Recommendations please

[MrsC]

Hello everyone,

Sorry to ask, this has probably been asked lots before, but I have just started a list of some of the veg etc I want to grow on my plot this year. Any recommendations on varieties on the list below please. Thanks for your expertise and patience. x

Onions etc - red, white, spring, shallots, spring.
Potatoes - 1st, 2nd, main.
Beans - french, runner.
Calabrese, PSB
Peas
Cauliflower
Sweetcorn (a cpl of varieties)
Courgettes - green/yellow
Carrots
Turnips
Swede
Rhubarb
Raspberries
Asparagus
Pumpkins

I have grown some of the above but was just wondering what everyone's experience of growing different varieties was like.

[sewer rat]

Different strokes for different folks but the varieties I will deffo be growing again include the following;
Potatoes ; 1sts - Lady Christl, 2nds Charlotte
Calabrese ; Marathon
Peas ; Early -Kelvedon Wonder, Maincrop - Hurst Greenshaft
Cauliflower ; All Year Round
Courgettes ; Green - Ambassador, Yellow - Taxi
Turnips - Purple Top Milan
Swede - Brora

Anything not listed is either because I don't grow it or because I am still trying to find a variety I am happy with for up here.

[ann-the-nan]

Recommendations please

Everyone has their own favourites but here are mine. They all did well for me in spite of our terrible soil.
Carrots:- Parmex for growing in tubs, etc. (We don't use big ones as there is only 2 of us) With longer roots I did Chantenay Red Cored 2, and Nantes Frubund because they are quick croppers.
Peas:- Meteor.
Beans. Runners:- Lady Di, nice long ones.
Dwarf French:- Sonate, or Kingshorn Wax for yellow ones. (May try purple ones as well)
Kidney Beans:- Yin Yang. They have black and white seeds so are fun to grow. They are delicious and have a taste of their own.
I shall grow all of those again.
I hope this is useful.

[SarzWix]

Just a few;
Onions sets - Red Emperor, Hercules
Garlic - Wight Cristo
French beans - Purple Teepee dwarf, and Cobra climbing
Runner bean - Enorma
Peas - Waverex petit pois
Sweetcorn - Swift
Carrots - Sugarsnax, Red Samurai, Yellowstone
Swede - Best of All & Brora
Cabbage - Savoy Tarvoy. (ooops, you didn't ask for cabbage)

[GeorgieP]

I've grown peppers and chillies in pots every year for last two years to great success (although not on your list)

Courgettes (green) - defender is pretty rampant, despite getting powdery mildew, it kept producing
Runners - scarlett emperor - again lots of cropping, always does well

[Two_Sheds]

These were the ones that did best for me (I usually grow more than one variety of each veg)

Onions - Stuttgarter
Potatoes - Arran Pilot, Pink Fir Apple
tall French Beans - Black Croatian, Yin Yang, Cherokee
dwarf French - Canadian Wonder, Purple Teepee
Peas - mine always get powdery mildew
Sweetcorn - Swift, Conqueror
Carrots - Adelaide, Purple Haze
Pumpkins - Mars grew fast, Golden Nugget stored better

[MrsC]

Just back from Netto where seeds were 19p a pack, have bought the following to add to whatever else I have in my seed box.

Although I am looking to get some other varieties as mentioned above.

Sweetcorn - Incredible F1 (sugar enhanced?)
Courgette - all green bush
Broccoli - Early Purple Sprouting
Lettuce - little gem
Carrot - early nantes 2
Radish - sparkler 3
Carrot - autumn king 2
Runner Bean - scarlet emperor
Dwarf Bean - tendergreen
Spring Onion - white lisbon
Broad Bean - Bunyards exhibition
Lettuce - all year round
Pea - kelvedon wonder
Radish - french breakfast 3
Leek - musselburgh
Swede - best of all
Runner bean - enorma
Brussels sprout - evesham special
Cauliflower - all year round
Onion - ailsa craig

Have got loads of different toms as well to grow at home (been collecting those) plus lots of salad leaves etc.

[Alison]

Think that one of the things I realise from this thread is that we all have our favourites which I presume are dependant on taste, climate, soil etc. Interesting to hear what people like but at the end of the day we have to make up our own minds - which is sometimes very difficult!