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Vanessa

Joined: 08 May 2006
Posts: 8324

Posted: Mon Mar 22, 10 9:26 pm Post subject:
I love trying new things ... but this year, I'll settle for growing the "ordinary" stuff.

maryf

Joined: 25 Oct 2009
Posts: 341
Location: suffolk

Posted: Mon Mar 22, 10 11:30 pm Post subject:
Cardoons as a new to me!

nettie

Joined: 02 Dec 2004
Posts: 5888
Location: Suffolk

Posted: Tue Mar 23, 10 1:22 am Post subject:
Salsify and scorzonera here, just a short row of each as I suspect OH won't like it. Am doing Jerusalem fartychokes (thanks Cab) and globe artichokes. Also having a proper pop at aubergines - I grew one plant, once, and its' solitary flower fell off. Oh and how could i forget, I've just planted a mini orchard, although I won't see much in the way of a harvest for a couple of years!!

robkb

Joined: 29 May 2009
Posts: 4205
Location: SE London

Posted: Tue Mar 23, 10 8:33 am Post subject:
I'm trying salsify and scozonera too, and have also got some sea kale seeds to sow. Plus I'm trying some tomatoes I've never grown before, and I'd like to grow more herbs as they're a bit of a blind spot for me. Cheers, Rob.

***merlin***

Joined: 09 Aug 2009
Posts: 112

Posted: Tue Mar 23, 10 10:48 am Post subject:
well this years "new" for me is loofahs perhaps a bit ambitious with no greenhouse but will give it a go but i use so many in soaps i want to try as they can be expensive also concentrating more on chillies after last years disasterous attempts mustard greens also in my seed box, they just appeared there so i may as well give them a go too

lettucewoman

Joined: 26 Sep 2006
Posts: 7834
Location: Tiptoe in the Forest!!

Posted: Tue Mar 23, 10 10:54 am Post subject:
I am growing black salsify but now I want to try scorzonera! Mind you its the only thing that hasn't come up in the seed trays yet...OH is trying cucumber for the first time

AnneandMike

Joined: 21 Jun 2006
Posts: 890
Location: Over the hill and soon to be far away

Posted: Tue Mar 23, 10 8:21 pm Post subject:
I grew both salsify and scorzonera last year for the first time. I am not doing it again. The main problem is we have heavy clay soil and cleaning the roots was a real pain and what you got in the end was not very much produce which did not really taste different at all. However, give it a go but don't waste too much space on them first time.

madcat

Joined: 24 May 2008
Posts: 1265
Location: worcester

Posted: Wed Mar 24, 10 8:27 pm Post subject:
Welsh onions

ros

Joined: 19 Jul 2005
Posts: 2469
Location: Beds

Posted: Thu Mar 25, 10 8:34 am Post subject:
has anyone ever heard of or grown "everlasting" cauliflower? I saw an add for it somewhere yesterday and wondered about trying it

Green Rosie

Joined: 13 May 2007
Posts: 10498
Location: Calvados, France

Posted: Thu Mar 25, 10 8:55 am Post subject:
I've grown salsify but found it bland - the pigs liked it though Okra is my newbie for this year

beean

Joined: 04 Jun 2009
Posts: 254

Posted: Thu Mar 25, 10 9:00 am Post subject:
Asparagus peas are my new thing this year. Last years was Achocha, which was very easy, very productive, but revolting.. think of the bitterness that overcooked green peppers have.... am sure a lot of little-grown veg are little-grown for a reason!

Mary-Jane

Joined: 13 Jan 2005
Posts: 18397
Location: The Fishing Strumpet is from Ceredigion in West Wales

Posted: Thu Mar 25, 10 9:00 am Post subject:

cab wrote:

...and a second attempt at yard long beans.

Me too. I got them going last year - but it was too late in the season really so they didn't grow as well as they should have.

Having had a couple years off growing aubergines I'm having another stab. Plus a go (probably completely futile) at okra, with which I have never got past the flowering stage.

Mary-Jane

Joined: 13 Jan 2005
Posts: 18397
Location: The Fishing Strumpet is from Ceredigion in West Wales

Posted: Thu Mar 25, 10 9:02 am Post subject:

beean wrote:

Asparagus peas are my new thing this year.

Last years was Achocha, which was very easy, very productive, but revolting.. think of the bitterness that overcooked green peppers have.... am sure a lot of little-grown veg are little-grown for a reason!

I grew asparagus peas last year, very successfully - but they tasted revolting!

Fee

Joined: 21 Mar 2005
Posts: 15922
Location: Earth

Posted: Thu Mar 25, 10 9:47 am Post subject:
My asparagus peas we grew on the allotment never came to anything, I have a feeling the meeces got to them. I want to try Egyptian walking onions too, must have a search for where to buy them from.

Mary-Jane

Joined: 13 Jan 2005
Posts: 18397
Location: The Fishing Strumpet is from Ceredigion in West Wales

Posted: Thu Mar 25, 10 9:54 am Post subject:

Fee wrote:

Egyptian walking onions

Errrrmmmm...

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