Growing something new to you in 2020?

[Mamzie]

I am mostly trying new varietys to me this year. Super excited with some of my new tomato seeds I bought the names alone are making me quiver...

Plus am trying to grow aubergine for the first time - not sure what to do with it through

And its the first time for about 25 years I will be finally getting to grow Alderman peas after many months of trying to convince Mr Mamz they were great plants.

Not sure if the fact myself and my 9 year old will be trying to build and nourish a diy wormery for the first ever time could be included lol

[Teds Mum]

Got some lentils from the Eden project - should probably plant them this year as they’re going out of date. According to the rest of the internet you grow them same time as peas and broad beans. Might go bung them in a tray now and see what happens.

[veggiechicken]

^^^ I have a packet of those lentils too
Maybe I'll join you, Ted's Mum.

[Mamzie]

What!!! I can get lentils to grow here... We use stacks of those...

(Trying desperately to restrain myself now. )

[FBI]

Nothing exciting but the GYO mag Celeriac - I wouldn't have bought it but it was there - and... peas.

Peas? Whoop-de-doo, I hear you say. Bear with me...

Falling down the YouTube rabbit hole last night I found a video of Huw Thingummy talking about how he'd chucked a load of Batchelor's Bigga dried peas, the sort you use for mushy peas, into a bed without staking and left them alone, barely even watering them. "Ooh", thinks I, must remember that. And then, hey presto, a trip to Sainsbury's today, 60p a box and now I have 7 12L buckets with homemade compost topped off with MPC and 6 peas in each. It's fun to experiment :-)

[Trouvere]

a load of Batchelor's Bigga dried peas, the sort you use for mushy peas

Hodmedod's Black Badger carlin peas are quite viable, despite the box saying they are oven dried. I grew them a few years ago. Having dug out the attached photo, I discover it was back in 2012, which is just flatly ridiculous. Beautiful flowers, anyway.

[FBI]

Hodmedod's Black Badger carlin peas are quite viable, despite the box saying they are oven dried. I grew them a few years ago. Having dug out the attached photo, I discover it was back in 2012, which is just flatly ridiculous. Beautiful flowers, anyway.

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Oo, that's really pretty!

[bramble]

Going to try growing Cape gooseberry Little Lantern.
Also squash Uchiki Kuri.

[Zonmatron]

I too got given lentils for Christmas, and chickpeas.

Mind you I'm new to my plot so even mundane things are going to be new to me, but I am most excited about the things my plot neighbors won't have tried.

Has anyone got any experience of lentils? Ie, how many plants should I aim for for a decent yield?

[monkeyboy]

I'm going to try brussel sprouts. Not tried it before and not sure how much space it'll take in SFG.

[Trouvere]

Has anyone got any experience of lentils? Ie, how many plants should I aim for for a decent yield?

I have no personal experience, but the wisdom of the internet is that you would be doing well to get 60 lentils from one plant, which is about 2.5 grams. You could sow 12x12 = 144 plants in a square metre, so every 3 square metres would yield very roughly 1 kg of harvested lentils.

[Ewa]

Quinoa is my new experiment for this year, only recently I discovered that if you eat it will not kill you and taste really... nice so will try to grow few plants in the corner of my plot.

[Dynamo]

A friend asked me to grow Kohlrabi for her so I'm going to try that. I've never tasted it myself so it's completely new on me.

[Small pumpkin]

Just googled Kermit aubergine. They are cute.

I’m only growing 18 things plus chillies ( unlike my normal 99 things plus chillies).
Nothing new and not many of anything.

I’ve just realised the variety of cucumber I’m growing this year is new to me! Never grown Beth alpha before. And 9 new varieties of chilli

I’m still only growing 18 things plus chillies

[Snoop Puss]

Well, that was an interesting set of posts on lentils. I'll be trying black-eyed beans and chickpeas this year. Might try lentils too. Possibly Puy lentils, as they're really expensive here and very difficult to find. Thanks for sharing the info, guys.