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Keep em coming! They're all going on the seed list for next year!
My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)
I would go for French bean 'Climbing Blue Lake' - always reliable for me, whatever the weather and still cropping, having started picking first week in July.
I agree - onions : I grew some Japanese onions for the first time this year and they're whoppers ! So useful to have about the kitchen and hanging in plaits, a nice bit of rustic decoration too.
Sorry, no can do - not just one fruit/veg. Variety, maybe, but not just one fruit or veg. And I have given a lot of thought to it, but I want/need them all!!
...but not good fresh, a bit tough and stringy...fabulous dried though, and prolific
BTW.that doesn't count as my choice. I'd have Barlotta Lingua de Funco (or something). Lovely big red French Bean, looks like a sausage, delicious steamed, and provides big fat speckled egg-like beans if you dry it.
All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.
Not asking for much are you Snadger, but after careful consideration I have plumped for onions too. Variety Jagro which has produced over and above all expectations this year, with a large percentage of the sets growing into onions between 500g - 700g. Planted in drills at end of February, hand weeded once and not touched since - in fact you can't see them for weeds!
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