Over the top gardening

[Small pumpkin]

This thread is the opposite end of the scale to VC's no fuss gardening.

Who's going all out growing more than they've ever grown before?

I'm going for the most productive year ever. Especially as this in all reality will be my last year here in this wonderful garden . ( I would kill to stay, apparently I'm not allowed to do that ).

So my plan is to grow and sell as much as possible. I'll restock my own supply as well but as I've go so much in the freezers from last year still. There won't be much needed.
It's going to be all stuff I know grows here. No experimenting.........well apart from the little chilli challenge .

I'll be growing this lot ( I always grow this lot, but going with more). Quantity to be decided
Runner bean
dwarf French bean
Pea
Swiss chard
Spinach
Kale
cabbage
cauliflower
Broccoli
Brussels sprouts
Courgette
Pumpkin
squash
Swede
Turnip
Leek
Beetroot
Carrots
radish
Spring Onion
Onions
Tomatoes
Lots of Chillies (60+,not including challenge)
Sweet pepper
Cucumber
Aubergine
melons
lettuce
Lot of Baby salad mix
Lots of micro greens / herbs
Water Cress
Spuds

[burnie]

My plan this year is to grow what I can't buy in the shops, so trench celery, biiiiiig onions and (hopefully)monster leeks are top of my list, lots of carrots of varieties not usually in the shops will pretty much fill the raised beds. Tattie varieties not in the shops and some decent brassicas are in the rabbit proof plot and the greenhouse will be tommies of 6 varieties, chilles(only 2 types) butternut squash,ridge cukes and sweetcorn, that will be about it apart from fruit like strawbs,rasps, guzzgogs, apples and blackcurrants.

[Penellype]

I wouldn't say I'll be growing more than ever before, because that was probably last year, and I still have serious gluts of things (notably tomatoes). Still, I'll be growing the following:

Staple crops
Potatoes Nicola, Charlotte, Desiree plus either Arran Pilot or Lady C depending if I can get Lady C
Carrots Nantes Frubund, Marion, Eskimo, Nandor, Sweet Candle, Samurai
Spinach Amazon, Red Vein
Beetroot Boldor, Boltardy
Lettuce various especially Warpath, Salad Bowl and a couple of mixes
Onions Sturon
Leeks Oarsman, Northern Lights, Musselburgh
Peas Meteor, Hurst Greenshaft, Terrain and Geisha if I can get it
Beans Stardust (runner) and Sonesta (dwarf french)
Broccoli etc PSB Rioja, Calabrese Sakura and probably Brokali Endeavour
Tomato Shirley, Balconi red, Ferline, Sungold, Brandy Boy and probably Oh Happy Day
Cucumber Cucino
Parsnip probably Hollow Crown

Extras to fit in around the place
Turnip Oasis
Kohlrabi Azure Star
Courgette zucchini
Florence Fennel Romanesco
Cabbage Hispi, Spring Hero
Celeriac Monarch

Indoors only
Pepper Snackbite
Basil
Microgreens

Fruit
Apple James Grieve
Apricot Aprigold (if it flowers this year)
Blackcurrant Ben Sarek
Blueberries Bluecrop, Dixie and hopefully Pink Lemonade
Gooseberry Captivator
Raspberry Glen Ample, Ruby Falls (if it survives last year's sawfly attack)
Rhubarb (unknown variety)
Strawberry Marshmello, Elsanta, Just Add Cream, Buddy, Honeoye, unknown variety at allotment, possibly Malwina, Framberry
White currant White Versailles

Hopeful rather than confident
Cauliflower Maybach (if I can get it), Snowball
Romanesco broccoli
Melon Magenta

Might also grow
Choy Sum, Komatsuna, Mizuna, Namenia, Mibuna, Pak Choi
Parsley
Kale Red Russian
Summer Leek Lincoln
Swede Gowrie
Sweet Potato

Thinking of purchasing a couple of patio fruit trees, possibly cherries and/or a pear

No doubt other things or varieties that pop up unexpectedly will be added to the list!

[Snoop Puss]

I'm definitely growing more, as I was thwarted last year, but still in the deciding phase.

[Lumpy]

I feel so inadequate. I also feel immense jealousy.
Hey Ho.
Good luck all.

[Chestnut]

I also will be growing more. I didn’t spend every spare weekend from September to December, plus 2 weeks annual leave, digging out carpets and building terraced beds just to leave them fallow this year....

Soft fruit was planted last autumn (raspberries, currants and one goosegog), so should hopefully start cropping this year.
Planning to trial hotbed growing with some early salads, spring onions beetroot and parisian carrots.
Rest of the plot will contain much the same as last year, but with tomatoes in GH rather than outdoors. I am also hoping to finally grow a parsnip (2 failed years so far), as well as some celery, aubergine and giant pumpkins I was given for xmas.

[Guest]

Definitely more veggy growing this year as last year it was de-prioritised

Growing what ever takes my fancy.
Growing pumpkins in flower beds I don't fill.
Trying to grow a giant pumpkin in the meadow patch.
First time grafting toms and cucurbits.
First year trying to breed my own toms.
Grafting apples after a couple of years rest
Creating a new herb border.

Just a few things to tie me over

[Chrissyteacup]

I think I’m joining in with this movement- no idea where I’m going to put everything this year!!! Going to be using both greenhouses (they came with the house lucky me!!) I’m considering digging up more of the lawn to make my plot bigger.... but maybe I should wait another year so I’m more experienced and haven’t got so much decorating to do.....

[bikermike]

I'm hoping to grow a lot more this year, but I'm slightly stymied by being away over easter, so everything will either need to be after that, or sufficiently robust to survive time without watering (auto system in the greenhouse). Careful perusing of planting times required...

[SarrissUK]

I'm going way over the top this year too!

My list of things to grow:
Permanent features:
Apple, Plum, Pears, Gooseberries, Raspberries, Strawbs, Blueberries, Red and black currants, rhubarb

Runner bean
Butter beans (massive ones I’ve found in a supermarket in Sweden) – happy to share if you send me a stamped envelope!
Dwarf French bean
Pea – for the first time for years. Let’s see if I can get the hang of shelling them lol
Swiss chard
Spinach
Kale – at least four varieties, but need lots as I eat heaps of it.
Cabbage – winter, hispi, red, all sorts
Brussels sprouts
Courgette, yellow and green, (no round ones – disappointment of the year last year), and tromboncino of course!
Pumpkin, spaghetti squash
Swede
Turnip
Leek
Garlic
Beetroot
Carrots
Spring Onion
Onions – from seed
Tomatoes – lots and lots!
Chillies
Sweet pepper
Cucumber
Salad mix
Spuds
Asparagus
And I’m sure there’s more – I just can’t think of it right now! Basically, my seed box will vomit most of it out this year, as it desperately needs refreshing

[Chippy Minton]

We've got a new bit of plot, currently covered in soggy cardboard, so will definitely be growing more. Don't know what yet though, was going to look through the seed catalogues but decided to list out the existing packets first. The list went on and on and on; had to start a new page and I'm still missing some PSB seeds I'm sure were left over and a half packet of Big Daddy tomatoes I came across the other week......

[Nannysally99]

I’m with Lumpy, feeling slightly inadequate
Spuds, runners, salad crops, carrots, tomatoes
Too many caterpillars on the brassica experiment last year, so they are out
I’m still open for trying something new though

[Guest]

I hate these months I keep buying things. So this year I will be revisiting some poor past attempts and some new weird and wonderfuls

Salsola komarovii, Okahijiki
Minutina, 'Erba Stella'
Broccoli Kailan 'Kichi'
Wasabi
Samphire - Marsh Samphire
Samphire - Rock Samphire
Watercress
Japanese Wineberry
and possibly szechuan

on top of everything else

wish me luck

least us nutters are not alone

[bramble]

Growing the usual staples for me.
Tomatoes.
Potatoes.
Mixed salad crops.
Spring onions.
Peppers.
Cucumber.
Gooseberry.
Strawberry.
Raspberry.
Plum.
Bought a packet of red cabbage so going to try a few heads.
Also growing some calabrese,
First time trying....patty pan squash.. I dont know anything about it but giving it a try.
Flowers, several but dahlias and sweetpeas will be top of my list.
Oh, and some carrots, Rondo.

[veggiechicken]

Norfolk grey (not Bramble)

I'm sure I have those weird things too, lurking somewhere. Despite all I said, I may have to join you with these.