What are you most looking forward to growing this year?

[Flummery]

As usual I look forward to growing my favourites to eat - spuds and tomatoes! I love all growing things though and try womething new each time.

[Currysniffa]

For I look forward to the first of everything, from the first radish,lettuce & beetroot through to the first new potato, calabrese & tomato and everything I grow in between, can't wait to get on the lottie now

[Snadger]

Last year I tried open pollinated sprouts without much success. I'm ashamed to say it but I'm looking forward to growing two types of F1 hybrid sprouts (Trafalgar & Wellington) that I've gtown before with great success!

[Sqft'ers]

Oh, forgot to say trying different beans and tomatoes as find they're so easy, grow smaller or dwarf types on the patio which get warmth & light reflected from the walls.
We like large marrows for the table but don't think would be very successful in 'square foot� cloches (Maybe someone will disagree) where hoping to grow most of the stuff this year.

Also forgot to say, thank you all for Welcomes.

[Newton]

Brassicas for the first time..........fingers crossed!

[horticultural_hobbit]

Dinners, snacks, the odd side dish.

What with an allotment now, rather than pots in Pop's backgarden; anything that will come off. Ma is still wanting Bollywood spinach. I have tonnes of peas, and curcurbits. Lots of them to be grown. If I can grow some part of Kismet dinner that would be lovely.

[Plot10]

I'm determined that this will be the year I successfully grow carrots. Previously they've either been infested with carrot fly, ended up all leaf and no root or failed to germinate completely. I know they're probably not cost effective to grow as they're only about 49p a kilo from the supermarket but they're such a staple it seems silly to buy them when I've got all this space to grow.

[gardenpassion]

Potatoes, potatoes, potatoes..... what is more satisfying than digging up and uncovering the first earlies? They always taste so great This year I am trying 6 different types, some for exhibition and some for taste. I am really looking forward to seeing how they turn out and hoping to space them out for a long season of potato abundance!!

[snuffer]

For me it has to be broad beans. Those first pickings when the beans are nice and small are a special treat. I always plant some in the Autumn as well as spring to ensure the earliest crop possible.

[Bexy]

BlueBerrys from The offer in gyo Mag i got thru the door...... MMMmm Fresh Blueberry Muffins of yes

[Chocolate8me]

I have only ever grown tomatoes once & they were a disaster. Oh & cress as a kid ;o)

This year, we have a bigger house with a bigger garden & I've already built & half filled my raised bed. The greenhouse base is done, just need the weather to improve to do the rest then I am going to go mad with my seeds that I had delivered last month.

Long story short... Carrots, Strawberries, Parsnips, Salad Leaves, Peppers, Babycorn, Chillies, Leeks, Spring Onions, Peas, etc.

[Marge]

At the allotment group that I volunteer at we are planning to have a go at growing 'Home Guard' potatoes. I read about this variety in a reprint of a book by wartime garden writer, Mr Middleton. My dad vaguely remembers people growing this variety when he was just a kid.

And aside from potatoes I want to grow celeriac from seed - wish me luck

[Ali Apple]

my garlic that i planted last november, it is looking so good, dispite the frost, hope it comes up trumps! any advise allways welcome xxxx

[Ali Apple]

I grew my carrots in tubs and grew them on my outside table.... great result! no root fly, think it was too high for them. Best of luck! xx

[Helgalush]

Swiss chard - I tried it for the first time last year grown in containers at home, and just loved the flavour and texture, and so easy to grow! Its like the best of spinach and spring greens added together, and so tender when cooked. You cant get it in the supermarkets (or at least not any here that I've seen) so that is a MUST this year. I will be trying rainbow and golden chard this year too.

I'm also looking forward to growing some purple climbing beans and some different varieties of tomato and pepper.