I Never Liked....

[Jay-ell]

For 40 years my mother has been saying that she didn't like strawberries, gooseberries or raspberries but now that I'm growing them on my plot she's decided she likes them.

Me, I never liked broccoli, cabbage or cooked carrots and rarely ate potatoes but since I've grown my own I've started to think that they're not bad (well except the cabbage as I never end up eating a whole head so I'm growing kale and loose headed cabbages)- chips or mash from purple potatoes are weird and wonderful - but still taste of spuds

Of course there's the things that just aren't available in the shops like skirret, scorzonera, yacon, tiger nuts, etc.

And then there's the things I never used to buy like pumpkins and courgettes - hardly ever bought them but now I'm weighing my courgette harvest in stones rather than pounds or kilos.

Anything you never used to eat before you grew it yourself?

[cariann88]

Before I started growing my own I never bought or tried kale, courgettes, runner beans and rhubarb.
The only thing I will not eat is Brussels sprouts. Can't stand the smell when being cooked. Even tho I have grown them on my plot.

[Cadalot]

My kids love my sprouts apparently they don't make them fart! Personally I had never tried marrow until someone gave me one in my first year and I have been growing and eating them since.

[Bren In Pots]

Mines Jerusalem artichokes they never looked appealing in the shop, now I love them in stews and gratins.

[Yasai]

Beetroot. The first time I tried it was three or four years ago when I started growing veg. Prior to that, I just didn't like the look of the packaged stuff they sell in the supermarket and the idea of roasting fresh beetroot simply never occurred to me until I was searching for an answer for the question of, "So what do I do with this?". ["This" being the solitary beetroot I managed to grow that first year] Now I love them.

[mothhawk]

...Anything you never used to eat before you grew it yourself?

Well, not really, but there's stuff I don't like, that I've tried growing myself and still don't like - French beans, coriander, good king henry, wonderberries. And I hate avocado, but can't grow it anyway
Does anybody, by the way?

edit and rocket, and lettuce - bleh

[Penellype]

When I was working full time my veg intake was mostly tinned tomatoes and the occasional carrot. Having spent all day outdoors mucking out horses I couldn't face gardening, and as horses are a 7 day a week job, I didn't have the time anyway.

Things that I grow now that I have never bought from the shops are beetroot (the smell when cooking still reminds me of the smell of the sugar factory near my school), florence fennel, pak choi, mizuna, namenia, mibuna, chinese celery, brokali, kale, sweet potatoes and pea shoots. I've never bought runner beans, but my Mum used to grow them so I never needed to buy them.

[Small pumpkin]

Think I was the same with pumpkins, squash & courgettes, I don't remember trying them before I started growing them.
The only thing I grow that I don't eat is rhubarb.
As a child there was a considerable longer list of veg I wouldn't eat than there is now.

[BeeHappyFlutterBy]

I'm really boring as i have only grown what i know I'll eat -so the usual Runner beans, Tomatoes, Lettuce, Broad beans, Pak choi, Onions, Leeks, Garlic Winter chard , Potatoes but i have to say, you guys n gals are are inspiring me posting the veggies you grow in this thread, and are pardon the pun "wetting me appetite so whos knows what next year will bring

Great thread by the way Jay-ell

[Snadger]

I used to grow white turnips (snowball) because I liked them. Not now though, as I have found that Mooli has exactly the same taste, is much more productive and stands for a lot longer without going to seed.
I don't think I have ever bought sweetcorn but I love the self grown stuff, eaten raw straight from the plant.

[burnie]

I grew kale last year as SWMBO said she liked it, well we didn't like it that much, so that was binned, tried romanesc this year and that was better, I don't like caulis at all, but that was edible........just.

[veggiechicken]

I never liked chillies.......................................
still don't

[Lumpy]

Thanks to my Dad I had a childhood stuffed with all kinds of normal and unusual veggies. However, I still don't like marrow, even the ones I grew myself.

When I met my OH (Noah was still a boy) he refused to eat any veg other than tinned carrots and tinned peas.......................umpteen years on he will now eat anything and everything in the fruit and veg department. Just as well really as I could not imagine spending all these years with a tinaholic.

[Snoop Puss]

What an interesting thread. I've never grown marrow or mooli, but they sound like they're well worth trying. So thanks Jay-ell, Cadalot and Snadger.

I had never bought or tried a squash till the first year I had a veg patch. Mr Snoop sneered every time he saw the plants. They're now an essential every year.

Most of what I grow we like. I have tried a few things that we haven't enjoyed (physalis being one). One thing's for certain, we eat far more veg than we ever used to and probably more variety in each meal.

[Jungle Jane]

I haven't tried growing anything I haven't heard of but sounds good! I've always liked everything,ate Brussels sprouts as a kid etc. I'd eat any fruit & veg,the only thing I've bought this year is avocado & cucumber (my cucumbers have been so slow this year!)