Here's my list , whats going in your poly or greenhouse this year ?

[ukmastiff]

LO all, being only a few seasons in to my growing experience I am still trying out different crops each year. It seems to be the age old problem, some things are nice and tasty but either dont grow too well or produce a pathetic crop per square foot. Other things need a lot of deep digging and may suffer from pests etc.

Crops I've dumped this year : carrotts ( didnt always do well for quantity though very tasty)
potatoes ( too much room inside and outside the rabbitts attack them)
peas ( lovely jubbly but not enough of them)
Melons ( as above)

Last year I loved peas down the middle of the poly but the crop was far too small so this year I'm trying broad beans. I feel they are under rated and very versatile ( I hope)

Tomatoes did well but I fealt they suffered from the restriction of the grow bags so this year I have dug out proper growing beds along both sides of the 20 foot tunnel. One side of the tunnel will be entirely toms in 2 varieties. Sadly my tom seeds are only just germinating so I'm a bit late on toms this year.

On the other side at the mo I have Chinese Brocoli ( new to me) and pick as you go salad which is my 6 year old boys favourite for sandwiches. He owns that salad !

I have also put some Strawberry plants in one end in as deep raised bed but I read that they may not do too well under cover ? , this seems weird as commercial pick your owns all seem to be grown that way.

Last but not least I have some pepper seeds ( on window sill) in and some corguette seeds ( in poly) in so we'll see how they go.

What has anyone else come up with and have I picked any duffers

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Regards Mas

[Two_Sheds]

Peas are well worth growing, but the yield can be small

- try tall varieties, they produce more
- sow close: 2" apart is fine
- keep sowing them throughout the year

[ukmastiff]

I have to admit that I only sowed one crop as I only allowed the thin strip down the middle of the poly. I have broad beans in it this time , I 'need' a bigger poly ( a proper one ! ).

[Vince G]

Our first year with a tunnel so we're playing it quite safe., i.e. stuff that you would expect to see in a greenhouse. We're growing:

Toms: cherry (apero), plum (giulietta), "normal" (fantasio) and a beefsteak whose name I can't remember.

Chillis (Gorria and Cayenne). Peppers (californian wonder, carno di torro rosso & etidua).

Cucumber, Melon, Aubergine and Okra.

Might all go terribly wrong but nothing ventured.......

[VirginVegGrower]

Tomatoes, peppers and cukes are grown in mine, nothing else.

[binley100]

Gh at home will have toms, chillies, peppers and aubs .....gh at lottie will have aubs and chillies . There may also be a melon or two taking up residence in either one or t'other........

[SarzWix]

I think peas are only worth giving the space to early in the season, they can be planted outside now quite happily once hardened off, and prefer to be slightly cooler. Same with carrots - they're only worth the space for an early crop IMO.
If/when I get my tunnel, it will be packed to the gills with tomatoes. We eat tons of them all year round, and I barely made a dent last year, I think we had about 3 months of not buying them, so I'm determined to at least double that... To that end, I currently have 92 tomato seedlings in the greenhouse I will be selling some of those to raise money for the school garden
I'll also be growing half a dozen cucumber plants, and a good few peppers and chillis. I gave up on melons a couple of years ago, never managed to get a single melon in 3 years of trying , so cucumbers got the space instead!

Later in the year, I'll be trying a crop of late/Christmas potatoes undercover as well, because I've never succeeded with them outdoors due to blight, and probably later sowings of carrots, salad mixture, autumn peas and maybe some calabrese.

[taff]

watch your strawberries, they probably seem not to do well because they're eaten by mice or ants before you can get to them

[Urban]

Toms, chillies, cucumbers, aubergines, basil, and hopefully melons

[Chocolate8me]

In my GH all my seedlings are doing well, some I'm planting out but those I'm keeping in there are tomatoes, sweet peppers, chillis & cucumbers.I'm so excited already as it's my first year )

[Vince G]

Hi Choccy, are your toms, peppers and cukes alright in the GH? Reason I ask is I've potted them on into bigger pots now so am running out of windowsill space, so would quite like to move them all to the shelving in the polytunnel, but was worried it night still be a bit nippy at night, especially for the cukes.

[areia]

tomatoes, peppers, chillis, cucumbers, basil, corriander, not sure what im doing over winter

[Feral007]

Was hoping to get some garlic in before winter but it's not looking good atm. Have red and green cabbage, bok choy, carrotts and radish. Also some leeks and red mignonette lettuce. Just put in some herbs in the ground and in pots.
Do you use your polytunnels/gh for all of the growing season? I'm looking to make a homemade hoop tunnel that can be plasticed in winter and half of spring and half of autumn. Then I'm planning to take the plastic off and put shade cloth on some of it during the hottest parts of summer.

[Acanthus]

Yes,tomatoes cucumbers chillies, also spinach does very well, and mixed salads like pak choi,mizuna, saisai as well as the usual lettuce. A few sugar peas do well,mange tout as well. I gave up with broad beans, they grew very tall and didn't crop as well as the ones outside.
My main joy though is from French beans, lovely Fasold does really well, and have beans cropping from July to very late October. My oh loves making frames for them to ramble up and across the roof.And I am still cutting cauli which I planted among the tomatoes last summer, thought they were a failure as they went leggy but they put a spurt on last month and suddenly the curds were there.
The strawberries are covered in flowers, potatoes in pots looking good, a big thyme plant flourishing.
Last year I also had a couple of Psb in there, as I had pigeon problems outside,they did really well, but started netting my brassicas outside now.

[Thelma Sanders]

All the usual stuff.....red peppers, a couple of chillis, cucumbers, Aubergines and tomatoes.....o did I remember to mention even more tomatoes

packed to the gunnels at the mo with all the seedlings to go outside later, as well. Plus some non hardy shrubs that overwinter in there and they can't go out 'til after last frost