Seeds I'll never try to grow again

[Cadalot]

I don't think I will be trying celery again anytime soon

[Deano's "Diggin It"]

Red veined sorrel - revolting stuff and I've only just managed to defeat it after 3 years of pulling it up.

^If you're looking a nice perennial ornamental though, they look stunning!^

Basically it's a dock with fancy leaves....

In total agreance and never on my grow list again!

Likewise celery "Red Giant"

Was like trying to naw your way through a tree! And that stringy even Tarzan and Spiderman passed it off saying they could only swing from so many ropes!

Would sooner eat my own kids!

[Penellype]

Okra. I grew this about 30 years ago and still almost retch when I think of it. Disgusting slimy stuff - yuck.

[kitty12345]

I really like it but I grew up eating it in curries etc

[B Porcupine]

It's (celeriac) on my list of possibly not growing again. I love it and it's really expensive to buy here, but I can never get it to produce a decent root. I read last year it needs lots of water... Might give it a last go this year. And if it's nothing doing, that's it. Never again.

I took the advice of removing the lowest set of leaves around the ball, slowly as it grew. Not quite scientific, but it worked enough that I will do it again! Also, I started them very early as they seem to need a long season...February if my memory serves (ha!).

[4Shoes]

Not had much luck with

Celery, Fennel Bulbs, Marketmore cucumber,

Last chance saloon with Parsnips.

[JustPotteringAbout]

Potatoes. Cheap as raw chips in the shops. There's always some left in the ground that spoils other beds.
Onions (from seed or set). Soil is too heavy for a good root run and it's far too rainy and overcast here. There's a reason they're grown commercially in East Anglia on light soil and cheap in the supermarket.
Garlic. Not enough sun to swell them. No idea how they're grown in Nairn -maybe alluvial soil?
Pak choi. Tried everything direct.shade spring/summer/autumn and they bolt.
Fennel - has never came to anything.
Kohlrabi. Slug magnets.
Cauliflower.
Radishes - not ready, not ready, not ready, not ready, tough and fibrous..
Cucurbs. pernickity with watering. I got some good ones my first year of growing before I started telling myself I can't grow them. Beginner's luck
Mediterranean herbs. This ain't the med.

[Aberdeenplotter]

JPA, is it safe to assume you are in Nairn?

[Snoop Puss]

Mediterranean herbs. This ain't the med.

I'm not in the Med either if you're talking about the typical Med climate. And I too have to be realistic. I love rhubarb and all my Brit friends keep asking me to grow some because they want some too. But my soil is alkaline and, more importantly, it's just too hot in summer.

[JustPotteringAbout]

JPA, is it safe to assume you are in Nairn?

Yes, you'd be safe,.
I'm not though. There's a garlic farm in Nairn that sells seed garlic and I wonder how on earth they grow it successfully there.

[Gordon the gardener]

Cooking okra

Okra. I grew this about 30 years ago and still almost retch when I think of it. Disgusting slimy stuff - yuck.

I always dry fry it, it doesn’t go slimy that way

[Gordon the gardener]

Chitting Sweetcorn

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?

Try chitting sweetcorn. Plastic takeaway box, wet paper towel in bottom, add seeds, cover and leave in warm place. Check daily after three days, when one has sprouted the others soon join them. The sprout is the root so when you pot them they go downwards. Works for me every seed, every time.

[veggiechicken]

My problem is not with growing the plants - its the end result that means its not worth the effort.

[bario1]

I'm not saying never again, but this year I'm not bothering with carrots.

[Gman]

Brokali

So for me the never agains are:
“Brokali”. Grew alright tasted the same as tenderstem broccoli from shops. But the hassle of fighting off pigeons and caterpillars (despite netting) just not worth it for me. Ditto purple sprouting broccoli.

Cucamelons. Big vine very low yield, minging fruit. Cucumbers grew better, had better yield and actually taste nice.

Inca berries (James Wong Sutton range). Outdoor plants small and yield poor. In gh plants enormous, yield poor. Took up valuable tomato or cucumber space. Flavour a bit meh and they’re cheap in shops anyway.

Perpetual spinach. Discovered I don’t like it. It doesn’t taste like real spinach.

Ancho chillis. Never acquired depth of flavour of Mexican ones, so just a fairly tasteless small sweet pepper and took up valuable gh space. Will buy dried.

Probably leeks. Not grown enough to be worth it. Been in ground for months for veg that resemble rather strong tasting spring onions.