What AREN'T you going to grow next year

[Incy]

Sounds like my tromba of Albenga. Haven't yet harvested any so no idea what they taste like but the plants are absolutely massive!

[elsie-scot]

short ball carrots - too much hassle preparing to eat!

[braders]

PSB, takes up too much room for what its worth.

[Sonata]

18 courgette plants
37 tomato plants
50 runner bean plants

50 runner bean plants! OMG. I thought I overdid it with 12 (for two adults and a toddler).

I don't think I'll bother with amaranths next year - they're pretty, but no one is eating them, not even the pests (well, not much. They're too busy scoffing my oriental greens, the sods). Other than that, I'm pretty happy with most of what I've tried and I'll be be trying a few new things (broad beans) next year - but fewer plants, I seem to have excessively green fingers.

Doubling the number of Gardener's Delights though, so I can oven dry them. *drools*.

[Scottishnewbie]

50 runner bean plants! OMG. I thought I overdid it with 12 (for two adults and a toddler).

I don't think I'll bother with amaranths next year - they're pretty, but no one is eating them, not even the pests (well, not much. They're too busy scoffing my oriental greens, the sods). Other than that, I'm pretty happy with most of what I've tried and I'll be be trying a few new things (broad beans) next year - but fewer plants, I seem to have excessively green fingers.

Doubling the number of Gardener's Delights though, so I can oven dry them. *drools*.

Sonata, how do you oven dry your gardeners delight please? and then how do you use them?

[Sonata]

Scottish newbie - I used a recipe (apparently from Nigella) posted on another thread by Lainey Lou. I adapted it slightly.

Mix 1 tsp salt (I used sea salt), 1/4 tsp sugar, 2 tabs olive oil and about 1 tab (I used a bunch of fresh) thyme. Cut the toms in half, and place cut side up on a baking tray. Drizzle the oil mixture over the toms, bake in the oven at 100 degrees Celsius for about 2-3 hours.

When they're done, put them in an airtight jar (kilner or similar) and top up with olive oil til all the tomatoes are covered.

They can be added to salads, popped in sauces (anything that requires sundried/chopped tomatoes), eaten straight from the jar (that's what I'm doing at the moment)..put on pizzas etc.

Be warned..they are VERY addctive. I started off with a 2L ice cream tub of toms, had half a (large) kilner jar of the dried tomatoes..and 24 hours later had 1/4 of a jar of the tomatoes. Mmm.

[Flobalob]

I will grow pretty much the same again next year.
The only change will be a reduction in growing Aubergines. I grew 9 plants this year and have run out of ideas of what to do with so many fruits. So maybe just 3 plants next year.

[womble]

PSB, takes up too much room for what its worth.

Wow, I disagree with that! It does stay there for a long time, but when it comes on song, you can live on it for a couple of months.
Seasonal eating at its very best.

[Topcat36]

PSB takes up too much space and i dont have much, cut down on the Raddish and lettuce next year, only so much i can eat at any one time.

[Pumpkin Becki]

Wow, I disagree with that! It does stay there for a long time, but when it comes on song, you can live on it for a couple of months.
Seasonal eating at its very best.

I just wish my PSB was doing something - out of so many seeds sewn and germinated, I've got about two plants left and they are only two inches tall - they aren't going to feed me through the 'hungry gap' are they!?

[womble]

I just wish my PSB was doing something - out of so many seeds sewn and germinated, I've got about two plants left and they are only two inches tall - they aren't going to feed me through the 'hungry gap' are they!?

Not unless it's a very small gap, or you are Jimmy Kranky.

[maytreefrannie]

tumbling tom tomatoes, grew well but tough skinned and not much taste,

I won't be growing them either - tough skins as you say, although I found the few that ripened tasted OK - mostly mine didn't ripen even though I waited for ages, eventually I used them green, made fried green tomatoes, didn't turn out very well.

It's back to my beloved Gardener's Delight next year.

[Bren In Pots]

Since I've now got a greenhouse I wont be growing any more out door tomatoes.

[Luci]

I won't be growing garlic any more.
This was my 3rd year of trying to grow it - it obviously doesn't like me. They put up their shoots then wither and rot.

[RobintheBobin]

I won't be growing garlic any more.
This was my 3rd year of trying to grow it - it obviously doesn't like me. They put up their shoots then wither and rot.

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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