Next year growing season?

[Digmeplot]

Quality or Quantity


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[veggiechicken]

Both......................

[zazen999]

Both......

[Tripmeup]

Depends on what the weather brings !!

[mothhawk]

I'm just grateful for anything that makes it past the slugs and caterpillars

[pauco]

I'm just grateful for anything that makes it past the slugs and caterpillars

Now that i agree with wholeheartedly


paul.

[Potstubsdustbins]

Both, but quality first.

Potty

[Creemteez]

Quality over quantity. Having fewer - but beautiful, big, blemish-free vegetables, that have little wastage and store well has got to be preferable to masses of tiny, inferior sub-standard ones. If I can manage both then I'm one happy girl.

[Creemteez]

Inferior and sub-standard are the same thing, aren't they....

[Bigmallly]

Yup, it's got to be quality.....I'd rather have 20 top notch toms than 50 with BER or split.

[marcofez]

Both if possible, but quality and taste is what I'm after!!!

[stella]

The plot decides....

[Guykp57]

Both where possible but I remember somebody when I first started on forum advising me to grow what you like to eat so as not to waste much. I made mistake of growing lots of radish without thinking that there was only me in house who like radish. OH doesn't do beans either but I can't get enough and they store well. Sorry going off on one, Just grow what you like, grow more of your favourite veg etc and you'll probably get both quantity and quality.


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[Bill HH]

Have to agree with Guykp, I grew all sorts of things this year that no one wanted and it was at the expense (space wise) of the things we do like. Next yeat runner beans courgettes, pak choy, radish and beetroot all get the chop. Then I also have to think about the plants that got ruined by disease, potato blight spoilt all my main crop potatoes, I think I will try Sapro next year. We do this for pleasure as much as anything and there is not much pleasure eating inferior veg. I do not like having to apolgise for bent and twisted carrots or tiny onions. Go for quality and what you like.

[Farmer_Gyles]

Both
Everything home grown tastes much nicer than anything bought in a supermarket - therefore it's better quality - I'm not worried about wrinkles or blemishes, can easily cut out anything that isn't edible
For quantity, I'm doing several things:
1 - growing all year round - theory is that when one crop comes out, the next goes in - spuds come up, leeks go in etc etc - it means starting seeds long before the ground is available and potting on once or twice before planting - it's a bit hit and miss though
2 - growing different varieties - heavier cropping beans, kale and chard instead of cabbage etc - peas take a lot of space for a small number of peas, so rather buy a bag of peas and grow beans instead
3 - using lots of large pots - they can be moved around the garden as space is available, kept close to take less space when plants are small, spread out as the plants grow
4 - cloches and heated greenhouse - clearing the greenhouse out soon and putting lots of pots in with a parafin heater - will try and insulate the greenhouse if time permits - cloches will go over a lot of other veg
5 - vertical planting - will put hanging baskets for strawberries / tomatoes on all the fence posts etc - means more greenhouse space for other veggies
6 - overwintering - hoping that by overwintering sweet peppers / chilis indoors, i'll get more next year than i did this year