What are you most looking forward to growing this year?

[Nikki Arnold]

Heritage variety of celeriac? An exotic crop of sweet pototes? An allotment staple like courgette? We'd like to know what you are looking forward to growing most this year and why?

[DGoulston]

for me its
Purple Climbing Beans (sent to me by my secret santa on here)
Iranian Red Chilli
Gusto Purple Chilli

I love my chilli's and never heard of Iranian Red, and love the Idea of Purple veg as its not something you can really buy.

Darren

[Nicos]

Outdoor tomatoes and chillies.
Tomatoes- because I lost all my plants to blight last year and have really missed the lovely flavour of home-grown tomatoes.
- and if I can grow chillies then it means we'll have had a lovely sunny Summer!

[VirginVegGrower]

All of my HSL collection, plus Bluebelle potatoes (first time). Can't pick just one sorry
Ooh and my grapevine swap tomatoes...see, the list grows!

Reasons?
Bluebelle potatoes - beauty queen of the potato show bench apparently and favoured spud of the gourmet gods.
Tomatoes - because as a family we love them. Plums for passata and endless pasta. Vine for endless salads. Cherry toms for eating like smarties. Beefsteak for eating with mozzarella and home grown basil...mmmmm!
HSL varieties - because they are forgotten treasures and I want to rebel against the banal bureaucracy of EU approved seed. Another reason I have purchased only Real Seeds this year. I will not be dictated to.

[binley100]

erm.........everything ,including pretty things . I just love growing

[Thelma Sanders]

Red Oca - because I've never grown or eaten them - gonna be a big surprise if anything grows, and

some Heritage peas, thanks to Zaz and an allotment neighbour

[veggiechicken]

Call me predictable if you will, but its the same thing every year - my first sun-ripened tomato! I refuse to buy any of the tasteless shop toms throughout the winter so the first one of my own is something extra special. If I can pick one even earlier this year as a result of the Vine's early bush tomato challenge I shall be a very happy bunny!!

[daisygrubber]

purple french beans, my runners looked so nice while they were in flower last year I thought I would buy some of these instead of flowers and kill 2 birds with one stone.

[Bren In Pots]

Mines also tomatoes, you just can't buy nice tasting toms even the organic aren't as nice as mine so like V/Chicken I've given up buying them.

[chefgage]

Unfortunately I am having to get rid of the green house to make way for a decking area. So I am looking
Forward to trying my hand at growing cucumbers outdoors. The outdoor tomatoes I grew last year went
Very well so i will be growing them again.

But the main thing I am looking Forward to growing is strawberries. In the past years I have mostely been
Growing veg, so this year I have set aside a raised bed just for the strawberries!

[Piggle]

ooh definately my growing collection of squash especially sucrette and thelma sanders hubbard- they look like little creatures and I always get a kick out of putting them in the hall when they are ready.

To be honest I always feel bad about cutting them up as they all seem to assume personalities ..... my jumbo pink banana is currently wearing sunglasses and a nice bow tie.

Is that weird ?

[Sqft'ers]

Too many to choose from as we like just about everything. (Both brought up in the war years when you ate what’s on the plate)!
Trying the ‘square foot’ idea have 96 raised bed squares to fill with goodies and mention every one when they’re all growing like mad later, if not sooner.

[Aberdeenplotter]

I'm totally in agreement with the guys who have said tomatoes. They are a huge miss on the kitchen worktop when the season's crop is finished. The tomatoes in the shop's may look like tomatoes but they don't smell like tomatoes and they don't taste like tomatoes. In fact they don't taste like anything

[VirginVegGrower]

I'm totally in agreement with the guys who have said tomatoes. They are a huge miss on the kitchen worktop when the season's crop is finished. The tomatoes in the shop's may look like tomatoes but they don't smell like tomatoes and they don't taste like tomatoes. In fact they don't taste like anything

They do...water!

[HeatherL]

This will be our second year of growing fruit and veg. We've just joined the Heritage Seed Library and are looking forward to growing something a little different from the norm. We've also just placed our seed order including a few new things to try this year like salsify, scorzonera and physalis. My other half also wants to grow some heritage apple varieties in a mini orchard at the top of the garden - he says he's fed up of the supermarkets limiting us to what size, shape and variety we should eat!