What will you do different next year?

[alldigging]

Grow less potatoes. Prepare asparagus bed.

[Glutton4...]

I may even sow some seeds...

[binley100]

pmsl ^^^^^^^ how about some parsnips ?

[horticultural_hobbit]

Try and use my brain. Use raised beds, newspaper mulch, use green manures. Cultivate those things that I want. Ignore naysayers. Make the most of the a batch patch.

[Feral007]

Ooooh just in time for me!

Sow more of most things, but like vc succession sowing. Tis freezing here so a good time to plan for late frosts.

I want to do the same again with the no dig. However I am thinking of doing some of those 'plant into' compost heaps in the ground. If I can work out how to keep the kelpie out of it.

I want to plant more leeks and potatoes. I want to plant garlic and red onions this time. I want to make more smaller garden beds around the house, less mowing and more eating.
I'm desperate to find enough money to get many more fruit trees in before spring. We're a family of fruit bats here so more is good.
Parsnips and celery. Carrots and pak choi - huge amounts of them. Going to try beans and peas. And I'm going to try for sweet corn to shade the other plants from the fierce afternoon sun.
I want some asparagus this time. And more than a couple of stalks of rhubarb.
Need to get out there and get the seeds out of that massive courgette (zuch) in the kitchen. Nearly time to get excited here.

[redser]

I wont bother with dwarf french beans but go for climbers only. Dwarfs take up too much planting space on the ground. Sowed Cobra mid-late June and they are huge and pods are growing fast and plentiful. Great to use the vertical space in the tunnel. One section is starting to look like a spiders web with all the strings
Plant spring sets for onions instead of relying on over-wintered only as they will store better.

[CaroltheCarrot]

I wont cover the strawberry patch with red netting

O and I will finally accept that melons just dont like it up here so I wont bother my shirt tail with them

[lottie dolly]

start the early things of at home,the lottie grow barn worked well enough,but a pain keeping an eye out,at home is easier,was given a lot of bublewrap,so will find out how to line at least 1greenhouse,
name things indvidual when pricking out,
before giving any spare plants away,make SURE you have not included what you meant to have kept,in your hurry to tidy up a bit doh,
use slug prevention whilst the horse is young,NOT after it's bolted

I wonder how many of us will remember to do these things,as it will also depend on the weather again,oh and another 1 for more parsnips when only half decide to geminate,
the most important thing will be to chill a bit more,not panic sow,and no special cake making

[zazen999]

Oh, and I'm going to make more netting in advance, so that it's ready to go when I am.

[Farmer_Gyles]

i'm going to start peas, beans, sweetcorn, cucumbers, courgettes etc in the house where the mice can't get to the seeds ....
i'm going to overwinter my sweet peppers, chillies etc as they're still little more than seedlings ....
i'm not going to let the missus overrun the greenhouse with so many tomato seedlings ....
i'm going to be better organised with sowings of everything ....
i'll grow more maincrop spuds instead of charlottes .... as much as we love charlottes, we have a shoebox full and 11 more sacks to empty ....
i will set up proper supports for the raspberries and loganberries ....
i won't rely on summer crops, so i'm growing as much as i can through this winter ....

i didn't do much last year due to work, had a lot of catching up and tidying up to do this year, so things should be much better next year .... plus of course, this year's weather has been awful ....

[Graham K]

Cover everything with nets, the wildlife decimated all my early planting.

Cover everything with plastic, the rain ruined what was left after the wildlife finished and has made planting impossible, and guess what, it's chucking it down again as I'm writing this.

[veggiechicken]

So as to maximise the returns from a small bit of good ground I'm going to concentrate on veg that meet one or more of the following criteria:
quick-maturing
cut and come again
dual-purpose
perennial veg .
& I'll make more use of the greenhouse.

[Sarico]

i will try everything again.. been the first year and a bad year i can't give up some veg because i don't know if i did something wrong or the weather... but i will not grow carrots next year considered i grow in pots and feww carrots took a lot of time to grow when i could sow something else..

[CaroltheCarrot]

O and I will definitely free up some more space for inside peas, big fat pods,sweet juicy peas, and because they will be at home there might be a better chance of them making it into the kitchen,might just might!

[kathyd]

Remember to weed around my fruit bushes so I can find them in the summer...
Grow climbing peas and beans instead of dwarfies
Sort out my compost bins which are beginning to take over the garden
Buy more plant labels! I STILL have 'mystery beds' where I stick things I can't recognise
Try to fix up somewhere warm and light to move my peppers and toms to once they leave the propogate