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  • What's Your Favourite Thing To Grow?

    As the title Say's "What your favorite thing to grow", What's been most productive, and would you grow it again??

    I love growing Runner Beans..they never fail to impress me with there delicate flowers and heavy crop's, i grow them every year & they've got to be my favorite.
    Last edited by ginger ninger; 19-11-2009, 11:09 PM.

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    Potatoes - not for the taste ( though they are delicious) or because they're expensive to buy ( they're not) but just because nothing beats putting your fork under a plant and searching for the hidden treasure beneath. Even dedicated non gardeners can be converted by this experience!

    Apart from that anything I've not grown before which is successful ( this year dwarf yellow french beans)

    Caz

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    • #3
      French Beans

      I have about 500 plants in the ground

      I don't like them fresh though, only as shelly beans or dried as kidney beans
      All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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      • #4
        Turnips and beans of all kinds. Spring onions have been great this year too. Tomatillos, even though it's my first go, have cropped like crazy, and both my apple trees are fit to burst

        Even my leeks look like they're going to be good this year.
        Urban Escape Blog

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        • #5
          I ask myself this all the time and I can never decide, if pushed I suppose its root crops, its the not knowing what you are going to see

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          • #6
            Mine is lettuce, I love picking just enough leaves for my sandwich.
            Location....East Midlands.

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            • #7
              I have loved it all. Lettuce for months, runner beans, loads of red toms, courgettes, peppers and chillis and aubergines. 6 sqashes nearly ready. And all of the fruit. Apples, raspberries, greengages, strawberries, currents, grapes.

              All time favourite is cherry tomatoes but I should do LESS next year.
              BumbleB

              I have raked the soil and planted the seeds
              Now I've joined the army that fights the weeds.

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              • #8
                Romanesco broccoli for its crazy, beautiful shape; Gardener's Delight for their superabundance; chillies, because I'm a recent convert and they just do what they're supposed to, grow, fruit and turn red - unbeatable!

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                • #9
                  Onions, Chilli and Peppers; and Beans for drying. Nothing quite like having a box of beans that you can run your hand through when they are all dried out.

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                  • #10
                    For sheer entertainment value, I love growing pumpkins (well I would wouldn't I!), squashes and courgettes. I really struggled with them last year, so this year I sewed twice as many seeds as insurance - the ones at home are a bit sporadic, but the ones up the lottie are rampant!!

                    I've been pleasantly surprised by my Dwarf French Beans 'Sprite' too, they took a while to get going but are cropping nicely now.

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                    • #11
                      Tomatoes (greenhouse ones). I love not having to pay for tins of organic tomatoes over the winter
                      And the smell of the greenhouse reminds me of me Grandad
                      Last edited by SarzWix; 26-08-2009, 11:16 AM.

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                      • #12
                        Its a tie between tomatoes, carrots and french beans!
                        I love them all....and a few of each are always munched before making it to the kitchen!
                        My mind works like lightning, One brilliant flash and it is gone!

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                        • #13
                          Radish.. all sort of ... .and now i m looking for rat-tailed radish for next year for its tasty pods..
                          lettuce are fun too , next year I m trying chilli and okra..
                          http://bageechah.blogspot.com/

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                          • #14
                            I have loved it all, but spuds has to be tops. Its like buried treasure :P
                            WPC F Hobbit, Shire police

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                            • #15
                              1. Tomatoes - just love home grown tomatoes of all different colours, sizes and shapes - just wish I had more freezer space for the resulting soups and sauces.

                              2. Peas - just can't beat freshly picked and podded gardens peas

                              3. Salad leaves - for same reason as the peas.

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