What are you growing more of in 2020?

[greenishfing]

Today I was planning what I intend to grow next year and where I was going to plant it.

I've decided I want more aubergines as I really like Delia's recipe for oven cooked ratatouille and it freezes well. I want more beetroot as I ran out this year. At least as many cucumbers as I've found love cucumber pickle and more chillies for chilli jam ( my husbands favourite).
What are other people growing more of and why?

One itsy-bitsy problem. What to grow less of to make room.

[ameno]

More squash.
More Spagna Bianco beans for drying.
More sweet peppers.
More sweet potatoes.

[Snadger]

More Autumn raspberries, more Ailsa Craig toms, more swedes and turnips. Less tatties.

[Penellype]

More fruit:

Hopefully more blueberries as the crop was woeful this year. My 2 normally ultra-reliable bushes at home produced only a bowlful between them and the new bush at the allotment had large numbers of very small fruit which were barely edible. The new bush has been potted up and hopefully there will be lots of fruit this time.

I'm also hoping for first fruits from the minarette cherry, apple and pear trees and possibly the chilean guava, although it is still very small.

[Snoop Puss]

A lot more brassicas and alliums. Have space, just need to clear it. But I won't be growing many potatoes this year. Just Charlottes, but growing them well (I hope).

New to me will be black-eyed beans. I love them and can't buy them here now, so will try growing my own.

[ESBkevin]

For us it's a case of more of the same, but with better timing so we get a longer steadier harvest.

[veggiechicken]

More randomness

[elsie-scot]

More cca salad leaves, peas and hopefully all the lily, dahlia and gladioli that I lashed out £20 on.

[Can the Man]

More carrots, onions, peas, spuds, curly kale, cabbage, and then some sprouts, cauliflower, that I haven’t grown in a few years, and this year I am going to grow some chillies and some tomatoes and cucumbers.

[Chestnut]

Would love to get celery or aubergines to grow well enough that there’s actually something to eat, as they have defeated me so far
Definitely more onions too, we ran out in October this year
I would also like to get a bit better balance of crops throughout the year - something I’ve definitely got better at this year than previously, but still room for improvement

less beetroot, rather had my fill of it this year...
Might not bother with carrots or parsnips either - they’re very reluctant to grow for me, and so works out much cheaper to buy the finished product than seeds...

[Small pumpkin]

Nothing I’ll be down sizing next year.
Except chillies, but I’ll be a lot more selective on my chilli varieties.

[Teds Mum]

I will be growing more of the things we like to eat! Globe artichokes and asparagus, Oca, french beans, acorn and butternut squashes, pickling cucumbers.

[broadway]

Everything, will be the first full year in the allotment

[DannyK]

Cornelian Cherries for first time. Heeled in at moment whilst sorting raised bed.

Given up on aubergines, but for those still growing them go for the smaller ones. They taste far better than those bloated Dutch Zepplins. Try "Imam Bayildi" which can be served hot or coldhttps://ozlemsturkishtable.com/2013/...-imam-bayildi/
Plenty of interesting aubergine recipes in Turkish Cuisine

[Sweet savory]

More onions from seed, leeks, winter squash and autumn cabbage (grew savoy this year but not decided whether to use the rest of the packet or get club root resistant as on 4 year rotation am getting nearer to the club root bit of the plot). Oh and many more runner beans rather than french.