What's New ?

[Creemteez]

Trying to grow my own Cumin for the first time this year. Anyone else trying something for the first time?

[Likac66]

Growing in the ground! I've grown purely in containers before but now I've got an allotment it's (mostly) going in the ground!

New crops for me this year though include turnips and cauliflowers. I've got lots of new varieties of different seeds like round courgettes and cucumbers for the first time.

[Vixen218]

Just like Likac66 I have always planted in containers and moved into a new house last year with massive garden and a garden that has no rubble under it... so am majorly planting now...

my current 'new' list includes,
callaloo
wintergreen
inca berries
goji berries
cucamelons
lemon cucumbers
purple haze carrots
sweet sunshine peppers (these look like chilli pepperes but are sweet)
normal bell peppers
Salsify
broad beans
courgette

and then the usual
potatoes
onion sets
beetroot
peas but in a larger quantity...

am really hoping for a good harvest this year and if it works then the hubby might let me take over more of the garden (not that he ever ventures out there lol)

[Barking Postlethwaite]

I've got some cumin seeds for the first time too. We get through quite a lot of the stuff so it would be wonderful to get a reasonable supply but I'm not very optimistic. I'll be interested to see what happens.

[veggiechicken]

Where to start?
Elephant garlic
Thai garlic
Potato onions
Yacon
Lots of different kales

Can't remember what else - haven't really decided but those ^^^ apart from kale are growing now.

[kathycam]

Yeah I'm like VC and growing all sorts of new things. It's only my second growing season on my allotment. (before that limited balcony and community garden growing)

So some of the new things are:
Yacon
Mashua
Oca
Okra
Cucamelons
Dahalias (for yams)
Spinach strawberries
Walking stick kale
New zealand tree spinach
Tomtillas
Inca berries

And more- I'd have to go through my seeds.

[KittyColdNose]

What's a potato onion VC?

*nips off to goggle*

I'm back. Liking the look of them. We have some Egyptian walking onions in.

[MarkHackwell]

What is a spinach strawberry? Sounds a bit bad :P

[kathycam]

I like the idea of it being 2 crops on one plant. Strawberry Spinach/Sticks appx 100 seeds | eBay

[sally fran]

Nothing very exotic but I've not been doing this very long.

I was very excited by how successful my BNS were last year so this year I'm adding Uchiki Kuri, Golden Hubbard and Winter Festival squashes.

Also I'm doing aubergines for the first time.

[Paulieb]

Where to start?
Elephant garlic
Thai garlic
Potato onions
Yacon
Lots of different kales

Can't remember what else - haven't really decided but those ^^^ apart from kale are growing now.

Is it too late to start potato onions (if I can get hold of seeds or sets?!?). Or are they just along the lines of onions; best to start early but could still get a crop?

[veggiechicken]

Zaz may know Its my first time and I have 2, both sprouting. I'm sure it would be OK to start them now.

[Paulieb]

Zaz may know Its my first time and I have 2, both sprouting. I'm sure it would be OK to start them now.

Cool, just had a quick read about them and will probably try to have a go at some point, but perhaps next year as I've already run out of allotted space.

Where did you get yours from?

[veggiechicken]

From Ebay, together with some other "Exotics" as sold by a Grape whose name begins with Z.

[JoeDaStudd]

We I only really started growing veg last year so its all been fairly new. I'd helped with tomatoes, cucumbers, peas, potatoes and onions (the last 3 many years ago) before and grown radishes and lettuce, but never really did much of it.

Last year it was calabrese, kai lan, tatsio, purple spring onions, kohl rabi, blood red chard, red russian kale, spinach, pea shoots and sprouting seeds.
On top all of the above apart from calabrese (it failed terribly) this year I'll be trying the following:
Munchen Bier radish (rats tail ie for the pods not roots)
Blood red spring onions
Endive
Romanesco Cauliflower
Jalapeno
Asparagus pea
Broad beans - Sutton Dwarf
O and some potatoes in flower buckets

Once I started buying seeds and growing varieties I'd never eaten or grown I can't seem to stop.
I'm slowly taking over the garden and have a silly amount of seeds.

Good job I got lucky with a mega bundle (28!!) of flower buckets for 99p at Morrisons when I was on holiday in Devon.