Next year I WILL....

[bario1]

Be even more brutal about composting spare plants - this year I've been better than last year, but my plot is still littered with bonsai versions of stuff in pots that I haven't had the heart to throw away.

[sparrow100]

Try to grow fewer than 14 different kinds of winter squash (24 plants!)
Plant up the greenhouse more strategically
Have a go at grafting trees and growing currants into standards
Grow onions from seed again, they are brilliant
Successfully grow both celeriac and swede
Be so chilled at having most of the plot dug over and ready that I won't care about minor disasters

[kris1960]

Eat my first cutting of asparagus (as long as the mole doesn't dig them up).

Me too, I hope!

[Coopers]

- Hopefully grow a courgette or pumpkin. Second year off complete failure.
- grow more flowers
- grow sweet corn
- try to continue however I managed to wing it this year

[ancee]

Find stuff to put in the greenhouse and not put stuff in that's unsuitable. Build a fruit cage. Make the pond bigger. Buy more and more and more plants!

[Sharpy]

I hear you Kirk.

150 sets planted last autumn=4 small freezer bags of chopped onions, about 20 average size.

And stop thinking summers around the corner in.........February

[Gillykat]

Manage to hold back the weeds.....

Tell me about it!!!! On 12th June my plot was looking nicely 'under control' and then I had three weeks of chaos...2 deaths in family, funerals to organise, staff off work at same time so working full time....and apart from my nightly trot up to water poly tunnel stuff I just didn't have enough hours in the day to catch up Then the hot weather arrived with just enough rain to set ALL the weeds rampaging around the plot at warp speed!!!! Got back into a normal routine this Monday, 6th July, and it was like hacking my way through a jungle!!! Dratted hawkweed is the main culprit!!! I've spent the past five days, two hours at a time, clearing the plot and FINALLY have it back under control.

Next year there won't be a single weed allowed to even show it's face before I dig or pull it out!

[kris1960]

Leave my potatos until they are ready.
Not plant packets and packets of seeds outside in February(18 packets- 3 carrots,2 godetia,2 nastursiums,3 russian kale.Only successes with little gem and mispoona).
Record every seed that I plant here so that I have a record- I have done with most since I joined but the ones I have needed to know about were, sod's law, on busy days when I didn't make it to computer.

[Lumpy]

I just spotted an amazing new invention - plant labels.

Must really try using them next year as I'm getting too old for the 'wonder what that is' game (especially when it turns out its a dandelion)

[muddled]

Try to grow fewer than 14 different kinds of winter squash (24 plants!)
Plant up the greenhouse more strategically
Have a go at grafting trees and growing currants into standards
Grow onions from seed again, they are brilliant
Successfully grow both celeriac and swede
Be so chilled at having most of the plot dug over and ready that I won't care about minor disasters

All but the first one (need to sow more next year....slugs have had a field day) but other than that exactly the same

[pandasyard]

I will hopefully have a vague knowledge of what I can plant and also have my veg plot sorted in my garden.

[Gillykat]

Record every seed that I plant here so that I have a record- I have done with most since I joined but the ones I have needed to know about were, sod's law, on busy days when I didn't make it to computer.

I meant to write down EVERY seed, veggies and flowers, variety I planted so I wouldn't get confused and, for next year, would have an idea of germination times so I wouldn't sow stuff too soon/too late. Even got a nice page-a-day diary so loads of space to do it in....and I haven't written down a darned thing!!!

[Bal]

As others have said plant less seeds and not so early have about 25 petunia plants that were sown in March and are still only 4 cms tall

[More basil]

Tell myself that I will pinch out tomato sideshoots and have beautifully managed tomato plants. Then, undoubtedly, I will turn my back 5 minutes, come back and find a jungle. As always.

[kris1960]

Plant my giant sunflowers outside under something- they were stuck in a cold greenhouse until they were 2' tall because it was too cold to put them out. They look pretty but are not tall and don't look like they are going to get much bigger.