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[Sara]

GYO has teamed up with Thompson & Morgan to offer a £10 seed voucher to every forum member who has a gardening tip published in our next Subs' Club newsletter.

Let us know your favourite fruit, veg or herb varieties for sowing or planting in spring – and why you'd recommend them to other members.

[Birdie Wife]

My favourite herb is rosemary, which I love because it's ornamental, evergreen, bees love the flowers, and oh yes! it's delicious in all sorts of things from cakes to roast veg. It doesn't like being cold and waterlogged though so I take cuttings in autumn, overwinter them and plant it in the spring and by winter it's established and more likely to survive the winter storms.

[vegnut]

I will be station sowing Kholl Rabbi i succession every three to four weeks. It's so quick, tasty and easy to grow. I can't be without this veg.

[SlugLobber]

My favourite veg to grow is Courgette. Water it and you can't go far wrong. It's versatile as a cooking ingredient, adaptable to different soils and very productive, so provides incentive to new gardeners. I've never failed yet with this and I'm the world's laziest GYOer!

[allotmentlady]

hmmm my favourite veg is the artichoke, a tasty veg, produces beautiful plowers, which makes the allotment look colourful, produces masses of heads and reappears every year!

[vicky]

Homegrown toms are such a fab taste sensation. My vote is for Ferline Tomatoes...They're great tasting, big and attractive fruits. Easy to grow and have excellent resistance to blight, they don't sucumb till the autumn, long after all the other varieties seem to. Highly reccommended!

[Two_Sheds]

For the first veg of the year (not counting PSB which is planted the previous summer) I really look forward to the first broad beans in May.
I grow Super Aquedulce as an overwintering bean, then Crimson Flowered in Feb - it seems to resist blackfly much better than the white flowered varieties. It's so pretty, I've put a few in my flower border at home too.

[JimmerG]

I can't do without runners and climbing french beans - watching them wind their up bamboo poles, then burst into flower and then you get months of gorgeous beans. Runners prefer cool wet conditions, and french bean prefer hot and dry - so grow both and you're guaranteed beans not matter what the weather!!

[MaureenHall]

Really looking forward to March when I can sow my Asparagus Peas. Mmmmmmmmmmmm the taste of asparagus long after the real asparagus has finished. Well worth trying for the taste as well as the novelty shape of the pods. They can be grown in the garden or in pots and with their pretty red flowers, make them ideal plants for growing in your flower gardens too

[sallym]

Even though I have an allotment, I still have a couple of growbags in the garden for salad leaves. A couple of pinches of mixed salad leaf seeds sown every 2 or 3 weeks from Spring will keep us going right through till Autumn or longer if covered with a cloche. They are right outside your door if you just fancy a few leaves in a sandwich, and they taste soooo much nicer than the bags of leaves you get in the shops

[pigletwillie]

The herb Sorrell,

it takes up hardly any room, its native and it gives a lovely lemon zing to salads, so much so that people ask what it is.

[pigletwillie]

A grape variety called Cardinal.

Its very prolific, tasty and easy maintenance.

This is why I recommend it.

[krazy_krok]

Alpine Strawberries are a must for me. I sow them from seed and plant them out in the lottie in may. They need very little looking after and although they are very small strawberries they have the most fantasic flavour. They never make it home from the lottie - too irresistable! They're shade tollerant so will try planting them in between my raspberries in the fruit cage this year

[T-lady]

I've fallen in love with squashes and pumpkins! Big orange thugs, short chunky butternuts, multi coloured single servers or bright red onion shaped ones - I want them all. They're easy to grow, amazing to watch swelling almost in front of your eyes, wonderful to eat and they store right through winter when you're really short of delicious veg - super foods!

[crichmond]

Aubergine black beauty, start them in a propagator early february and plant on to a 3 inch pot keep indoors or in heated greenhouse until all frosts have past, potting on as necesary when planting into final growing pot use a large 15 or 20 litre pot and keep in greenhouse. Feed as tomato plants. Aubergines do self pollinate but I tend to rub the flower with a finger just to make sure. My plants grew to just under 5 feet high last year and I had fruit right through summer, dont forget to support your plants with canes when they get to around 2 foot high. If you use 3 canes inserted around the edge of the pot you can tie them together at the top to form a cage around the plants.