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Top 10 or 12 - Veggie - 21-01-2023
Just been watching a Huw Richards Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qD0EG1djPms&t=15s about planning your garden.
Now planning and I don't exactly come together very often but one thing he said made me think.
Plan your garden around the 10 or so veggies that are "Must Grows" and give them the most space. Can't remember the %. Then give a smaller % to the veg that you're not so keen on.
Anyway, I started listing my 10/12 Must Grows and where I could grow them best.
GH = Tomatoes, Cucumber, Lettuce/salad leaves
Outdoor = Courgette, CFB, Mangetout, Broad beans, Carrots, Leek, Potatoes, Kale, Beetroot
My 2nd choices are Onion, Squash, cabbage/broccoli/brussels sprouts/cauli, Peas
My 3rd choices are Turnip, swede, Celery, Fennel, Radish, Kohl Rabi and the experimentals like Quinoa, Amaranth.
Interestingly, My 1st choice veg are also the ones that I find easiest to grow (apart from potatoes!)
My 2nd Choice are usually failures, even the onions from sets end up small
3rd choice, apart from radish, never turn out the way they should.
RE: Top 10 or 12 - Small chilli - 21-01-2023
Interesting! My top 10 / 12 .
Beans runner
Beans french
Lettuce / salad leaves
Cucumber
Tomato
Chillies
Courgette
Squash
Broccoli
Carrots
Asparagus
Kale
That was difficult to choose.
Close second leeks, onions, cabbage, peas, rhubarb, potatoes, swede.
RE: Top 10 or 12 - Veggie - 21-01-2023
I didn't include rhubarb or asparagus because they're perennial - maybe I should have ?
RE: Top 10 or 12 - Small chilli - 22-01-2023
I wasn’t sure if included perennials was a good idea or not. Especially as they are crops that definitely always have a dedicated space because they’re perennials.
I’d swap out the asparagus for aubergine. I forgot about aubergine
RE: Top 10 or 12 - JJB - 22-01-2023
Isn't it almost just common sense? Grow that which you're likely to eat, the rest of the space is allowed for experiments. I suppose that's why my patch is boring and the same year after year.
My first choices
GH tomatoes and cucumbers, the difficulty lies in choosing the varieties
Outside
Beans - I'm going to cheat here and lump some together DFB and CFB
Broad beans
Courgettes
Sweetcorn
Carrots
Chard
Onions/garlic
Trombas
Kale
The less important
Beetroot
Pumpkins
Salad leaves/lettuce
Pak choi
Then there's the list of don't bother even though they're common
Cabbage and other brassicas
Potatoes
RE: Top 10 or 12 - JJB - 22-01-2023
If we include perennials we have to consider the soft fruit too I suppose, strawbs, rasps, currants, tree fruits. Although I think as all these aren't allocated space each year they can be left out of the equation.
RE: Top 10 or 12 - Mark_Riga - 22-01-2023
Interesting that only SC has included peas yet (as a close second) which is definitely on my list to grow more of this year.
I've just defrosted the freezer as it is so cold outside and that has decided some of what I'll be growing. As well as lots of soft fruit, there are 9 bags of squash and 5 of pumpkin so I'll cut down on those at least this year, maybe 3 waltham plants to hopefully save seeds for the future. and there are 7 bags of sweetcorn so that's lunch for a few weeks.
So:
Peas
Onions
potatoes
tomatoes
carrots
garlic
capsicum
french beans (green and dried)
broad beans
beetroot (one sowing does 8/9 months of picking - doing some now for cheese and onion sandwich for lunch).
cauli
cabbage
Very close seconds for me would be: cucumber, courgette, lettuce, aubrergine and parsnips.
RE: Top 10 or 12 - Garrett - 22-01-2023
Without a greenhouse, everything I grow has to go outside. My must grows each year are:
Tomatoes
Runner beans
French beans
Winter squash
Summer squash
Cucumber (for the tortoise)
Lettuce
Chard
Sweet peppers
Spring onion
Others I'm trying to make space for and don't grow every year are:
Mangetout/peas (growing this year)
Sweetcorn (grew last year)
Garlic (already planted)
Shallots (planting next month)
I'm not a big fan of cabbage, but I would like to start growing some Tuscan Kale for winter.
RE: Top 10 or 12 - Veggie - 22-01-2023
I grow mangetout, rather than peas, as you can eat them at all stages, whether they've formed peas or not. I've tried eating normal peapods but they have a thick membrane inside the pod that spoils it a bit!..............Don't mention peapod wine - tried that too.
RE: Top 10 or 12 - SarrissUK - 22-01-2023
Cucumber, french beans, runner beans (I've learnt to love them!), spring onion, tomatoes, sweet peppers (Shishito), summer squash/tromboncino, pumpkin, mangetout and kale are my die hard ten.
Sweetcorn, garlic, onion, potatoes, lettuce/salad leaves, peas, carrots, beetroot etc... they're all secondary.