(28-01-2021, 10:04 AM)Small chilli Wrote: So what’s everyone’s gardening plan for this year?
What’s on your grow list? Anything new ?
Doing anything different?

This year my plan is to only have 2 raised beds in action & 2 tunnels (1 of them not full). 
I’m growing 

Runner beans
Dwarf french bean
Scarlets mystery climbing bean mix
Kale 
Red cabbage 
Broccoli 
Courgette 
Tromboncino 
Vegetable spaghetti 
4 tomatoes 
30 Chillies ( varieties, not plants )
4 sweet pepper 
Aubergine Kermit 
Cucumber 
Lettuce 
Salad mixes 
Plus my perennials ( asparagus, rhubarb, fruit & herbs )

A couple of tomatoes, sweet peppers, chillies & Kermit are new to me this year. 

I’m hoping to store a lot more this year, freeze or dried.

(26-02-2021, 08:37 AM)Small chilli Wrote: Well obviously things have changed    . 
I’ll be using all 3 tunnels but none of them will be full.
I’ve added carrots, celery, leeks, Brussel sprouts & garlic to my grow list. 
I’ve increased the number of tomatoes I’m growing.
anyone else been changing / adding things ?

• Some of my garlic has failed (bulbs had gone a bit mouldy in the shed), so I've bought yellow & purple carrots to sow in their place
  
• Added larger cordon tomatoes for sauces and drying
  
• Bought more oriental greens for autumn, as green veggies are a major component of my healthy eating plan
  
• Bought some oca tubers to try, as they're harvested during the darkest days of winter when there's not much else around
  
• I'm going to try squeezing some sweetcorn around the squash, just because I have some seeds!
  
• I want to buy some more flowering annuals, esp trailing varieties, to grow in hanging baskets and in pots on top of water butts
  

(29-01-2021, 05:12 PM)doublyjonah Wrote: It sounds like an absolute bounty but I am still working on getting some of these things to work for me.......also lots of these will be only a couple of plants.

From sets
Onions: Snowball, Stuttgarter, Red Baron (I think...ordered by a friend so I have to double check what we ended up with)
Garlic: Germidour, Messidrome, White giant (I think...same friend!)
Elephant garlic
Maris piper and Charlotte perhaps

From seed - most sown at home and transferred to the plot
Onions: Ailsa Craig
Leek: Lyon 2
PSB
Dwarf curly kale
Red cabbage
Purple topped turnips
Boltardy beetroot
Wanted to buy chard seeds but must control myself...
CFB: Tiger, Kew blue, Scarlet's magical mystery mix
Runners: Mrs Connell's black, Tenderstar
DFB: Vermont Cranberry and Tendergreen
Broad beans: autumn and spring sown Grano Violetto
Peas/mangetout: Oregon sugar pod, Bijou, White crown flowered peas, Calibra
Radish
Mustard and mixed greens
Carrots: Little finger and Royal Chantenay
Parsnip: what's left of the packet my plot neighbor gave me last year. Hoping they won't make quite the same monsters this year. I know germination probably won't be great, so option open to reorder in spring
Squash mixed pack of seeds: whatever is left
Pumpkins: Charmant and Big Max (I love growing pumpkins and want some more, but I am pretty convinced this is impractical!)
Courgette (Really want a trombocino but no room! right?!?!)
Sweetcorn

From seed for the GH
Chillies: Razzamatazz, Beaver Dam, Lemon Drop and probably a few more. Eek. I'm useless at growing chillies. Also have a badly overwintering plant from my garlic friend.....
Peppers: Mini red bell
Watermelon: Sugar babe
Second edit - Some tomatoes of course! TBD

Flowers from seed
Nasturtium
Eryngium
Deliphinium
Larkspur (autumn and spring sown)
Scabious: White, blue, black?!
Lupin (autumn sown)
Marigolds
Calendula
Orlaya
Inevitably some more!

Flowers from bulbs etc
Gladiola
Dahlia
Ranunculus
Daffodils
Hyacinths

Fruit - all already in the ground/established in pots
Blueberries
Blackberries
Blackcurrant
Boysenberries
Red and white currant
Strawberries
Raspberries
Rhubarb - Timperley early and Raspberry red (or something like that!)
Forgot the fruit trees from a couple years back...apple (have had a few in the last couple years), pear (none yet), apricot (not a chance), plum (not yet), and cherries (birds enjoyed the couple that formed)

Third edit! Forgot all about herbs.....basil, mint, chives, parsley, sage, coriander...oh dear.

I'm not secretly living on Monty Don's plot. Where will all of these (and the others I've surely forgotten) go?

(28-01-2021, 02:39 PM)Veggie Wrote: A plan for 2021???? 

Today's version of my plan is:-

Make the GHs work harder - grow crops in 4, not just 2/3.

Grow tomatoes, cucumbers, courgettes, DFB, CFB, RBs and peas.
Trombones and butternut squash.
Leeks and onion sets
Beetroot
Carrots
Play with kales.

Ask me again next week.

(05-03-2021, 11:28 AM)Veggie Wrote: I am NOT growing:-
Parsnips
Swede
Cabbage, Caulis and Sprouts.

I've decided to concentrate on the "easy" veg and stop struggling with the "difficult" veg that take a long time to grow, are also relatively cheap to buy and not my favourite things to eat.