5. Sweetcorn - kids want more as soon as they've eaten it. I never grow enough. I need to stagger sow/plant.

I grow a lot, I think this year I grew 300 plants in total.. They seem to ripen up at the same time mind, but I can't seem to get on non-F1 seed unfortunately. I've had two replacements from one place, and 1 from real seeds. Not sure if it's my ground, or the area.. Bit strange considering I'm in the same region as RS. I am quite exposed though.

Anyway, my point in replying- if you literally freeze as soon as you've picked it (I don't bother with blanching anything) it keeps quite well - I strip the leaves off, top and tail the cob, sometimes split in two if it's a large one and then literally straight into the freezer - I'm a minute drive away from my plot so they're in my freezer within 2-3 mins

My next big task is digging up a channel in my driveway to run power to my garage to get a chest freezer in there! I love it, and if I could, I'd devote a whole plot to it and squash