What are you going to grow next year? Seed catalogue excitement :)

[HappyThursdays]

Have spent all afternoon browsing Suttons seed catalogue

Had huge success this year with Dahlias, heather, ox-eye daisies (we did a meadow patch), peppers, carrots, pumpkin, courgettes, parsnips, beetroot

Less success with broad beans (complete failure due to aphids), peas (just barely produced), potatoes (disappointing), tomatoes (great when they came but so late!)

New stuff I'm thinking of growing that I haven't before
(Fruit and veg)
Patty pans
Apricots (do they grow in our weather?)
Leeks
Broccoli

Flowers
Lazy eyes Susans
Agapanthus

What do you have your eye on for next year's growing season?

Apricots (do they grow in our weather?) They do, but there's some varieties bred for northern climates, so do your research.

I think next year is mainly going to be about using up my glut of half empty seed packets! But one thing I'm going for is parthogenetic courgettes - I grow in containers in the greenhouse (a slug free environment) and I don't always have a male flower around when a female needs pollinating.

More ground cover... alyssum, phlox.

Lots of lovely flowers... cornflowers, cosmos, nigella, dahlias, scabiosa, clarkia, antirrhum, larkspur...

More climbers... I have a lot of clematis and some climbing roses, but want to do sweet peas, black eyed susan (thunbergia) perhaps some colourful blue or purple morning glories. I don't want a bare spce on any fence or wall next year!

Ah! I meant black eyed susans @Otamot . I wonder what was going through my mind when I said lazy eyed! Climbers are wonderful aren't they, so satisfying.

@MereDintofPandiculation that's a good idea with the courgettes. I couldn't believe how they just kept producing fruit this year. I wonder if the weather just happened to be perfect for them. Will research the apricots - thanks for the tip!

I had a really good courgette and tomato season this year, so I'll be growing those again. None of my patty pans produced, was very dissapointed.

I wonder why that was @rorosemary . I love the taste of them

Just planted a bare root hazel nut tree so excited to see how that does next year.

I've been wanting to grow rhubarb for a while now too so may try that next year. And maybe some climbing beans up a wigwam.

Flowers wise, looking forward to the rose Gertrude Jekyll.

GJ is a beauty.

I'm a 2020 novice, but I'm all in and see what sticks for 2021.

I've already got seeds / etc for

• Cucumbers, cucamelons and chillis in containers on my sun trap patio
• garlic in a patch of really poorly drained soil so we'll see if that survives - it's starting to come up already
• loads of bulbs planted last week, some of which are going to be rubbish on my alkaline soil but some of which (alliums) should be great
• edamame (DCs favourite)
• pumpkins (but fewer than the six vines I had this year! Bit bored of eating pumpkin every day with three more to get through still.)
• zinnias, sweet peas, and I've already planted some calendula and honesty.

I've also planted various stuff (edible and not), so will see what survives. Hoping I still have got enough daylight hours at home post COVID to enjoy it.