2025 grow list

Now are attentions are firmly on seed sowing and planning. What’s everyone growing this year?
I know we’ve got our tomato grow lists, almost sorted. What about everything else? Anything new? Anything never again? My list is a work in progress.

Beetroot Mangelwurzel in raised bed (I have to put in place ) 
Carrots - variety to be decided (outside fish box)
DFB - last year’s chilli bed - Vermont cranberry, jacobs cattle gold , sonesta
Bush bean yin yang 
Mangetout green beauty  (outside fish box) 
Sprouting broccoli (outside fish box) 
Kale dwarf green curled (outside fish box)
Pumpkin - bath (variety to be decided)
Courgette - bath ( variety to be decided)
Samphire (fish box in tunnel)

Sunflower  (outside everywhere)
Bombay bronze cockscomb. -fish box
Other flowers - all of them (no idea where )

In chilli grow
chocolate habanero 1
Jalapeño 1
Beaver dam 1

Aubergine  1 - ( variety to be decided) tomato bed )

Salad bar
Lettuce
Mixed cut leaves 
Spring onions 

In pots parsley, basil, dill 

Well done SC. My seeds are buried under books and stuff I've sorted from cupboards, so varieties are in limbo but generally there'll be:

Tomatoes
Courgettes
A few CFB and DFB various varieties but Organdi and Atlants are two definites
Sweetcorn - Swift
Cucumbers - Delistar, Beth Alpha & Shintokiwa
Broccoli - Matsuri and / or Apollo and maybe a summer calabrese
Kale - Scotch Dwarf Blue
Onions - some Ailsa Craig have come up. I've yet to sow Bedfordshire Champion new seed
Swiss chard - Fordhook Giant and White Silver
Broad beans - saved
Carrots - who knows, whatever seed comes to hand and germinates. Probably a nantes and a chantenay
Mangetout - Carouby de Mousanne, Bijou if I have seed or Green Beauty maybe even Oregon Sugar Pod.

There will be others that take my fancy come sowing time, I'm sure

Beans (Bush) -Ferrari, Velour, Sonesta, Safari, Delinel (depending on what germinates)
Beetroot - Alto, Boldor, Pablo
Cabbage (Red) - Red Rookie (overwintered)
Calabrese - Aquiles (overwintered), Marathon
Carrot - Speedo, Topweight, Marion, Mercurio, Eskimo
Cauliflower - Orkney (overwintered)
Celery - Octavius, Tango
Chard - Bright Lights
Cucumbers - Party Time
Herbs - Basil (Devotion, Aroma 2), Coriander (Leisure), Parsley (Giant Italian)
Kale - Black Magic
Kohlrabi - Kref, Olivia, Modrava
Lettuce - Mazur, Lollo Rosso, Kyrio, Saxo
Onions (Bulbing) - Fasto, Marco, Redspark, Redlander, Zebrune (depending on what germinates)
Onions (Spring) - Guardsman, White Lisbon
Peppers (Hot) - Jalapeno (Orizaba), Reggae
Peppers (Sweet) - Diablo, Gypsy, Cornitos
Potatoes - undecided, will wait to see what's at the garden centre
Radish - Pink Beauty, Scarlet Globe, Hailstone
Spinach - Lazio, Mikado
Sweetcorn - Swift
Turnip - Tokyo Cross

No idea yet but will include:-
Tomatoes
Cucumber
Courgette
Squash
CFB & DFB
Broad beans _ Aquadulce
Peas - Bijou mangetout & ?
Kale
Lettuce, rocket & other salad leaves.
Onions- Walla walla
Leeks
Cauliflower - perennial & All year round
Cabbage ??

Francis is the potato I will be growing this year. Never heard of it before, it's the first time the garden centre has sold it too, but it sounds quite promising. Probably the biggest seed potatoes I've ever seen, only 8 to a kilogram!

Sorted my list this morning. Things may still change. But at the moment I’m going to attempt this.
Hop
Lettuce red iceberg + others
Aubergine black beauty
Sweet pepper sweet banana
Sweet pepper bullhorn
Chilli jalapeno
Chilli chocolate habanero
Chill beaver dam
Tom pendulina
Tom ananas noir
Tom black icicle
Tom girl girl weird thing
Sweetcorn glass
Samphire
Onion silverskin
Onion red brainswick
Radish
Carrot ( variety undecided )
Beetroot mangelwurzel
Beetroot burpees gold
Squash turks turban
Squash scallop mix
Courgette tromboncino
Courgette all green bush
Broccoli purple sprouting
Broccoli brocoletto
Kale uncle bert's purple
Shetland kale
Bush bean yin yang
Dfb Jacobs cattle gold
Dfb vermont cranberry
Dfb kinghorn wax
Cfb barlotto
Parsley
Basil

And flowers
All wild flowers 20 varieties
All bee seeds 5 varieties
Sweet pea
Sunflower
Drumstick scabious
Saponaria
Rudbeckia cherry brandy
Orlaya
Nasturtium
Mallow all varieties
Larkspur
Honesty
Hollyhock
Helichrysum
Gazania talent
French marigold
Flowering carrot
Sea holly (eryngium)
Echium blue bedder
Echinops
Echinacea bravado
Dill mammoth
Cosmos
Corn cockles
Cornflower
Cleome
Clary blue monday
Celosia all varieties
Calendula
Bells of Ireland
Allium hairy
Snap dragons
Aster all varieties

That should do for a start.

^^^ And you think I'm nuts.
Where's Cha Cha Squash?

^^^ And you think I'm nuts.
Where's Cha Cha Squash?

I might yet swap Turks turban with cha cha .

I thought I was being quite selective with my chooses. Until I saw them written down. Wait till I’ve got my other 2 tunnels & all my raised beds up and running. Then there will be a big list. Or a very short one, that just says, everything