Seeds I'll never try to grow again

[ESBkevin]

There is no never list but probably not includes
Celeriac
Celary - Poor crop every year despite the fact we eat lots of it. Perhaps I need to develop better growing stratagies.
Pumpkins, Might do for the grandkids but they are a lot of space and we don't really eat them.
I vasilate over growing potatos because they are available so cheaply. New home grown earlies are special though so main crop is the question mark. Very satisfying lifting spuds though.
Gooseberries. I have grown about 7 bushes from cuttings and they are well established/fruiting well. Never seem to get around to harvesting them at the optimum time. Now they are infested with bindweed so i need to lift them and I'm swapping a couple out for some blackcurrent bushes I've raised from cuttings last year.
Lots I've never tried yet though so the list has time to grow. ;-)

[bario1]

Aubergines (unless I move to sunnier climes)
Sweet peppers ^^ditto^^
Hot chillies - I don't even like hot chillies.

[Cadalot]

Celery tried it once what a failure, it grew but never really to a point where I was able to harvest it

[Scarlet]

A few tomatoes that didn't impress, Red Cherry, Sungold were disappointing, both on taste and same as you VC, splitting and suicidal tendencies diving off the vine, back to Ailsa Craig maybe tumbling toms again.

My Mum always grows Alisa Craig, has huge crops, thats her her main go to Tom. She then adds in a few cherry toms to mix it up a bit.

I won't grow melons, aubergines, celery, and I'll probably give spuds a miss now...I just can't lift them I get a bad back for weeks. Growing in pots, bags don't help as shuffling those around isn't easy on the back either.

[Snadger]

The seeds of despair, discord and anarchy. Who am I kidding - there's a team meeting soon and I've plenty of all three.

I don't know if there's a never again - even the stuff I've not had success with (swede, khol rahbi, carrots) aren't on a never list but more in the If there's space list.

I might have moved sweetcorn into this list as it takes a bed up for a long time usually for not much return but this year I've had a great success (even though only about half of the kernels sprouted) and instead of eating corn on the cob I've stored it as sweetcorn kernels.

Yacon might be on the list - mostly because it looks like the plants won't do much this year including producing propagation rhizomes. If it does make some then I'll keep a couple of plants hanging around just in case.

You got me onto Yacon growing and they always do well for me. What to do with the tubers, now that's a different matter.

[Snadger]

Cukamelons, grew them last year wasn't impressed. Grew Wonderberry this year, grew well, fruited well, just didn't like the insipid taste, won't grow again.

[Aberdeenplotter]

I can't understand how people south of here can't grow sweetcorn. I interplanted mine among my show shallots in the middle of June and they have performed brilliantly .

I swear every year that I won't trial anything ever again but I always do. My only real failure this year was my first batch of cauliflower. I netted them but despite that, they were stripped of foliage by the larvae of the diamond back moth. Damned moths went in through my net by slidiing sideways. it will be netting with evironmesh next year.

[Snadger]

I can't understand how people south of here can't grow sweetcorn. I interplanted mine among my show shallots in the middle of June and they have performed brilliantly .

I swear every year that I won't trial anything ever again but I always do. My only real failure this year was my first batch of cauliflower. I netted them but despite that, they were stripped of foliage by the larvae of the diamond back moth. Damned moths went in through my net by slidiing sideways. it will be netting with evironmesh next year.

I agree about the sweetcorn. Always performs for me.

[veggiechicken]

Maybe its too hot for sweetcorn in sunshiny South Wales.

[annie8]

It’s interesting. I find sweetcorn really easy to grow here. Lots of failures but not that. Wonder if it likes growing up north.

[Aberdeenplotter]

Maybe its too hot for sweetcorn in sunshiny South Wales.

I grow it, starting off in pots and then planting out and then it just grows without any help from me. I've never researched what the plant needs in terms of heat/sunlight/soil conditions but whatever, they just seem to get all that they need in my plot.

As for being too hot close to you VC, I'm saying nowt

[Kirk]

Easy - anything with the word "onion" in it.
White, red, spring. "Onion anything" or "anything onion", even just plain "onion".

Generally totally useless, never got anything to call an onion. How does an onion set come out smaller then it went in?

Half do a disappearing trick overnight.

Annoyingly is they cost so little at the supermarket that they seem pointless attempting.

[annie8]

Just looking today at my spring onion seedlings - pathetic a few bits of grass. Won’t be doing spring onions again

[emarisa28]

After many years of trying to grow sweetcorn, this year was the last time. One kernel on a cob, that's all, two cobs on a plant, both equally pathetic. Even the chooks turned their beaks up at them.

Second, Rosella, tomato. Lovely taste, very productive but..................split too easily, fall off the vine as soon as you look at them and make a splatty mess in the GH. Next year, there's be hundreds of self seeded Rosellas coming back to haunt me.

Is there anything you'll never grow again?

I read this while having a cup of coffee before work.....i am really sorry Veggie Chicken but your sweetcorn situation made me burst out laughing and brightened my morning. thank you!! xx

[veggiechicken]

Hope you didn't spatter the keyboard, emarisa.