What will you be growing this year?

[Likac66]

I am so excited to have my allotment this year, I have already planned what I'm growing and drawn my plans etc. For the last few years I have grown everything in containers and a couple of small raised beds in the garden and I'm so happy to have more room to be able to grow more varieties and larger quantities.

On the allotment I'm planning on growing:

Carrots - Autumn King and Cosmic Purple

Spinach - Red Cardinal

Onions - Red Karmen, Bedfordshire Champion, Silver Moon, Musona White, Ailsa Craig and Senshyu Yellow

Runner Beans

Courgettes - Black Beauty, Romenesco

Cabbage

Kale - Green Curled Dwarf, Hungry gap

Squash - Winter Sweet Dumpling (free seeds with GYO magazine)

Turnip - Purple Top Milan (free seeds with GYO magazine)

Peas - Kelvedon Wonder and Petit Pois

Chard - Rhubarb Chard (free seeds with GYO magazine)

Beetroot - Detroit 2 Crimson Globe (free seeds with GYO magazine)

Brocolli - calabrese and Purple Sprouting

Sweetcorn - minipop and Sweet Nugget

Broad Beans (although my seeds that I planted last week looked a bit mouldy so I think I need to buy some new ones)

French Beans

Asparagus

Rhubarb

Brussel Sprouts - some standard ones and some fancy ones that look like mini cabbages!

Leeks - Musselburgh and a baby variety Zermatt

Cauliflower - Romenesco and All Year Round

Parsnips - white gem

Potatoes - second earlies and main crop.

At home I will have salad items like different lettuces, perpetual spinach, radishes, tomato (about 6 varieties), cucumber including a new one I haven't tried called Crystal Lemon, chillies, sweet peppers, mange tout, early nantes carrots and very early potatoes.

I can't wait to get started properly. I know there's a lot of hard work, but it doesn't all need planting out at once and I can start on it a bit at a time.

[~kirsty~]

is your new plot in good order? Mine is a new site so I don't anticipate growing much more than potatoes this year (to loosen up the ground) and then maybe salad, courgettes (can also be potted!!), I might try broad beans/peas etc, and I'm going to find a nice patch to put a rhubarb crown for next year.

Yours is quite a lot of different things! Good luck with everything! Lets hope the weather is better than last summer.

[Likac66]

Yes - it was used this year mostly for potatoes and root vegetables and two thirds of the ground is pretty much clear now. There is still the issue of a thumping great apple tree towards the back but the ground in front of it is all in good order so I can get straight onto it.

[SarzWix]

Mixed Grain Amaranths

'Temuco' Quinoa

Giant Red Carrot
Atomic Red Carrot
Cosmic Purple Carrot
Red Elephant Carrot
Rainbow Carrot
Solar Yellow Carrot

Blue Banana Squash
Boston Squash
Potimarron squash
Butternut Harrier
Pumpkin Jack of all Trades
Courgette Tristan

Tender & True Parsnip

Pea; Champion of England, Gladstone, Telephone, Pilot, Table Talk, Bijou (giant mange-tout pea)

Potatoes; Lady Christl, Sarpo Mira, Charlotte, Desiree, Blue Danube, Salad Blue and Harlequin

Garlic; Wight Cristo (plus Provence, Avignon and Albigensian planted in autumn)

Onions; Red Giant, Santero, Red Florence, Hercules

Beans; Purple Giant, Cosse Violette, Cobra, Tarbais, Bridgewater, Yin Yang
Calabrese Marathon

Romanesco
Cabbage Minicole and Tarvoy
Kale Cavolo Nero and Scarlet
Brussels Sprouts Falstaff

Sweetcorn Lark and Minipop

Tomatoes; Amish Paste, Sabre Ukrainian, World's Miracle, Purple Plum, Golden Plum, French Black, Sungold, Maskotka (sp?)

Chillis - Jalapeno, White Hab, Mustard Hab, Aji Lemon, Cherry Bomb, Alberto's Locoto
Peppers; Nardello, Pointy Red & Orange Snack (saved from supermarket fruit), California Wonder

Cucumbers; Sigmadew and Tiffany

What have I missed?

Oh yeah, salad - Red Iceberg, mini green iceberg, various mixed leaves, and my last ever attempt to grow celery, variety 'Red Giant'...

[zazen999]

Too much to mention.

Reminds me must put another load of onions out.

Celery and Celeriac seedlings are up though - yay!

[Samurailord]

Not sure of the varieties I will be planting as I don't have the list with me, but broadly speaking.

Potatoes - First and second earlies and maincrop 'Anya'

Tomatoes - about ten varieties if I can get a greenhouse or polytunnel up in time

Chillis - about six varieties, again depending on polytunnel.

Carrots, Parsnips, Beets, Swede, Radish, Celeriac

Cabbage, Kale, Brussels, PSB, Calabrese, Cauliflower, Kohl Rabi

Onions, Spring Onions, Leeks and Garlic.

Peas, Bread Beans, French Beans, Runner Beans

Lettuce (loads of varieties), Leef Beet, Spinach, Chard, Pak Choi, Celery, Courgettes - about five varieties.

Rhubarb, Strawberries, Raspberries, Black, White and Red Currants, Gooseberries, Blueberries,

Pumpkins - at least three varieties.

Herbs - loads and loads of herbs!

Mushrooms

My son also wants to have a go at growing 'Giant' carrots, so we're going to set up an area just for that.

I'm sure I have missed loads from the seeds I have at home, but I think that's enough to be getting on with for now.

Andy