Your challenge - what should I grow?

Zazen999

I do the same as Lotus-eater - with veg rather than fruit though.

Lotus-eater

I do it with veg as well, best ones to grow in my opinion.
Sweetcorn, french beans, tomatoes, courgettes, garlic, swiss chard (or perpetual spinach).
Don't forget rhubarb.:)

These all IMHO give the best ease of growing/best taste/cost value

edit: and rocket, seriously nice and quick/easy. I'm going to try growing it inside this year, as I'm fed up with the flea beetles eating the leaves

edit again: and lettuce, go for the mixed leaves, cut and come again seed.

What have I missed?

Zazen999

Onions?

My find of 2007 was the Cherokee Trail of Tears bean.

And, that you can grow over about 10 months in one container and get several different crops in one lot of compost - I have posted about this before but it was fab.

Also peas - beautiful and I never fail to bring out the old 'I've just had a pee in the courtyard/garden' line -- hilarious.

And tomatoes - the little ones that grow for months on end; tumbling toms I think the name is; we got loads from one plant and as the other toms all got blight it was a godsend.

And, lastly, Romanesco is a godsend through the winter; absolutely gorgeous to look at and lovely on the plate. [green spirally cauli if you don't know it].

Lotus-eater

I love fresh peas and grow them every year, I don't think they are good value to grow though, you can buy frozen ones very cheaply.

Same as pototoes and onions, they are so cheap to buy, it seems hardly worth it if you don't have alot of space.
Spring onions yes, but they seem to take forever to grow for me. I've sown some a couple of weeks ago and I'll see how they do this year.

I absolutely adore purple sprouting brocolli, but with the space it takes up, its not really practicable.

Charlton_King

I've had nothing but trouble with growing soft fruit. Unreliable and very prone to mildewing and disease, not to mention birds.