What won't you bother with again?

[sparrow100]

physalis.....only twice in a decade have they produced a crop.
Then again, when they do ripen they are outstandingly good! And they are so expensive in the shops, and they are my daughter's most very favouritest favourite fruit in the world....

They do ripen off the plant. My 3 plants are hanging upside down from my shed roof and the few that are ripe each time make for a tasty snack when I visit.

[muddled]

There. See? everything is always worth another go

[Small pumpkin]

Never again..... Tomatillo. Temperamental triffids !
Cucamelons. Nobody likes eating them, but I did enjoy growing them.

[Lisasbolt]

Oh i have remembered

Current tomatoes, they took over the whole area, hard to stake as they broke. And such a pain when picking 100's takes all day. When i served in salad everyone left them as they rolled off the fork. But did taste good, especially when turned into a yellow tom pasta sauce. Ok maybe 2 plants

Again a few seeds for the VSP.

[roitelet]

Leeks, the last three years the attack from leek moth has been so bad that I won't bother next year. Three years ago I used to grow whoppers.

[sparrow100]

I have about 15 seeds left if you fancy trying them?

Let me know your addy and I'll pop them in the post

Thanks, that's really kind, but they *might* be coming from another seed circle.
(incoming heresy: other forums are available...dons tin hat and runs)

[hellybore]

I think I'm giving up on Jerusalem artichokes, I just don't like them. Heard somewhere that you have to try a new taste 10 times before you decide if you like it or not, so I have persevered, but they still taste foul. I am trying to grow more perennial crops so I really wanted to like them! Alas, it is not to be. And that's not even taking the windy effects into account! Think I will try to dig them out (apparently easier said than done) and use the bed for something I like!

[Greenleaves]

Radish, easy to grow my foot

[Spunky]

Winston potatoes......slugged to death when other spuds were untouched.
Then again, what if the others were untouched because of the winstons? should I grow them as a sacrificial crop?

Atlantic giant pumpkin.....too big to justify cutting into just for me and no-one else here likes punikins.
Then again, they are good fun, and they make the plot look good when other crops are past their prime, and the other plotters ooohed and aaaahed and thought I was a very clever gardener

physalis.....only twice in a decade have they produced a crop.
Then again, when they do ripen they are outstandingly good! And they are so expensive in the shops, and they are my daughter's most very favouritest favourite fruit in the world....

So nothing is the answer.
Nothing is going to be left out because I never learn
I am plagued by gardeners optimism disease every spring, convinced that this will be my year and everything will grow and ripen and be delicious

You can overwinter physalis muddled the same way as chillies you get loads the following year

[Chippy Minton]

Celeriac, we don't like them, number 1 daughter asked to grow one about 3 years ago, still haven't managed although there is one currently looking OK. Fully protected from badgers (last year's eaten by badgers), razor wire, minefield, gun turrets that kind of thing. Hopefully we'll get to eat it, all go *yuck* and then we can stop growing the stupid temperamental slow growth revolting things

Feel better now, ta.

[Zelenina]

Malinowy Retro tomatoes.

Not that they are a totally bad variety. They were very good in some ways. They diidn't match their description very closely, but that wouldn't necessarily be bad either. But they were totally lacking the main thing I want in a tomato.

I knew they were Polish by the spelling, although I saw them on a Czech seed company's website. It would be spelled malinovy in Czech, and it means raspberry coloured i.e. pink. The picture showed smooth round pink fruit, maybe cherry or salad sized, it was hard to tell. The description also said tall vigorous plants and round pink fruit with a specially good taste.

Czech seed descriptions usually say nothing about the flavour, so I though they must be really special tasting. And I know Poland used to be famous for very tasty pink tomatoes. So I went across the Czech border to find them because they weren't in our local seed shop, and I bought two packets.

Tall and vigorous it said, so I planted them between Black Cherry and Chadwick Cherry. They grew ok, but compared with both of those they were weaklings. They produced plenty of tomatoes, which grew to salad size, but heart shaped with a nipple, not round. They did ripen to a beautiful pink colour with no green shoulders, so that bit was right. All eight plants were the same so it wasn't due to a stray seed or a random cross.

I often like the acidity of tomatoes slightly unripe, but these ones after just turning pink had the taste and texture of the worst kind of supermarket tomatoes. No taste or juiciness at all really. They did get juicier and sweeter after they had ripened to a deeper pink, but still no acidity and no real tomato flavour. Much too mild for me and very disappointing.

And then the blight came and they went down with it just as quickly as their neighbours. No special resistance there to make them worth growing.

So if anyone wants a productive, medium vigorous, very pretty looking tomato for people who don't really like the taste of tomatoes, I have the perfect seeds for you.

[Penellype]

There are 2 reasons why I reject something:
1. I don't like it/its vastly inferior to another variety
2. It won't grow.

Under heading 1:
Mangetout Shiraz - vile, powdery, tasteless stuff that reduced my crops of nice peas by taking up space - never again
Tomato Chocolate Cherry - rampant plants which took a long time to produce any flowers and fruit. Fruit disappointingly watery and tasted of nothing much - went soft and started to go mouldy when still part green. Only plus side was the quantity once it finally got going.
Potato Pentland Javelin - grown specifically as a first early, but was outperformed by Charlotte (2nd early) which was earlier, higher yielding, and in a different parish taste-wise.

Under heading 2:
Cauliflower - 3 separate attempts resulted in plants which got to the 4 leaf stage then curled up and died. I tried propagator, grow light garden, greenhouse and outside under veggiemesh with and without a water tray. I have one surviving plant which is at the 6 leaf stage, planted next to healthily growing spring cabbages. Waste of time and more importantly, space. A pity, as I adore cauliflower.
Spring Onion White Lisbon. I've tried these for years and never got anything bigger than grass. Chives are huge in comparison. Furio (red) performed marginally better in much worse conditions, Ramrod took off and produced the biggest spring onions I have ever seen, so its not what I am doing that's the problem.
Onion Red Baron - bulbs were only about twice the size of the sets I planted and got neck rot as well. Sturon, planted next to these, produced large, clean and healthy bulbs.

[Two_Sheds]

Onions, too much White Rot on the plot.

You could try treating it with caliente mustard ~ it works

[Two_Sheds]

Leeks, the last three years the attack from leek moth has been so bad

same here, I now grow them under netting.

a few will still get the maggot in the stem, so I cut those leeks off at soil level, and they regrow without the maggot

[Alicante]

Courgettes. Over the years I have grown round ones, stripy ones, ridged ones, green ones and yellow ones often at the same time. I have given most of the crop away as there is really only so many courgettes one family wants to eat. I have made cakes with them and jam. The cakes are soggy and frankly a waste of the other ingredients. Why make a courgette cake when a carrot cake is soooo much nicer?
But they are easy to grow and fill up gaps nicely. And I have just bought some new courgette seeds for next year!
Custard pie squashs though, never again.