2021 plan

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.

I shall be growing the usual suspects

Cabbage x 3 varieties
Onions x 150
Shallots x 2 varieties
Parsnips
Carrots
Runner beans
French beans
Beetroot
Cauliflower x 3 varieties
Kale
Crown Prince squash
Assorted soft fruits
Bulb Fennel ( fingers crossed)
Leeks
First earlies

Here goes with  my list which could change slightly

100 Japanese onions red & white (already in the ground)
50 CenturianF1 onion sets
80 Sturon Onion Sets
40 Large leeks (already potted from leek grass)
Red Onions (Tropea Rossa Lunga) from seed
Calabrese
Curly Kale 
Brussel sprouts
Purple sprouting broccoli
Carrots maicrop
Carrots early
Parsnips
Courgettes
Squash
Cucumbers
Beetroot
French beans 
Garlic & Elephant garlic (already planted)
Spring cabbage
Sweetheart cabbage
Runner beans (for seed only)
Sweetcorn
Turnips
Swedes
Dahlias
Gerbera
Limanthes  (for colour and green manure)
Celery Green Soup
Phacelia Campanuiaria (colour and green manure)
Early potatoes (Charlotte)
Second early (Elfe & Kestrel)

In Green house:-

Tomato Heinz X 2
Tomato Craigella X 2
Tomato Black Russian X 2
Tomato Yellow X 2
CHilli Habanero
Chilli Jalapeno
Chilli Trinidad perfume
Dwarf Cape Gooseberry
Gerbera
Early French beans

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.

Hmm, I've been looking through my seeds...

I've pulled out several chillie seeds and they are on the side staring at me...should I shouldn't I?
Marlene Rocoto - germinated

I've already put some kale in - I don't think I'll do chard this year.
Just kale - Nero
Tomatoes - probably about 6-10 varieties..I keep adding some. Garden Pearl and a few of VCs rambling redstripe are already up.
Cucumber
Courgette
Radish
Lots of lettuce
Several beans - one early dwarf- the rest climbing
Tree spinach
Beetroot - hopefully lots!
Giant garlic is in.

Flowers
Autumn sown
Larkspur
Cornflower - black and pink
Sweetpeas - sown September and end Dec
Lichnis - white and pink
Snapdragons
Penstemon twizzle
Orlaya
Black and white scabious
Thalictrum- Alba
Foxgloves
Knautia - black and pastels
Clary Sage

January Sown -
Salvia Nemorosa- germinated
Echinacea- germinated
Scented pelargonium-some germinated
Species Pelargonium- some germinated
Eringium P - germinated
Scabious Stellata




Lobelia Tupa- no sign


* a dahlia tuber I know I shouldn't have!
It's just started ...I'm going to try some early cuttings.

I know I'm nuts - boredom had sent in. I'm not even inspired to do any craft stuff.

#30th January
Salvia Nemorosa- Rose Queen
Salvia Superba - Rose Queen
Verbena Hastata - pink Hastata ( all xmas present seeds! So a few similar to TMTT seeds but I'm sowing everything)
Duchess series asters - Corel rose
Echinacea - pink.

A change to mine already and it hasn't even been a day. Seed tatties were 3 packs for a fiver in B&M so I now have Charlotte (which I had,) but Desiree and Maris peer to go with them instead of Elfe and Kestrel.

Here's my plan.
I move brassicas and parsnips to a different bed then fill gaps with everything else.

GH
Black cherry
San Marzano
Cucs. and maybe aubergine

Bed 1
Courgettes
Lettuce
Chard
Parsnips

Bed 2
Kale
Sprouts
Cabbage
turnip

Bed 3
Tall peas
French beans
more lettuce
spring onions

Behind Garage
Runners,
tall french beans
JA's
potatoes in tubs
carrots in buckets

Fruit
Raspberries
blackberries
rhubarb
a couple of apple trees.

herbs in pots

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?

Spuds have arrived:
Swift
Pentland Javelin
Charlotte
Setanta (I've not grown these ones before)

Also waiting on some Desiree, my mother in law's favourite. Aiming to make a start with some seed sowing beginning of Feb too. (Toms, chillies and onions)

Spuds have arrived:
Swift
Pentland Javelin
Charlotte
Setanta (I've not grown these ones before)

Also waiting on some Desiree, my mother in law's favourite. Aiming to make a start with some seed sowing beginning of Feb too. (Toms, chillies and onions)

It's February,well nearly  I didn't think a few days would make much difference. I feel so much better. 2 full propagators, a windowsill and two chairs with pots on in the window.