What's Your Favourite Thing To Grow?

[bluemoon]

Pumpkins, if I'm forced to choose a veg. Don't know why, but they're such fun. My favourite thing of all though is Blueberries. Dazzling autumn foliage, pretty stems in winter, beautifully scented blossom in spring, I'd grow them even if they didn't produce berries in summer (and I didn't have a brilliant way of preserving them with copious quantities of alcohol)

[mr worm]

broad beans never fail me and i love them

[Skotch]

Beetroots - I love them and find them exceptionally easy to grow (especially Boltardy)

Runner Beans - for the sheer value for money you get from the crop (and flavour)

Parsnips - I love to see whats under all the folliage - again, never ceases to surprise

Skotch

[gojiberry]

Overall I enjoy growing fruit and veg but no single veg has enough variety in growth to hold my attention over a longer period of time. So if I had to pick a single item it would have to be fuchsias as they are easy to grow and yet can be grown in such a variety of ways. And if you really wanted to you can eat the berries (never tried them myself).

Ian

[HeyWayne]

Bean.

It's that simple.

[Pumpkin Becki]

Bean.

It's that simple.

Oh yes? And how is Bean Mk2 coming along??

[hamsterqueen]

tomatoes, they grow brilliantly here , just outside straight in the ground.

climbing beans, you can practically see them growing.

[hawthorns]

1st early potatoes

[oldie]

Never able to keep up with the demand for carrots and onions. I prefer Runner to French beans and am really enjoying trying different types.

[Dottie]

Love all my fruits - but blackberries for sheer quantity and lasting over a long period.

Veg - has to be beetroots.

[Redpepper]

climbing beans, raspberries, 1st earlies, peas and tomatoes

[Crosbie]

Cucumbers! - attractive, long and tasty; sometimes bitter

[gardendancer]

One way I could reply is my favourite is whatever is popping through the ground, or ready to be harvested..
...but I think I like growing dwarf beans - the way they germinate so fast and burst through the ground, and how they seem to hurry as fast as they can to produce a harvest, the same reason I like to grow radishes, and then they taste so great

[King Carrot]

Tomatoes - nothing else comes close, just wish we had more sun these last three years as they taste so much better with more sunshine in summer - always next year!

[susieq100]

Beans - any kind, peas - they rarely make it to the coooker - we just eat them raw and early potatoes for exactly the same reasons as cazsudz; it is exactly like digging for buried treasure and takes me back to my childhood lifting potatoes in the garden with my Dad.