What is on your 'must grow' list please?

[Jamesy_uk]

Added Crown Prince, Uchi Kiri Squash and Cosse Violette climbing beans to the list.

You know I have to say this as I been boring the pants off anyone that will listen if your not keen on runner beans or fancy an alternative with similar growing habits then its climbing french beans and I can safely say I probably won't grow Runner beans again and my parents are the same.

[Currysniffa]

If I could only grow 6 things it would have to be French Beans, Garden Peas, Second Early Potatoes, Tomatoes, Broccoli and Carrots.

[unclefudgly]

I want to try a few new things this year, now I have found my feet so to speak.

Need to find good varieties of Pak Choi, Choy Sum, Kai Lan so will be planting a few different types of each.

also..
climbing french beans - cherokee trail of tears
courgette - lebanese and cocozelle
squash - uchi kiri, crown prince, and some seed I got from Morocco last year french heirloom variety, very ugly!!
cucumbers- japanese sushi types
toms - Supersweet 'Gardeners Delight, golden sunrise (my fave all time tomato!)
Pea - Champion of England (6ft tall) & yellow mange tout
onion - rijnsburger, japanese bunching and zebrune
chard - lots and lots... love the stuff!
Thai Basil - as much as possible, always running out at home!
Oriental greens - Komatsuna, pak choi, choy sum, tsoi tsim, tatsoi, mizuna, kai lan

[Helgalush]

Swiss chard
Climbing french beans
Beetroot
Radishes
Carrots
Tomatoes
Herbs of various sorts for us and our rabbits
Spring onions
Leeks
Strawberries
Turnips

All of these I can grow with relative ease at home in large containers. I should think my list would be different if and when I have an allotment space to grow in.

[plymouthred]

Last year, my first attempt, I grew spuds in containers, runner beans and toms outside. I had a good crop of runner beans, loads of toms but not many red ones LOL and okayish crop of spuds!

Greenhouse on order so looking at trying:

Toms
Cucs
Peppers
Chillies

Outdoors a new raise bed being built so in that onions, carrots and leeks.

[Piggle]

A decent cabbage as my previous attempts are pitiful.

I want one that is the size of the one Alan T has on the front of one of his books - it's head sized! Mine are more like cricket balls !

No kohl rabi as no-one liked them ( not even the slugs) even though they grew very easily
More rhubarb for crumbles
More shallots even though peeling them is a faff
Gave up on sweetcorn as the badgers eat it all.

[stella]

I will be trying all the usual things but my 'special' for this year is soya beans. I love them when they come with sushi and seem expensive to buy so going to give them a go.

[Gearoid]

Patty Pan summer squash. I forgot to sow seeds last year and ended up having to buy them from the local health food shop. I'm determined to get them in this year, lots of 'em!

[Rabidbun]

Tomatoes (Red Alert, Sungold/Sungella)
Tomatillos
Chard
Garlic
Parsley
Basil
Raspberries
Strawberries
French beans (Rattlesnake, Cosse Violette or Blauhilde)

I will be trying a tonne of different bean types this year, some new pea types and tomato types too.

[VirginVegGrower]

Along with the myriad of other items I wish to grow, could I please add white strawberry - got one at Wilkos.

[feefeelalabelle]

this year i will be trying
carrots
potatoes
brocolli
beans
garlic onions
im sure there will be lots more to add

can i start beans off now ?

[hippychick253]

Raspberries,summer and/or autumn varieties.... thems gert lush on a bowl of cereal in the mornings, as I potter around my veg beds contemplating the world, in the morning sun :-))

[HeyWayne]

Sweetcorn
Beetroot
Strawberries
Courgettes
Potatoes (any)
French beans
Squash (butternut +1)
Sweetcorn
Chillies
Carrots
Parsn....(that was close)
Celeriac
Peas (pod & podded)


I think that's it...

[weekendwellies]

grow what you like to eat, plus a couple of things you havent tried before, plus some things that the insects like, plus a few things that you like to look at.

[vegnut]

Going to grow the new runner bean firestorm, some chinese broccoli kailaan, the new kohl rabi kossak (yum) plus all the obvious ones i grow every year.
I always try to find something different to grow each year, diversity is the name of the game.