What AREN'T you going to grow next year

[Welsh Wizard]

Sorry to hear of your disappointing outdoor tomato experience. My row of outdoor Gardeners Delight have been so prolific, we cant keep up with the harvesting! Super tasty and so easy, as the roots can have free run so no need to religiously water! They are on a south facing wall though, with urine feeding when I remembered.

Outdoor toms forever!

[Welsh Wizard]

American Land Cress: I like it but next year it will be grown only as far as a young plant in a salad tray and then sacrificed: It got too hot for me when left to grow to maturity, but was nice when young.

[thyme]

hi, my first attempt at Swiss Chard - the rainbow one produced a bumper crop; unfortunately the first time I cooked it I found out I hated the taste. I will grow a few runner beans Scarlet Emperor from the seed that I saved from this year but only a few; I'm tired of trying to keep up with picking them and have run out of freezer space. Will grow more french dwarf beans instead as I like them in stir-fry.

[Alison]

How did you cook it, I find that it's best to cook the stems and leaves separately as the former needs lots more cooking. I particularly like it sauteed in garlic butter, making me feel hungry thinking about it. At least you got the plot brightened up with the rainbow colours even if you didn't like the taste!

[womble]

I particularly like it sauteed in garlic butter,

Ooo I like that, I have been sat here thinking if it's reasonable to grow chard again, as it's difficult to get the stems a reasonable flavour.
Definitely going to do it now.

[stressedoutmum2]

Definitely not going to bother trying sprouts again. It doesn't matter what measures I take, those bloomin butterflies ALWAYS manage to defeat me and the little green caterpillars just keep on coming. Aaaagggghhh!

[eye1der]

Ditto with the garlic - mine looked so promising then they rotted

I think I have made the decision to not grow broad beans although I still feel I ought to as I love them and it has taken me 33 years to grow to love them but they never ever crop much and they always get black fly. I also won't be growing carrots as the soil is too rocky and I think growing them in pots is a waste of compost; I have also decided that after 33 years I'm not really sure if I am massively keen on them any more.

I definitely won't be growing peas - I'm afraid I think I can get just as good (screams of horror I know) from bags of frozen peas and I don't have a great amount of space.

RtB
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try an autumn sowing that way they will be picked before the black fly get hold..

[Flummery]

Definitely not going to bother trying sprouts again. It doesn't matter what measures I take, those bloomin butterflies ALWAYS manage to defeat me and the little green caterpillars just keep on coming. Aaaagggghhh!

And they are vile. The sprouts. And the caterpillars!

[Alison]

Sprouts are luverly!

[basketcase]

Sprouts are luverly!

Altogether now children...

"Ooooooooooh no they aren't!!" (In preparation for the panto season )

[Snadger]

And they are vile. The sprouts. And the caterpillars!

Can't understand people not liking sprouts but liking cabbage??????

[Flummery]

They aren't the same at all. I have very subtle taste buds!

[basketcase]

Can't understand people not liking sprouts but liking cabbage??????

Don't like any of 'em ('cept red cabbage - pickled); and stuff in coleslaw; oh and Chinese 'seaweed'

They're all 'smelly veg' to me. Always smell as if they've gone off already!

[Snadger]

They aren't the same at all. I have very subtle taste buds!

As a nipper, if I didn't eat mine for one meal they were served up for the next!

Worked though, as now I'll eat just about anything!

[zazen999]

As a nipper, if I didn't eat mine for one meal they were served up for the next!

Worked though, as now I'll eat just about anything!

Cripes - I had to endure that as well. I don't necessarily eat everything now - but I can snaffle down cold curry on toast and cold pizza for breakfast any day of the week. Not that we have curry or pizza ever left over these days but anyway......