Something new for 2021?

[Nicos]

Each year I try to grow something new.
I’ve not decided what yet and am looking for some inspiration

Last year it was Pineapple tomatoes ...all 18 plants ( normally I only grow a few toms as I tend to lose them to blight)

What are other people trying out just for the heck of it?...flowers/ fruit/ veg/ shrubs/ trees/ different techniques.....

[Snoop Puss]

Still really keen to try kohl rabi so hoping this might be the year.

[burnie]

I'm not growing anything wildly different this year, Citrina sweet peppers and Black Russian tomatoes are about as radical as I shall be getting this year. Growing watercress after a gap of a couple of years too.

[Purple Primrose]

I fancy growing some dye plants so I've bought some weld, woad and dyer's greenweed seeds.

[Penellype]

I've got some trailing antirrhinum seeds to try - not seen these before but hopefully they will make a change from begonias and fuchsias on the fence.

[Jungle Jane]

I’ve got something new out there Last year we went to the garden centre & I bought a huge bulb that looks like an octopus & I planted it in a sunny spot,hopefully it’ll grow,I took a photo of it before planting with the name of it - Eremurus Robustus -

[Purple Primrose]

Looks like something that could grab hold of a ship and drag it under.

[nick the grief]

this year I'm trying Daphne Mezereum, Acer Palmatum atropupureum, Centaurea Macrocephela ( Giant Knapweed ... ) and Cephalerea Gigantea ( Giant Scabious) ... oh and some eglantine roses to plant down the lotty in the hedge

[B Porcupine]

This year Numex Garnet peppers to smoke and make smoked paprika - hopefully! And some perrenial wildflowers to add to the wildflower area

[mothhawk]

I shall be growing chillies for the very first time - indoors on the windowsill as that's the only place warm enough, unless we have another scorching summer........

[OakR]

I've got some pea seeds (only 10 of each) of Epicure, Kent Blue (the one I am most excited about), Latvian Large Grey, Gladstone so these wil all be new to me, as will growing something solely for the purpose of keeping the seed to grow next year! I'm also going to try the Gutter method for the peas, both for these and my normal peas, but especilly these as I can't take mice losses with this small number.

I'm for the first time NOT growing cucumbers and potatoes.

I'm going to try no-dig on 3/4 of the plot, I've tried it (accidentally) on a small area before and a fellow plot holder tried it more widely last year with good success and much less weeds (which is very attractive to me!).

I got some chickens so am trying an area where I have just dumped the poo onto the ground on a bed and will later in the year try planting some squash plants and seeing what happens! It will have been there around 5 months or so I think by then.

Tomatoes just one new one (which is new in itself) hopefully Jaunne Flamme.

I am going to try and plant a lot more plants this year and herbs with the veg, not 100% sure on all, but definitely Borage, Chives, Marigolds, and seperately a load of Sunflowers (though most will get eaten by the parakeets and squirrels)

I reserve the right to completely change my mind tomorrow, and any other day after that!

[Snoop Puss]

I reserver to right to complete change my mind tomorrow, and any other day after that!

Spoken like a true gardener! Best wishes for a great growing year.

[Martin H]

Everything will be different for me this year. I will have a new garden in a new part of the country (Greater Manchester). I will have a bigger greenhouse and quite a bit more space for vegetables!


I don't know when we will be able to actually move in, apparently moves are taking ages at the moment. But I've got some potatoes chitting, some onions in modules and some peppers and sweet peas started. Meanwhile I'm dreaming about where to put things.

I'm going to splash out on a load of compost and do some Charles Dowding style no-dig beds, first time for me. That way I can get the potatoes straight in the ground straight away on top of cardboard from the house move. The question is, where to put them! The back of the house faces SSW, so there's going to be plenty of sun everywhere in summer. Decisions, decisions...

[Ms-T]

That's a nice big garden. hope you get to move soon.

[ameno]

To peach trees from seed count?
I "sowed" the seeds last August, in damp compost in a bad in the fridge (they need a cold spell to trigger germination). About 8 weeks later they all started sprouting in the fridge, so I potted them into 9cm pots and have kept them in my conservatory over winter. They have been steadily growing all winter, and the biggest two are now almost 6 inches tall. That's an impressive rate of growth considering how cold it has been out there.