What do you all fancy growing in 2011? Tried and tested staple crops? Or trying new crops or varieties? Or maybe a bit of both?
2011 will only be my second growing year, so I will be finding out if my bumper 2010 crops were beginners luck or not
I have been giving some thought to what I would like to grow next year, given my very limited growing space (pots in my back garden!). There are loads of things that I think "yeah, I'd like to grow that", but due to the lack of space I am really having to think "will I really EAT it?"
So, my plan is currently looking like this:- peas (not grown before), carrots (last years were a very tasty success & are a staple in our house), spinach (roaring success & kept me, the only spinach eater, with plenty of leaves all through the season), lettuce (same as spinach), radishes (may or may not grow them. May just grow them to use up the seed), spring onions (v.successful this year), strawberries (not grown before. Will try & find 2 varieties so can enjoy strawbs from May - Aug), cranberries (have just discovered I LOVE cranberry sauce! Would love to make my Christmas Day cranberry sauce from my own berries), mushrooms (absolute 'no-show' disaster this year, but I figure I will put in a pot & place in the garden where mush's grow naturally. This crop was an experimental crop this year, and have the other half packet of spawn stuff left - if the date is ok), chillies (v.successful this year, but bought the only variety available at a High Street garden centre. May CHOOSE & order my variety/ies next year from a catalogue), parsnips (not grown before. Fancy having a go so we can enjoy honey-roasted parsnips with our Christmas dinner next year), leeks (they are growing well at the moment, not tasted them yet. If they are delicious then I will probably grow them next year too).
All of the above is subject to change. A GYO-ers perogative I guess.
2011 will only be my second growing year, so I will be finding out if my bumper 2010 crops were beginners luck or not
I have been giving some thought to what I would like to grow next year, given my very limited growing space (pots in my back garden!). There are loads of things that I think "yeah, I'd like to grow that", but due to the lack of space I am really having to think "will I really EAT it?"
So, my plan is currently looking like this:- peas (not grown before), carrots (last years were a very tasty success & are a staple in our house), spinach (roaring success & kept me, the only spinach eater, with plenty of leaves all through the season), lettuce (same as spinach), radishes (may or may not grow them. May just grow them to use up the seed), spring onions (v.successful this year), strawberries (not grown before. Will try & find 2 varieties so can enjoy strawbs from May - Aug), cranberries (have just discovered I LOVE cranberry sauce! Would love to make my Christmas Day cranberry sauce from my own berries), mushrooms (absolute 'no-show' disaster this year, but I figure I will put in a pot & place in the garden where mush's grow naturally. This crop was an experimental crop this year, and have the other half packet of spawn stuff left - if the date is ok), chillies (v.successful this year, but bought the only variety available at a High Street garden centre. May CHOOSE & order my variety/ies next year from a catalogue), parsnips (not grown before. Fancy having a go so we can enjoy honey-roasted parsnips with our Christmas dinner next year), leeks (they are growing well at the moment, not tasted them yet. If they are delicious then I will probably grow them next year too).
All of the above is subject to change. A GYO-ers perogative I guess.
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