What's Your Favourite Thing To Grow?

[Bigmallly]

I can't believe nobody has mention the lonely leek.....Mrs BM makes a mean potato & leak soup.....I love growing carrot & parsnip as you never know their size until you lift them.

[sarraceniac]

I enjoy growing all veggies but my special delight is home grown fruit. Keep the nasties off with nets not chemicals and nothing from the supermarket tastes like a raspberry or a strawberry straight off the cane or plant. But my OH's greatest pleasure is a Cox's Orange in early November which tastes like an apple should. Do you remember those French Golden 'Delicious' that the supermarkets flooded the country with a few years ago? Golden 'Orrible more like it.

[basketcase]

(and I didn't have a brilliant way of preserving them with copious quantities of alcohol)

You can't leave us hanging like that!!

[HotStuff]

I'm with you Llamas, it has to be Chillies at #1. Started growing them just to eat, but now fascinated how beautiful some of the plants are. #2 would have to be Garlic, as I use so much of it in my cooking.

[snakeshack]

number one has to be fresh tomatos ,straight from the bush,closely followed by butternut squash,I love the vigourous growth and the way the skins ripen to that buff colour.Eating them in winter is like opening a little piggy-bank of allotment sunshine in the dark days of winter.
I am also developing an unhealthy obsession for growing larger and larger onions.

[womble]

What's Your Favorite Thing To Grow?

Am I allowed to be rude?

[sweetiepea]

Its hard to choose one, so I'll go for two! Carrots and pumpkins. I have very little trouble growing carrots, although the odd one does split, and I do get some interesting shapes! I just love the smell of them when they come up out of the earth - Heaven! Although this was the first year I had no sucess with my own pumpkins (the weather took its toll), the pumpkins I set at DS school did reasonably well. I love them so much because they are rampant growers and the kids always amazed by them.

[Jeanied]

What's Your Favorite Thing To Grow?

Am I allowed to be rude?

Womble there is absoutely no answer to that one!

I've just gone through my seed box and the answer from me, judging on the number of of packets of seeds I have bought, is PEAS and CARROTS!
*hmm - methinks a spell on the seed swap is needed!

[Tam]

Apples (and all other fruit and vegetables grown) as you can't buy anything that tastes like your own. Most commercially grown food is pumped full of water and nitrogen to get the heaviest yield and the least taste.

[moola]

First earlies - it is just so satisfying seeing them take off and not having to wait toooooo long for the goodies....and they come at a time when we're always working really hard in the garden. A lovely reward.

[Brengirl]

[SIZE="3"]Apart from babies I can't say I have grown anything successfully. But, always willing to learn/SIZE]

[jacob marley]

The first taties of the spring and the first runner beans just spot on every thing that i grow as well but them first 2 are the best...jacob

[DeanRIowa]

Tomato & Cucumbers - I love Greek salads
Green/snap beans
Peppers(Hot & Sweet) - For stuffing and spice.

Dean

[COMPOST CORNER]

In the GH, Tomatoes (especially Sungold) & cucumbers.
Outside, I grew my first ever sweetcorn this year and was amazed by the difference in flavour from those sold in the shops.

[Snadger]

Carrots methinks, not only because of the taste of freshly pulled roots, but I seem to be the only one on our allotment site who can grow them well.

Its one veg I AM self sufficient in (never bought a carrot for three years!) and I never tire of eating them........though they have to be freshly pulled as I wouldn't thank you for shop bought carrots!!!! YuuuuK!