What vegetables will you be growing this ye... - Healthy Eating
What vegetables will you be growing this year? Multiple choice poll.
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I'm really looking forward to growing tomatoes this year as I had a bumper crop last summer from some baby tomato plants that I bought locally and they tasted so much nicer than shop ones and it was great being able to pick some lettuce and wash it and then eat it. This is something that I really appreciated last year with the lockdowns and the restrictions.
we will be having more polls of what fruit and herbs everyone grows.
Other than what is mentioned in the poll I also grow herbs in containers and carrots in large pots. They are very easy to grow and taste delicious when harvested as baby carrots. I don't have much garden but it is amazing what you can grow in containers...not forgetting flowers to attract the bees 😀
Spinach, butternut squash and courgette.
carrots, leeks, potatoes, peppers, chillies, courgette, peas, beans, herbs,
Chilli peppers, courgettes, red and yellow peppers, aubergine, maybe beans ... Living in Italy.
Kohl rabi, spinach, Swiss chard, potatoes, chillis, asparagus, kale, purple sprouting broccoli, squash, courgettes (zucchini), peas, sweetcorn, possibly others I’ve missed.
Forgot to add, I will try potatoes and I have some herbs. All on a terrace, no garden. I love to grow things and it's great if they end up on the table.
i dont grow vegetables,but i have tried growing tomatoes but its been very hit and miss to be honest,and if you live alone you end up giving most away,or it goes bad.
Courgette, pumpkin, corn. Peas
Courgette, sweet peppers, chillis, various herbs - basil, coriander, oregano, parsley, chives....
When I used to garden with my friend (it was his garden) we used to grow all of the above except for rocket plus swede, potatoes etc, sadly he is no longer with us and because I live in a flat and have health issues I no longer can do any gardening other than the house plants I have.
That’s a shame at least you have some houseplants too enjoy. 🌱😊
I haven’t got a garden, just a balcony, so I’ll be growing herbs mainly. We used to grow all kinds of things!
Morning Jerry!
I'm hoping to grow chard, spinach and French beans again alongside the ones in the poll. Beetroot will be a new veg for me to grow this year and I am thinking about squash as well. There is nothing like walking out into the garden and picking tonight's dinner!
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Last year I planted dozens of seeds/plants but they didn't get as far as planting out due to poor health. This year I've decided to get round that by establishing a Straw Bale Garden. It you seek the Straw Bale Gardening page on FB you'll see my neglected greenhouse and the new project developing. This is what I'm hoping for:
French beans, peas,
Leeks, broccoli, kale,
Sprouts, Purple sprouting broccoli,
Romanesco cauliflower (the lime green one), pumpkin,
Plum tomatoes, cherry tomatoes,
Sweet peppers, sweetcorn,
Onions, garlic,
Potatoes (Maris Piper and Kestrel)
Fennel, coriander,
If we can't eat or freeze what comes then I'll take it to the food bank. This lockdown project has helped me to keep my sanity!
Kale, sweet corn, chillies
Lettuce assorted, rainbow carrots, tomatoes, coriander, parsley and mint. If I can grow cucumbers in a pot I'll have a go, but not sure if I can. Will need to google it? x
Endamame beans, peas, carrots, parsnips, kale, broccoli and some purple brussel sprouts, cucumbers and gherkins for pickling. At least that’s the plan!
sweet peas as well, only half ever manage to get to our plates as they usually get eaten before it gets to cooking stage
Onions, Spring onions, peppers, cucumber, spinach
Sweet corn
Along with the rocket and lettuce, I’ll be growing Swiss chard, various kinds of Kale, oriental mustards and three types of cucumber because I love home grown cucumbers. I’m trying a crunchy Japanese type and some round crystal lemons along with a regular type. I’m also growing golden beetroot rather than the regular kind. I grew some last year and it was delicious. Not earthy like the regular kind and much sweeter.
None
Garden peas
I only have a small garden so I'm going to try chard this year as well as beetroot which did quite well for me last year.
I am looking forward to trying tomatoes and peppers again this year. I planted them too late last year, and got no output.
I had some success with radishes and courgettes last year, so I'll be planting them again. My purple sprouting broccoli from last year is nearly ready, and I have some garlic bulbs pushing through.
We paved an extra area of the garden and I hope to build a couple of trough planters from old pallets for the edges. I plan to fill one with herbs, which will keep our bunnies happy, feed us and keep the bees happy too 
I'll be doing kale and squash 😊
An excellent poll Jerry.
My hubby has planted the beetroot and carrots and they are now making an appearance plus we also have beans to plant later on, can't beat growing your own.
Alicia👍🌈🌞😋
Courgettes yellow and green plus lots of herbs and small tub of new potatoes. The beans and tomatoes i pick daily and freeze them. Tomatoes are grown in a medium size hay basket three to a pot of tumbling red and yellow.
We also grow peppers, chillies,courgettes and squashes, peas and strawberries. In addition we fit in as many unusual veg as we can.
Zucchini and cucumbers!
Lettuce and tomatoes are on the list.I sowed some carrots the other day and I’m gonna grow cucumbers and possibly courgette?
In one of the beds I am going to grow a mish-mash.
I have a jar full of various seeds so I shall sprinkle those on the bed and see what grows and also because we add food scraps to the soil as well then I could end up with volunteer plants... again :).
I like the sound of mish-mash! Is it easy to cook?
Is that a serious question or were you being funny?
I’m sorry if you thought a mish-mash was a type of vegetable, it isn’t.
When I said I had a ‘mish-mash’ in one of my flower beds, I meant I had a mixture of different salad-type veg like celeriac, celery, red leaf lettuce (lollo), bok choi, and spinach.
It’s nothing exciting :).
Sorry, Matt. It was an attempt at comedy but now feels like a lead balloon!
I'm all for mixing veggies and flowers in the same bed. Some of the chards are very colourful and look great together. Sorry for being silly. Been in lockdown too long!
It’s ok, I don’t mind the silly-ness, silly-ness is fun and I think we need a bit more of it, to be honest :).You’re lucky I was on the ball because I could have replied by saying that a mish-mash was not a type of vegetable and not even mention if you were asking a serious question or not :). I could have thought you were dead serious.
I have fallen into this trap before :).
Come to think of it though, I like the sound of mish-mash too, is it related to the potato? :).
Over the past 3 years I have has a volunteer chard grow in my plot.
The past 2 years the main flower bed I had was 1 big bed and I had a chard in one corner.
This year, that 1 large bed is now 6 small beds and there is no chard but there is a pot to the left of those beds that does have a chard in it.
It’s funny cos I never planted anything at all in that pot and I have the chard and I had a potato in there too.
I’ve uprooted the potato as the leaves were going yellow.
I had 4 or 5 small potatoes on the end, not bad for a freebie :).
They did look a bit rotten though.
And by the way, borage was growing in that pot last year.
I was happy cos the bees loved it :).
Potatoes and onions and pole beans.
pumpkin
Also, leeks, shallots, carrots, peas and potatoes
I grew tomatoes last year (in the window of my city flat) and had amazing success, I never thought I would be that successful with tomatoes here. I only tried it because someone gave me a small plant.This year I am hoping to add salad leaves and some herbs, maybe even try growing some in my garden though that is probably risky as my garden gets some unfriendly foot traffic from passing youths. I have this fear they might pee on the lettuce or something this has held me back from growing edible plants in the past, plus it is disheartening when things get broken, which they do.
Back indoors I am also quite curious about micro greens.....
Growing tomatoes in a pot inside a window is a great way to grow them so good for you and what a great idea growing micro greens I’m sure that could ve very successful. So I’d be interested how you get on. 😊
Strawberries
As well as lettuce, radish and tomatoes I'll be growing carrots, potatoes, peas, kale and then cucumbers, courgettes (zucchini) and pumpkins (technically fruit, as are tomatoes). About 7 years ago I met a vegan man from Romania who grows all his own food there. He gifted me some tomato seeds so I could grow some "real tomatoes that are ugly shape but full of beautiful flavour" - not genetically modified or some other perfect looking but tasteless variety. Unfortunately I was in no position to spend time in my garden back then, working all hours trying to save our failing business. But I saved those seeds in the hope I could plant them "next year". Well it has been 7 years and at last I have time to grow my own. I thought those tomato seeds were probably too old now, but I sowed them any way. I'm pleased to say that almost every seed has sprouted and is growing well. So I am really looking forward to tasting some "real" tomatoes later this year, and will save some seeds if they're as good as he said.
Nothing, I haven't got a garden only a yard.
If you Google Straw Bale Gardening you may find a workaround. You don't actually need soil to grow veggies.
I will also be attempting Carrotts and Spring Onions as my daughter bought me two raised trugs .
I am growing asparagus and herbs: sage, parsley, thyme. Health issues prevent me from growing what I normally grow: potatoes, tomatoes and runner beans. Reading through these replies has made me think that I may try lettuce, beetroot, carrots, chard and spinach, but not sure if I have left it to late with any of these. If anyone could let me know please. Thank you. 🙂🥕
Huh! I did have a greenhouse full of mini plants, beautifully germinated cruciferous plantlets of all kinds. I also had an exquisite little pumpkin plant intended for my small grandson for Halloween. Until, overnight, all the plants disappeared. On checking the trays I discovered a slug under every single one! I managed to buy cauliflower, two cabbage types and brocolli but disappointed not to have any sprouts or that unusual lime green coloured cauliflower. The only plantlets not eaten up were leeks! So disappointing.
I don't use slug pellets in the garden because I don't want to harm the birds and hedgehog but I have put pellets around the edges in the green house and will have to start again.
I squished a cherry plum tomato on to some soil to see what would happen, and I now have several little plants.
