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This has been one of my favorite threads for the last two summers, so I thought I'd start it up again.
We have lots more room this year in the garden to grow veg and fruit, after we emptied most of our bed of flowers . So this year we are growing:
Toms x 3 varities
Courgettes
Lots of lettuce x 8 types. (Green frills, pearl, mizuna, rocket, etc)
French Green Beans
Runner Beans
Rainbow Chard
Peas
Spinach
Spring onions.
Red and white onions (thanks Bonnie )
Carrots
Giants Red Mustard.
Beetroot
Sweetcorn
Cabbage
Pumpkins
Cucumber
Leeks

As for fruit:
Goosegogs
Raspberries
Strawberries and Alpine (thanks Snapdragon )
Redcurrants
Rhubarb
Apples.

What is everyone growing???

Ahhh, not fair. I joined a site that lets you draw the full plan of your garden out (although I only did my veggie bit) and then it gives you one-click info tabs on cultivation etc for each plant. It also sends you email reminders for succession sowings and come next year it will give me the optimal rotation plan - sorted!

Their new tool is to save the file to a webpage & then from there you can link it out to forums or share on FB. Except mine isn't working :-( Their techie man has assured me he will find out why, so hopefully you can see what's what in a few days.

In the meantime - this year....

Asparagus (2nd yr for crowns, 1st yr for seeds)
Broad beans
Runner beans
Beetroot
Brussels
Cabbage
Carrot
Cauliflowers
Chives
Courgette
Cucumber
Gooseberry
Horseradish
Lettuce
Mint
Onion
Oregano
Parsley
Parsnip
Peas
Pepper
Potatoes
Radishes
Raspberry
Rhubarb
Rosemary
Sage
Spring Onion
Strawberry
Swede
Thyme
Tomato
Turnip

Oh, and hopefully this year we'll have mini Kiwis, then apples, pears, crab apples, plums & cherries - yay!!

OMG I can't list it all out - but what I'm growing different this year which I haven't before is

Summer savory
French beans buerre (the yellow ones)
Pak Choi purple (doing well and not being attacked by flea beetle)
and I've bought a packet of stripy red and white beetroot.
Still waiting for some different little pumpkins (Windsor) to bother to germinate - only 7 seeds in the packet and the first two did nothing so the 2nd lot of 2 are in the propagator..... cross fingers.....
Some different shallots
Some different remontant strawbs called believe it or not 'Charlotte'.
Some different tomato varieties bought from garden centre - Pineapple, Lemon Boy, Noire de Crimee (as well as other ones I've grown before)

Otherwise it is all the usual stuff but not borlotti or runner beans this year.

Woo! I can show you all now - looks a lot nicer than a list - can't wait for harvest time

http://www.growveg.com/garden-plan.aspx?p=161881

At home:

Strawberries
Tomatoes
Potatoes (Orla and Robinta)
Dwarf Beans
Chillis
Courgettes
Ridge Cucumbers
Chervil, mint, oregano, marjoram, rosemary, sage, lemon balm, thyme and chamomile in the herb garden / herb tyre

At the raised bed at the community garden:
Salsify
Kale
Purple Sprouting Broccoli (Very early and early)
Turnips
Chard
Spring Onions
Carrots - Amsterdam forcing and Kingston
Salad leaves
Leeks
Garlic
Beetroot - Solist (not having any joy with that at all, from two drills only 2 seeds have germinated) and Cylindra
Dill, coriander and flat leaf parsley
Pak Choi
Mizuna

We're sorting out the polytunnel at the garden this year - the growbags didn't work well, too many people bashing past the plants and a few people neglecting their tomatoes so most of us lost the bulk of our crop thanks to Botrytis; so we're now building mini-raised beds. Less people can have them, sadly (not enough room), but we're hoping to embrace whole-year-round growing as much as possible. For me, this is an adventure!

JulieSherris wrote:Woo! I can show you all now - looks a lot nicer than a list - can't wait for harvest time

http://www.growveg.com/garden-plan.aspx?p=161881

That is excellent.

Boboff, I only found that little site a few days ago - I have to say I really am impressed.

I still have to enter planting dates & notes to myself about varieties & such, but a good little bit of kit to have on the PC!

I can imagine it now - I am sat at the PC on my 'arris, procrastinating (again!) when a new email pops up.... "Time to plant the new section of carrots/garlic/peas/whatever..." OK, it won't FORCE me out my chair, but should tug at my conscience just long enough to get me out!
Plus I won't look through my book & think 'oh bugger, should have sowed X/Y/Z 2 weeks ago...'
Brilliant!

Very posh Julie. Mine's just drawn scruffily on a sheet of A4.

Here goes -

Onions;
Spring Onions;
Potatoes - 2 lots of earlies, 1 mains;
Beetroot - 2 varieties;
Carrots - 3 varieties;
Spinach - 5 varieties;
Pak Choi;
Rocket;
Leeks;
Broccoli;
Celery;
Sweetcorn;
Chard;
Chilli's - cayenne and jalapeno;
Tomato - baby and roma;
Peppers - 2 varieties;
Courgettes;
Mint;
Chives;
Sage;
Basil;
Rosemary;
Lemongrass;
Thyme;
Oregano;
Parsley;
Thai basil.

I think that's it??!! Looking back, that's quite a lot for a second year grower. I've got the bug...

And runner beans, how could I forget those!??

This year we have:
Tomatoes (Moneymaker, Costuloto di Fionentina, Tumbling, Which blight resistant trial)
Chilli
Hot Banana Pepper
Courgette (Black Beauty, All green Bush, f1 zucchini)
Butternut Squash
Cucumber
French Bean - Cobra
Dwarf French Bean - Purple Queen
Mangetout
Peas - Boogie
Asparagus Pea
Swiss Chard
Spinach
Beetroot
Carrots
Salads
Lettuce
Rocket

Herbs:
basil
thyme
flat leaf parsley

perennials:
Rosemary,
thyme,
sage,
tarragon,
chives,
Angelica,
Mint,
Lavender,
Oregano

Fruit: All planted since we moved in last July
Strawberry (6 varieties )
Redcurrant
Blackcurrant
Blueberries (4 varieties)
Apples (4 varieties)
Plum (2 varieties)
Cherry (patio)
Raspberries (3 varieties)
Rhubarb


Flowers:
From seed-
Sweet Pea (x2)
Marigold
Petunia
Lobelia
Mimulus
Salpiglossis
Larkspur
Rudbeckia
Nasturtium
Zinnia
Clematis
Dahlia
Dianthus

Cuttings-
Geranium
Fushia
Osteospernum
Daisy

Phew, that's a lot when you write it all out. No wonder our conservatory has spent the past 4 months looking like a posh greenhouse!!! Loving having a bigger garden to fill (first summer in our new house).

Broad bean Aquadulce
Broad bean Longpod, Imperial
Broad bean Vroma
Butter bean saved
French bean Borlotti
French bean Borlotti Climbing
French bean climbing Cobra
French bean Fin de bagnol
French bean Mont D'Or
French bean Purple climbing (own seed)
French bean Purple Teppe
Pea Douce de Provence
Pea Feltham First
Pea Hurst Greenshaft
Pea Sima
Pea Mangetout Caroube de Mousanne
Pea Mangetout Oregan Sugar Pod
Runner bean White Lady
Sweet Pea Cathy
Sweet Pea Heathcliffe
Sweet Pea Memories
Sweet Pea Percy Thrower

Brussel sprout Noisette
Brussel sprout Wellington
Cabbage Golden Acre
Cabbage Hispi
Cabbage Holland late white
Cabbage January King
Cabbage Savoy Ormskirk
Red cabbage
Calabrese Sakura
Calabrese Aquiles
Calabrese Sakura
Cauliflower All Year Round
Chinese cabbage Wong Bok
Kale Nero di Toscana
Kale Red Russian
Pak Choi Choko F1
Pak choi red lady
Purple Sprouting Broccoli Claret
Purple Sprouting Broccoli early
Romanesco

Potato Anya
Potato Pink Fir apple
Potato Blue Skerry
Potato Lady Balfour
Potato Charlotte
Potato, couple of other varieties

Beetroot Boltardy
Beetroot Burpees Golden
Beetroot Cylindra
Beetroot Detroit
Beetroot Bulls Blood
Carrot Flackee
Kohl Rabi Kolibri
Parsnip White Gem saved
Radish Daikon
Scornzonara
Swede Brora
Turnip

Garlic Brick Lane (saved)
Garlic Christo
Garlic Cle d'Or
Garlic Germidor saved
Garlic iberian White
Garlic Solent Wight
Garlic Thermadrome saved
Leek Autumn Giant Hanibal
Leek St Victor
Onion japanese First Early
Onion Salad Cipollini
Onion seed Bedfordshire champion
Onion set Red baron
Onion set Sturon
Onion Spring Ishikura
Shallot Golden Gourmet
Shallot Red Sun

Aubergine Black beauty
Chilli saved
Pepper Calafornian Wonder
Tomato Ailsa Craig
Tomato Black Krim
Tomato Black Russian
Tomato Gardners Delight
Tomato Golden Gem
Tomato Golden Sunrise
Tomato Pink Brandywine
Tomato Red Cherry
Tomato Roma bush
Tomato San Marzano

Butternut squash
Courgette saved
Courgette Soleil F1
Cucumber Beta Alpha
Cucumber Marketmore
Cucumber Retsina
Kudoo (Bangladeshi climbing marrow)
Pumpkin Crown Prince (saved)
Pumpkin Uchiki Kuri (saved)
Sweet Corn Early Bird?
Sweet Corn Golden Bantam
Sweet Corn Swift

Melon Ogden saved

Fennel Florence
Seakale Lily white
Spinach Bordeaux
Spinach Galaxy
Spinach Lazio
Spinach Medania
Spinach Toscane

Chicory Apollo
Chicory Palla Rossa
Endive Bubikoff
Endive mixed
Escarole Scarola Verde
Lambs lettuce
Mustard Streaks
Mizuna
Rocket
Lettuce Amorina
Lettuce Bergamo
Lettuce Chartwell
Lettuce Flame
Lettuce Freckles
Lettuce Meravilla de Verano Canasta
Lettuce Mervielle de Quatre Saisons
Lettuce Nymans
Lettuce Oakleaf
Lettuce Pandero
Lettuce Regina Dei Ghiacci
Lettuce Rosetta
Lettuce Rouge d'Hiver
Lettuce Rouge Grenobloise
Lettuce Rubens Red cos
Lettuce Salad bowl
Lettuce Salad bowl Red
Lettuce Verde a Foglia Riccia
Lettuce Winter Density
Lettuce Winter Gem

Artichoke
Asparagus

Basil Genovesie
Basil Holy
Basil Aristotle
Caraway
Coriander
Chives
Garlic chives
Parsley flat leaf
Marjoram
Oregano
Rosemary
Sage
Sorrel
Sorrel Red Veined
Summer Savory
Thyme

Apple Peasgood Nonsuch
Apple Cooker
Apple Russet
Blackberries
Blueberry
Cherry
Fig
Gooseberry
Hazel
Peach
Pear Doyenne du Comice
Plum Victoria
Plum Gage
Raspberries Glen Ample
Rhubarb
Minature peach Amber

Nettles and a few other weeds









































































































































Broad bean Aquadulce
Broad bean Longpod, Imperial
Broad bean Vroma
Butter bean saved
French bean Borlotti
French bean Borlotti Climbing
French bean climbing Cobra
French bean Fin de bagnol
French bean Mont D'Or
French bean Purple climbing (own seed)
French bean Purple Teppe
Pea Douce de Provence
Pea Feltham First
Pea Hurst Greenshaft
Pea Mangetout Caroube de Mousanne
Pea Mangetout Oregan Sugar Pod
Pea Sima
Runner bean White Lady
Sweet Pea Cathy
Sweet Pea Heathcliffe
Sweet Pea Memories
Sweet Pea Percy Thrower

Cabbage Golden Acre
Cabbage Hispi
Cabbage Holland late white
Cabbage January King
Cabbage Savoy Ormskirk
Calabrese Sakura
Calabrese Aquiles
Calabrese Sakura
Cauliflower All Year Round
Chinese cabbage Wong Bok
Kale Nero di Toscana
Kohl Rabi Kolibri
Mustard Streaks
Brussel sprout Noisette
Brussel sprout Wellington
Pak Choi Choko F1
Pak choi red lady
Purple Sprouting Broccoli Claret
Purple Sprouting Broccoli early
Red cabbage
Red Russian Kale
Romanesco
Salad Rocket
Swede Brora
Turnip

Garlic Brick Lane (saved)
Garlic Christo
Garlic Cle d'Or
Garlic Germidor saved
Garlic iberian White
Garlic Solent Wight
Garlic Thermadrome saved
Japanese onion
Leek Autumn Giant Hanibal
Leek St Victor
Onion japanese First Early
Onion japanese First Early
Onion Salad Cipollini
Onion seed Bedfordshire champion
Onion set Red baron
Onion set Sturon
Onion Spring Ishikura
Shallot Golden Gourmet
Shallot Red Sun
Carrot Flackee
Coriander saved
Parsley saved
Parsnip White Gem saved
Ailsa Craig
Aubergine Black beauty
Tomato Black Krim
Tomato Black Russian
Chilli saved
Tomato Gardners Delight
Tomato Golden Gem
Tomato Golden Sunrise
Pepper Calafornian Wonder
Tomato Pink Brandywine
Tomato Roma bush
Tomato San Marzano
Butternut Waltham
Courgette saved
Courgette Soleil F1

Cucumber Beta Alpha
Cucumber Marketmore
Cucumber Retsina
Kudoo
Melon Ogden
Melon Ogden saved
Pumpkin Crown Prince (saved)
Pumpkin Uchiki Kuri (saved)
Sweet Corn Early Bird?
Sweet Corn Golden Bantam
Sweet Corn Golden Bantam
Sweet Corn Swift
Beetroot Boltardy
Beetroot Burpees Golden
Beetroot Cylindra
Beetroot Detroit
Beetroot Bulls Blood

Chard
Spinach Medina, Lazio
Spinach Perpetual

Lettuce Amorina
Lettuce Bergamo
Lettuce Chartwell
Chicory Apollo
Chicory Palla Rossa
Emerald Oak
Endive Bubikoff
Endive mixed
Escarole Scarola Verde
Lettuce Flame
Lettuce Freckles
Lambs lettuce
Rocket
Lettuce Meravilla de Verano Canasta
LettuceMervielle de Quatre Saisons
Mizuna
Lettuce Nymans
Lettuce Oakleaf
Lettuce Pandero
Lettuce Regina Dei Ghiacci
lettuceRosetta
Lettuce Rouge d'Hiver
Lettuce Rouge Grenobloise
lettuce Rubens Red cos
Lettuce Salad bowl
Lettuce Verde a Foglia Riccia
Lettuce Winter Density
Lettuce Winter Gem

Artichoke
Asparagus

Caraway
Coriander
Chives
Garlic chives
Parsley flat leaf
Oregano
Rosemary
Sage
Sorrel
Sorrel Red Veined
Summer Savory
Thyme

Apple Peasgood Nonsuch
Apple Cooker
Apple Russet
Blackberries
Blueberry
Cherry
Fig
Gooseberry
Hazel
Peach
Pear Doyenne du Comice
Plum Victoria
Plum Gage
Raspberries Glen Ample
Rhubarb
Minature peach Amber














































Raddichico plants from Helene
Radish Daikon
Red Cherry
Red Salad Bowl
Rocket
Rouge Grenobloise
Rubens Red
Scornzonara
Scornzonara
Seakale Bright Lights
Seakale Lily white
Spinach Bordeaux
Spinach Galaxy
Spinach Lazio
Spinach Lazio
Spinach Lazio
Spinach Medania
Spinach Toscane
Summer Savory
Sunflower Evening Sun
Sunflower Lemon Leopold
Sunflower Titan
Sweet pea Kathy
Sweet Pea??
Verde a Foglia Riccia
Verde a Foglia Riccia
Wheelers Imperial cabbage

this year we have :

cherry tomatoes
french beans
dwarf beans
leeks
spring onions
challottes
red onions
squash
peppers
chillies
broccili
cabbage
couliflower
various varieties of lettis
parsnips
spinnach
potatoes
rocket


strawberries
raspberries
blackcurrents
rubarb
white grapes

basil
corriander
thyme
rosemary
origano
spearmint
peppermint
marjoram
parsley
sage
chives
lemmon thyme

I doubt anyone without severe autism is reading through all this But since I love talking about me...


Wong bok
Turnips: shogoin, komachi
Swedes: marian, tipperary
Leeks: monstruoso di carenten
Runner beans: Buton
Peas: mangetout and petit pois
Yardlong beans
Achocha
carrots: Nantes early, cosmic purple, paris market
Daikon radishes
Chillies: jalapeno, hungarian hot wax, birds eye, turkish, habanero.
Peppers, bulls horn and sweet bell
Marijuana
Kale: Black tuscany, Delaway cabbage
Pumpkins
Oriental squash
Butternut squash
Gourds: snake gourd, bottle gourd, indian gourd
Red leaf amaranth
Mulukhiyah
Perilla
Thai basil
Vietnamese mint
Coriander
Mexican coriander
mizuna
kohlrabi
tomatoes: beefsteak, money maker, roma vf
strawberries
garlic
onions
Blackcurrants
Gooseberries
Parsley
Potatoes (axona)
Beets, boltardy

I'm thinking if I try really hard my blackberry grove and nettle plantation will come up.

Just to prove you wrong Mabu, can you let us know a bit more about the following that you are growing, eg. what sort of plant they are, ease of growing, length of time in the ground, and of course how tasty they are?

Yardlong beans
Achocha
Red leaf amaranth
Mulukhiyah
Perilla