What Do You Wish You Could Grow?

[Scarlet]

Plain old garlic for me I've had white onion rot in two places now over the past two years. I'm really running out of areas where I can try again.

[Deano's "Diggin It"]

Quick post! Only just realised I'm on 666!!!!!!!!....................

[Deano's "Diggin It"]

...........Phew!...........

[Penellype]

Plain old garlic for me I've had white onion rot in two places now over the past two years. I'm really running out of areas where I can try again.

Have you tried growing garlic in a container with fresh compost?

[bramble]

Celery for me. When i was a child my dad always grew massive celery, big white heads which we 2 girls helped to water in the fine weather. He would tie the leaves up with twine and earth them up to make them tall and white. I could never get mine to grow like that. It was a long time ago so perhaps that particular variety is no longer available.
He would also send some to the vegetable market.
Happy days they were.

[Small pumpkin]

I'm another one that can't grow cauliflower very well. Don't mind to much as I don't eat the disgusting stuff! But I don't like to fail at my veggie growing

[Yasminh14]

I've decided it must be okra. We've had 2 pretty hot summers in a row here in Brittany and I've tried 2 different varieties, one of which is supposedly suited to cooler climates. Last year they failed to get any taller than about 3 inches. This year I left them in, hoping they might eventually get going. I've read that they can grow to 6 feet and are really prolific, but this year they still only got to about 8 inches. I probably got about 8 fruits from 4 plants, and half of those were too stringy to eat! Might have to give up on this one.

[Lumpy]

Sorry to snigger Deano but thats what you get for growing beautiful celery. Ha Ha my hex worked I see!

[Deano's "Diggin It"]

I won't put ya some in ya "Cyber Locker" then!

[noviceveggrower]

I would like to be able to grow parsnips. But my parsnips never seem to do anything. Don't seem to germinate or anything.Quite depressing really.
I managed to grow leeks last year by starting them off in seed trays. First time ever

[WPG]

Butternut squash. I've tried and failed for the past 3 years. Maybe it's the climate here or maybe I'm making some basic error, but every year they just shrivel up and die.

[Elfeda]

corriander. I got so many germinated and grown to few inches to get picked enough.. but i only wanted them so bushy and could not cope with watering or transplanting stuff..so lost them with out harvests..hope I do them better next year. I want a 2 sq.m corriander patch

[hamamelis]

I think I'll have to second the butternut squash; my brassicas never really do that well, but I don't really mind much, but I've never even had a female flower on a butternut, and I love butternut squash.

Other squash I can grow (not a great crop- my ground's too poor for that), but not them.

[Potstubsdustbins]

Some seasons one thing fails (this year it was cauli, all bolted) another season it will be something else (beetroot comes to mind).

But having had a lot of season's to try I have managed to grow what I want at some time, just not that particular season when I want to grow it....................if you see what I mean.

[mothhawk]

It's carrots for me, same as Deano. Soil's too heavy, even with all the H/M compost it gets. Reckon I'll try "trenching" them like someone else did this year and got lovely carrots. Who was it now? I can't remember. Yes I'm that old...