What Do You Wish You Could Grow?

[Bigmallly]

Most folk have a bogie plant that for the life of them they can't grow. If you had to choose just one crop that you wish you could grow, what would it be?

Mine has to be the beloved Mushroom. I've tried & better tried with kits & Spawn but can I grow it?.................Not a chance...........

[Lumpy]

Nice thread BM for me it would be celery. I suffered a complete envy breakdown when I saw Deano's.

[jackarmy]

At this precise moment Scotch Bonnet chillis.
The seeds i ordered online turned out to be ringers ( normal bell peppers) , so sad after all the loving care ive given them .

Lumpy, didnt i read somewhere that the secret with celery is to keep it really wet ?, the wife wants me to try it when i get some room .

[PyreneesPlot]

Calabrese - love green 'trees' and as we have a no buy veg policy I do miss it
And on a very personal note, Blenheim Orange Apples - there was an ancient tree in the garden my parents moved to when I was 3 (my mum is still there) which gave fantatstic fruit that could be eaten fresh picked or would store right through the winter for cooking. And somewhere to climb up, fall out of and swing from. I've talked to lots of apple tree people and they all agree it i just too hot for them here.

[rhonsal]

Citrus - I use a lot if lemons and limes so it would be lovely to pick it off the tree as I need them!

I do have a variety of citrus plants - some go outside over the (so called) summer and produce lots of flowers and set fruit but they never get that big before falling off!

[Martin H]

Cauliflowers. I don't understand how they can be so cheap in the supermarket yet so hard to grow well on the allotment.

[cariann88]

A money tree - So I can have lots of money

Herbs, I seem to grow them but then they start to die! And I've no Idea why.

[sparrow100]

Swedes and celeriac for me. Though my swede curse may have been lifted this year. *fingers crossed*

[Nicos]

Tomatoes!

They always seem to get blight here
( well not this year- but that's cos we didn't grow any!)

Maybe if I had a greenhouse/polytunnel/geodome things would be different

[bario1]

Aubergines - I've tried in the greenhouse, polytunnel and outside, they always just keel over when they get to the flowering stage.

[Penellype]

Hmm, one thing...

The thing I've tried most often, failed with most often and never, ever managed to grow into an edible condition of any sort is cauliflower. I visited my friend yesterday just as she was eating cauliflower cheese, and I thought "I wish I could grow the damn things".

There's lots of things I can't grow simply because I haven't got the space - raspberries (summer), asparagus, all sorts of fruit trees... but I think if I'm only allowed 1 thing, it has to be the cauli.

[Guest]

Another one for cauli and just for a one off so I knew I could grow it, would be sweet potato

[Deano's "Diggin It"]

Carrots!

I don't know if have upset one in a passed life!

But seems the Great Goddess of carrots "Beta Carotine" as condemned me to a life of no home grown carrots!

Seven rows of strategically sown seeds always ends up in a mish-mash!



If I'm lucky I'll end up with three or four decent carrots out of one full sowing!

It's the same every year!

[Deano's "Diggin It"]

A money tree - So I can have lots of money

Carrianne! I grew one of them once! And wouldn't ya know! It bolted before it set fruit!

[meteor]

I would love to grow root ginger, I have tried several times but I've failed miserably. I have Japanese hardy ginger (Zingiber mioga) but it is just not the same as the true ginger.