which veg variety would you grow again

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I have tried a few new (to me) varieties of veggies this year and I know for a fact that I will be getting them again

duncan cabbage it geminates quickly and grows quickly into a neat, blemish free cabbage with a lovely tasty, pointy heart

petrowski turnip what a lovely find that was, so creamy and sweet and grows fairly quickly. Flea beetle likes it but watering the seedlings daily helped. Lovely steamed or roasted

oskar peas grows to about 3-4 tall and they are in raised beds and a planter (meant to grow to 2`). I am at the end pickings now but like them so much that I am leaving some for seed. Very sweet taste


resistafly carrot what a nice surprise and grew very well in patiogro troughs and in a raised bed. That will be my carrot of choice next year. Lovely sweet taste and germinated well. I pulled lots as baby carrots and what a treat

lobjoits lettuce germinated well and transplanted well. Standing well in all weathers and delicious too. It is a robust cos type

dazzle red glossy lettuce and trouble free also tasty

I have all the usual like botardy, little gem, gardeners delight and no wonder a lot of these are so popular, year on year

elsien

I'm not that organised, I'm afraid.
Despite my best intentions I forget to label, or I get things mixed up, so mostly by the end of the season I've no idea what I've grown. I keep planning to keep a little notebook or something, but it never gets past the planning stage.

Sally_A

I keep changing my mind re sweetcorn, Swift was always my No 1 choice, but after a let down year I shifted to Lark - am back to Swift this year and have had nearly 100% germination success (but they were treated seeds, which I am normally a bit dubious about from Moles, but so cheap.....250 seeds - enough for a few years yet at the price of a 30 seed packet or two ).

Aqua dulce broad beans are always reliable, as are bog standard basic Zucchini courgettes, Enorma runner beans, and like you say above - Gardeners Delight toms are the easiest and quick to ripen - they may be common but they are well worth their space.

Oooh ooh - almost forgot.......Marketmore cucumbers for outdoors.

Am a bit taken with Cornichon de Paris gherkins this year too.

.....and pretty in purple chillis - approx 100 per plant, nice comopact and ornimental with a chilli that will blow you head off

Basil - bog standard green/sweet genovese - I have some purple varieties growing, but the original is still the best in my opinion - if it ain't broke don't fix it.

Garlic - almost forgot - variety Music.......a real trooper that always seems to come good.

a1cat

Midnight F1 courgette for containers

freelander37

not sure of the exact variety but Mr Fothergill's mini carrots planted in pots on my patio have been a great success, the odd one has succumbed to carrot fly but most of them look very happy! and basil, chives and mint are all doing well too.

WhiteHorse

Marrow plants are tremendous value for money. Rhubarb, if you can get it going and can fight off the slugs. Beetroot for pickling. More unusual vegetables like salsify perhaps, or odd (read old), varieties of carrots. Runner beans - slice and freeze in bricks.

Always herbs - I have troughs of mint, coriander, basil and parsley every year. I chop them and freeze them in ice cube trays (tip out into bigger boxes when frozen). Instant fresh herbs throughout the winter! (Dried herbs lose the aromatic oils, that's why they can be bitter). Just drop into soup, sauces etc.

If you like fruit, try a gooseberry bush. No trouble, just let it get on with it, unlike rasberries and the like. Rarely seen in supermarkets and quite pricey if you do.

D&DD

This year I have discovered tall peas
Our garden is tiny therefore everything has to earn its space..the whole family eat peas so it makes sense to grow more than the few measly pods we get off the short ones which never make it to the pot anyway!

Have had great results so far from
Alderman
Telephone
Show perfection (all from Robinsons seeds)
and have Nu *something or other* growing too as well as some purple podded ones to look nice

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I have a marrow growing and pruducing, called bush baby. So far so good as it has been trouble free. I still have to taste the marrows to see if I will grow this variety again

I have 3 gooseberry called invicta, they are incredibly spiny but I have grown them in the past and they are very productive with nice fruits for pies

I have rhubard called stockbridge arrow, timperley and grandads favourite. All growing well and only planted this year so cannot tell you about taste yet

I am growing marketmore for the first time

I am growing and am using basil genovese, it is lovely and pungent and reminds me so much of holidays. I will grow again

radar onions were overwintered and are/were extremely good. No bolting and lovely taste. Red electric also overwintered, a few bolters and large onions with a very mild taste. Radar is the better one and I will choose that one again

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d and dd, I was looking at telephone description the other day. If you were growing just one tall one then which one would you choose?

D&DD

kittie wrote: »

d and dd, I was looking at telephone description the other day. If you were growing just one tall one then which one would you choose?

TBH Kittie they have all performed really well I'm really impressed with the way they've shot up the poles!Very strong plants.

I'll let you know which performs the best on the taste trials I like them all and have not seperated when picking but one definately has fuller pods will check the labels *I actually put some on..there's a first* :rotfl:

foxgloves

Definitely Tiffany cucumber variety.......I've had 7 huge cukes off my plants already, and a load more to come. Also a variety of coriander seed I hadn't tried before, called 'Calypso'. I'm pretty green-fingered on the whole but coriander, which I like using a lot in cooking, just seemed to be beyond me. In the past, I've tried it as individual plants.....they bolt too soon, and as cut & come again, which is better but still only get a couple of cuts before bolting. This variety called Calypso has a very low growing point which means it can be cut quite low but will still grow back strongly. I've only got it in a seed tray, but have had 5 good cuts from it and it still hasn't given up. I've got a couple of trays outside & one in the greenhouse & they seem to be doing about the same. When one tray is finished, I'm going to move to cropping the next one & get the first one re-sown and try to keep it going as long into the Autumn as I can.