Topic: What is the veg you are growing for the first time this year?

[caseylee]

I have gone overboard and bought way to many different things, I need about 10 allotments to grow them all, its all teh excitment of something new

[Fran]

Achocha, okra, patty pan squash, a Japanese leafy thing I cant remember the name, Cherokee trail of tears beans and Rose Berne pink tomatoes - probably more.

[Rhys]

I'm looking forward to see how these get on for the first time....

Watercress
Butternut Squash
Endive
Mushrooms
Garlic

[saddad]

Endive shoudn't give you any problems.. Rhys... Perilla (again).

[antipodes]

Hmm let's see:
New things:
broad beans (overwintered)
Cocos de Paimpol "shelly" beans (big white beans that you eat semi-dried)
Gallia green melons (if they work)
Swiss chard, rhubarb red type
red cabbage
red onions
echalotes
sweetcorn

Things I am doing differently:
spuds, make sure I have earlies, 2nds and maincrop  ;)
peas (more and spread over time)
garlic has been overwintered and is doing great
cabbage and leeks I am growing from seed instead of buying plants

Things I am not doing:
landcress (didn't work at all)
gherkin cucumbers (hopeless)
parsnips - no one at our place wants to eat them
romanesco - they take up too much room

[Flunky]

All of them, ??? I only started this lottie business 4 weeks ago !!  ;D

I want to try as many things as I dare. The worst that can happen is that some dont grow.

Concentrating on :

Potatoes, carrots, onions, peas, beans, leeks.

Salad stuff ie. Lettuce, tomatoes. spring onion etc.

Would really like to grow sweet corn, Rhubard and asparagus. mmmmmm home grown veggies.

[markfield rover]

For starters
Quillquina
Peanut
Asparagus

[Barnowl]

Melons, squash, Banana Passion Fruit (courtesy of Amazin), Borlotti, cannellini, Fagioli and Pea beans, and Rhubarb plus bits and pieces like chard, sorrel and mizuna.

[Deb P]

I'm growing more varieties of veg we eat a lot of rather than trying anything new this season. Because last year was my first on the allotment, it was a real trial and error time as the soil had not been grown on for some time, and I had no idea what would do well. I grew a wide range of veg, some I don't think I will try again like Kohl Rabi!

I'm on the waiting list for a second plot, but even with my garden space at home there is not enough room for everything I would like to grow, so I've used the time off I've had to have whilst being poorly to plan as quick a turnaround of crops as possible to make best use of the space. So this year I'm only growing first and second early potatoes for example so I can harvest them and follow on with other crops.

I have gone a bit mad with greenhouse tomatoes though, thanks to various seed swaps I have loads of varieties new to me to try, and I'm going to be growing 36 different varieties in the same greenhouse....plus my cucumbers, chillies and peppers on staging......wish me luck! ;D

[debster]

i will be growing a huge variety of chillis and tomatoes new to me, aubergine and non edibles ie flowers, i am probably only one of a few people who can say growing peanuts are not new to them, well i grew one before anyway  ;D

[Rhubarb Thrasher]

those Cocos de Paimpol look groovy antipodes, they've got their own official AOC website
http://cocodepaimpol.free.fr/index2.htm

[caseylee]

debster is it hard to grow peanuts, I got the seeds for it but how long does it take would I be able to pick this year or next

[antipodes]

those Cocos de Paimpol look groovy antipodes, they've got their own official AOC website
http://cocodepaimpol.free.fr/index2.htm

Oh yeah! cool! (yes they are an AOC, or product of specific geographical origin, if you grow them in Britanny I guess!!)
That is the traditional way of cooking them, with onions, garlic and tomatoes, you cook them till they are very soft. You pick them fresh and cook them straight away (or freeze them) or you can dry them too. They are pretty pods, cream with red streaks and creamy coloured beans inside. They cost the earth to buy!! so for 3 euros I have a packet of seeds, which hopefully will give me a few kilos of beans, and some to save!!!

[wiltshire lass]

Im growing chilies and aubergines for the first time ever.this is my second year of gardening so a lot is a first for me ;D

[Angelah]

Easier to say what we've grown before!!! New to this too!! Last year we had the sweetcorn and runner beans growing in the garden - fab, just finishing the runner beans off now.

Intending to grow:
potatoes
sweetcorn
strawberries
redcurrant/blackcurrant
goosegogs
raspberries
onions
squash - we get through loads
jerusalem artichokes
carrots - youngest lives on carrots
climbing french beans
runner beans

oh and probably loads of other things I've forgotten!!!

[Robert_Brenchley]

Magnum Bonum peas, Grando Violetto BB's  and Trail of Tears beans.