What Did You Grow This Year..?

[braders]

Evening Grapes
As the title says...this has been my first year with a plot again for quite a few years as some of you might know...this will help me ( although fairly experienced ) and maybe the newbies on here gauge what to grow in the future.
Cheers
braders...

[tigerfan63]

I have just got a plot but it isnt ready to be used yet so I have grown everything on a small bit of garden. So this year I have grown;

Potatoes- in containers, got a good amount of small salad potatoes
Tomatoes-as yet no fruit, still ripening
Sweet peppers-not looking to good
Courgettes-were disappointing, only a few small fruit this year
Cucumbers-only 1 so far but the plant is outside, wasnt expecting much
PSB-first time I've tried it and it's gone quite well
Onions-didnt grow to a good size
Red cabbage-slight problems with caterpillars
Lettuce-worked better then I expected, probably most sucessful crop

Hopeful next year, the weather will be better and I can find a way to stop the white butterflies

[sewer rat]

In the tunnel;
Early Cabbage x 100
Tomatoes (five varieties) x 50 plants
Cucumber (three varieties) x 25 plants
Scallions x 400 cell blocks
Butternut Squash x 5 plants
Chillies x 19 plants
Dwarf French Beans x 72 plants
Aubergines x 26 plants
Chard x 50 plants
Spinach x 50 plants
CCA Salad Leaves - x loads
Lettuce x 100 every fortnight
Beetroot x 100 plants

In the Field;
Cabbage (five varieties) x 1000
Red Cabbage x 250
Calabrese x 750
Milan Turnips x 200 metres
Onions x 25kg of sets
Carrots (two varieties) x 1000m
Potatoes (four varieties) x 125kg seed tubers
PSB x 500
Brussels Sprouts 500
Swede x 500m
Kohl Rabi x 100
Broad Beans x 2kg seeds
Peas (two varieties) x 2kg seeds
Courgettes (six varieties) x 200 plants
Squash (two varieties) x 30 plants
Kale (two varieties) x 500
Jerusalem Artichokes x 40kg seed tubers
Cauliflower x 250

Hotel Walled Garden

Potatoes (two varieties)
Cabbage (five varieties)
Calabrese
Brussels Sprouts
Kale (two varieties)
Milan Turnips
Spinach
Tomatoes (three varieties)
Chillies
Aubergines
Kohl Rabi x 150
Florence Fennel x 150
Celeriac x 300
Celery x 100
Runner Beans x 250
Climbing French Beans x 200
Broad Beans
Jerusalem Artichokes
Chinese Cabbage x 100

(plus strawbs, rasps, blackcurrants, redcurrants, gooseberries, loganberries, plums, pears, figs and apples - all already in situ. I also planted an asparagus bed and grew Globe Artichokes from seed - the former will crop in year three, the artichokes next year)

[reetnproper]

OK here's my list:

In the Small Green house (6x4) on 2 tier staging, in pots:

Iceburg lettuce;
Lollo Rossa;
Cos mixed salad leaves;
American Land cress (dead easy to grow and very peppery);
Rocket;
Kohl Rabi (as the mice ate the ones I planted out); and
Coriander.

Large greenhouse (8x6):

Ailsa Craig tomatoes;
Gardeners delight cherry tomatoes;
Cucumber;
Chilli peppers; and
Sweet peppers.

In the raised beds under netting:

Carrots x 2 varieties;
Parsnips;
Beetroot x 3 varieties;
Spring onions x 3 varieties;
Normal onions from seed; and
Leeks.

In normal beds:

Sweetcorn;
Pumpkins;
Wintersquash;
Swede;
Purple Sprouting broccoli;
Calabrese;
Cobnut squash;
Runner beans;
Borlotti beans.

In large tubs, against fencing with wire supports:

Runner beans;
Borlotti beans;
French climbing beans; and
Cucumber.

Regards
Reet
x

[kiwirach]

this is my first full year of growing.....

i've grown or currently am growing....
potatoes,
onions
garlic
ball carrots in the ground, and normal in containers,
lettuce
tomatoes...just starting to set fruit
leeks
french beans....green and yellow, and hopefully purple if the grow!!.
beans for drying....red kidney
runner beans.....3 varieties
sweetcorn
sweet potatoe
turnips
kale
cabbage
cauli
PSB
parsnip in containers

strawberrys
raspberrys
blackcurrents
tayberry
boysenberry
lemon
apple


gosh!, i'm quite proud of myself....thats a good list!!!

[FROSTYFRECKLE]

Failed - all of my tomatoes (well not strictly true my early sowings were left with my old neighbour who informed me the toms are lovely - Grushovka and Orange Banana) My later sowings all had accidents - my last two plants fell off my windowsill this morn about 1am
Sutherland Kale - Cabbage White.
PSB - Cabbage White.

Peas - Hatif D'annonay - yum, yum.
Onions - loads. Winter bunching onions and White Lisbon in.
Lettuce - Golden Purslane and Tom Thumb. May do Lambs Lettuce over winter.
Chillies - doing fine - Pretty in Purple, Lemon Drop, Iranian Red, and Gelbe Kirschen.
Chocolate Sweet Pepper - doing fine, not ripe yet.
Potatoes - Charlotte, Vivaldi and Foremost (would highly recommend Foremost, good cropper) All cropped. Christmas tatties in.
Oca - Doing lovely.
Achocha - swamping my front garden, lots of baby Achochas.
Beans - Trail of Tears, Early Warwick, Minidor, Borlotto - no complaints.
Carrots - loads. Christmas carrots are already in.
Beetroot - bolthardy and Sanguina. Going to try saving my own seed for the Sanguina. Beetroot for winter in.
Greek brassicas (from Ailsasyl and Happybunny) - green one, Cabbage white got into and decimated it. Purple one ignored by Cabbage White - tasty, peppery.
Lemon Cucs - ask my old neighbour
Himalayan Strawbs - a few strawbs but plants only a year old.
Rhubarb -
Blueberries - excellent crop, still cropping.
Cranberries - still to come.
Wonderberry - no ripe berries as yet.
Honeyberry - no crop, plants too young.

Think that's all

[Alison]

In my first year at the allotment I have grown / am growing the following:

Fruit - raspberries, black currants, white currant, red currants, strawberries, blue berries, red gooseberries and green gooseberries.

Herbs - too many to list

In proper 4' by 10' beds - parsnips, radish, carrots, beetroot, shallots, red & white onions, leeks, tomatoes, chillies, courgettes, chard, spinach, sweet corn, mange tout, peas, broad beans, bolotti beans, runner beans, French beans, spuds (earlies and main crop), swede, turnips, kale, red cabbage, calabrase, winter cabbage, spring cabbage, PSB, sprouts.

Dotted round the plot - various squash, more sweet corn, marrows, salad stuffs (lettuce and the like), cucumbers and some second early spuds.

Probably a few other things but that's all I can think of for now.

Next year I hope to have a polytunnel so that I can grow better tomatoes, maybe sweet potatoes and generally extent the season.

[Mrs Dobby]

You sure you want to know????

Herbs
Parsley, Coriander, Basil, Rosemary, Mint, Chives, Sage, Thyme and Peppermint.

Fruit
6 crowns rhubarb, 65 Raspberry Canes (in fedge), 5 blackberry canes (around edges), 6 blueberry bushes, 2 pear trees, 3 eating apple trees, 3 cooking apple trees, 1 cherry tree, 1 grapevine (trained up the front of the shed), 160 strawberry plants, 40 in the plot, 100 in planters and 20 in hanging baskets!

Maincrops
Garlic
3 varieties, 140 plants
Onions
140 Sturon from set (overwintered), 140 Red Barron from set (overwintered), 120 White onions from set (spring planted), 100 Ailsa Craig from seed, 25 Bunyards Exhibition from seed, 50 red barron from seed. 60 spring onions (so far) Total 575 maincrop onions!
Leeks
Musselburgh, 120 seedlings growing away nicely to be planted once the first early spuds are out!
Spuds
40 first earlies, 40 second earlies, 20 early main and 20 late maincrops! Total 120 tubers!
Sweet Potatoes, 3 tubs full, 9 plantlets in total!
Brassicas
20 brussel sprouts (2 varieties), 20 broccolli (2 varieties) 20 caulies / romanesco broccolli, 60 cabbages (3 varieties, golden acre primo, red drumhead and greyhouse, 20 each)
Broad Beans
70 plants (3 varieties)
Runner Beans
48 growing, 2 varieties!
Borlotti beans, 26 planted!
French Beans
50 plants of 3 varieties!
Kentucky Climbing Beans 26 planted
Peas
2 x 10' rows Klevedon (approx 120), 1 x 10' row Twinkle (approx 40), 1 x 6' row Mange Tout (approx 30)!
Courgettes
9 plants (2 varieties)
Cucumbers
Marketmore (1 plant, we lost 2 others of another variety!), 2 Telegraph, 2 Melonie, 2 Burpless Tasty Green
Roots
Jerusalem Artichokes, 1 bed full!
2 x 14' rows Swedes (2 variety, approx 60), 2 x 14' rows Turnips (2 variety, approx 80), 5 12' rows parsnips (3 variety, approx 100), 10 x 12' rows carrots (5 variety, approx 300)
Sweetcorn
80 plantlets of 3 varieties in total, poor germination this year!
Squashes / Pumpkins
50 plants from 8 varieties
Celery
60 plants (overwintered) Lathom self blanching + 60 seedlings planted on the plot!
Salad
25 beetroot seedlings, 12 lettuce salad bowl, 20 lettuce little gem, 8 lettuce iceberg.
Radish, 4 varieties, interplanted with parsnips + 2 x 8' rows!
Tomatoes
38 in the 3 greenhouses, 32 outdoor toms, 12 varieties!
Peppers
36 on the plot in greenhouses, 14 planted up into pots in the back yard greenhouse, 21 in the plastic walk in greenhuse + lean to, 16 outdoor on the plots! Total 87 plants of 7 varieties!
Chillies
54 plants of 9 varieties in total!
Aubergines
10 plants, 3 varieties!

Flowers
Nicotiana, Foxgloves, Sweet Peas, Marigolds, Asteria, Fuschia, Lavender, roses

Plus an apiary with 3 hives of bees in it!

[JILLY JACKSON]

Hi,Kelvendon wonder peas,hispi cabbage ,runner beans scarlet emperor,beetroot boltardy,squash,avalon f1.broccoli early purple sprouting,leek ,musselburgh.tomatoes,gardeners delight,money maker,shirley f1.Hanging basket sweet yellow(tiny)but yum.polycress,little gem,romain lettuce oh lollo rosso too. spring onions,radish-little reds good,purple ones,not good.Greyhound cabbage.King edward potatoes,wilja potatoes,courgettes f1 green bush ,carrots early nantes,chard,onions,garlic,blueberries,apples james grieve,family tree,little red sweet ones.worcester permain,bramley.Pears unknown make but lovely.All very successful bar tomatoes which have cropped so heavily ive had to cut lower trusses off.

[Sprocket*]

This year we grew:
Courgettes - they have gone mad (must listen when told can have only one plant),
Mixed winter squash,
Onion swuash,
Pumpkins,
Broas Beans (x2)
Peas (x2)
Parsnips
Salad Leaves
Radish
Spring Onions
Onions red and white by the ton
Climbing french beans (ravaged by slugs)
Potatoes x3 varities
Kale red and normal
French beans
Beetroot (yellow and red) - very poor
Red Cabbage,
Romanesco
Calabrese
Raspberry
Black currants
Strawberry
Gooseberry x3
Logan berry
Tay berry
Black Berry x3
Herbs
Rhubarb
Carrots (health master and Rainbow) best ever in pots
Sunflowers
Added a Victoria Plum, a desert apple, and a cooking apple

Blueberry plant by the back door - rescued 4 berrys, rest eaten by Baby Blackbird!
I think that is it - ran out of space so am increasing growing space for next year...

Tomatoes given by neighbour in the conservatory - ripening nicely
Cucumber in the conservatory
Little tomatoes in pots on patio - just ripening.

[potty_pete]

Tried to limit myself this year to things that we would actually eat....

Tomatoes
Peas
Sugar snap peas
Leeks
Red Onions
White Onions
Spring Onions
Chives
Chillies
Rocket
Cos
Carrots
Potatoes
Parsley
Mixed Salad
Spinach

Will probably grow the same again next year except the sugar snap and not sure about carrots. They were a disaster last year and haven't dared to even look this year yet!!!

[RobintheBobin]

I've only got a tiddly amount of space so feel somewhat inferior to all those fabulous lists

Not So Great Crops
Broad Bean - hardly any as flowers turned black and dropped off.
Courgettes - only a small crop so far. Think experimental mulching has b*ggered them up.
Early Potatoes - one tattie per plant (I think that's a record) but due to lack of water due to hedge taking it all.
Purple Podded Peas - very few pods
Yellow Dwarf French Beans - never do great so going for a different variety next year

Okayish Crops
Red Onions - didn't swell hugely so only golf ball sized and some bolted in the hot weather of June
Beetroot - hot weather seemed to check their swelling but they may be picking up now.

Great Crops
Mange Tout - fab, fab, fab and will grow loads more next year as they keep cropping and have done for weeks
Leeks - looking great so far
Kale - in and looking great so far
PSB - in and looking great so far
Shallots - loads of them although small but have told myself that this is how they should be as they are fancy french variety
Salad Leaves - fab and plentiful
Lettuces - great and couldn't eat them quick enough
Runner Beans
Purple Climbing Beans
Flat Climbing French Beans
Swiss Chard Bright Lights
Raspberries - only second year but got loads
Blackcurrants - huge and Billy blackbird didn't get a single one har har har
Strawberries - slugs got most as we went on hols

[braders]

Thanks for all the replies Grapes...this has been a great help and I hope it has to others

Cheers
braders

[matthew2riches]

Not a lot sadly :-(

Lots of work and little allotment time has meant most things I did plant died and the things I were going to plant never got planted.

I have had a good crop of weeds though!

[Maximillian]

Hi. This year as good as last:
potatoes all great
courgettes - Italian pale ones grew great so did blacks. The jurys out on yellows.
Beets disaster first crop, second crop better
carrots delicious and not too much carrot fly damage
gooseberries the best ever
raspberries ok but not as fab as last year
lettuces really good
Brussels sprouts a bit eaten but good buds
red onions amazing will definitely grow again
radishes total disaster this year - who CANT grow radishes?!!
Runner beans poor but borlotti better
peas poor
tomatoes lots of tomatoes all from seed. Some now ripening.
Leeks look ok but seemed to have stopped growing
spring onions another poor crop
sage good but basil poor
think that's it!