Which fruit and vegetables will you grow again next year?

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whilst it's fresh in my mind, I'm having a think about the fruit/veg I will/wont be growing again next year & I'd love to know what everyone else is planning on doing too!

will grow again:
Beetroot
Peas
Tomatoes (plum this time)
French Beans

won't grow again:
radishes (we don't eat them)
courgettes (I'm bored of them now..)

I can decide about brassicas..they taste amazing fresh out the garden, but most of them got destroyed by caterpillars and flea Beatles, despite being netted!

Dwarf beans, Polka. Very good crop and self supporting so didn't need fifty canes put in. Grown in large container. Will use two big containers next year for more beans.

Am giving up tomatoes, am fed up with varying crop and either splitting or blight. Luckily my cousin grows loads so I can get them from him. Without putting in any effort.

Am thinking now what to grow instead of the tomatoes.

Will grow courgettes & pumpkins, raspberries, green beans, aubergines.

Wont grow tomatoes. So much effort for few returns!.

Shame about your tomatoes! I got loads this year, but I only grew cherries & the skin went a bit tough for my liking. Going to stick with larger plum tomatoes next year and hopefully make sauces.

going to give pumpkins another go next year, as I think the kids would enjoy growing them (did try this year, but they got neglected when we went on holiday 😂).

@Hotafternoon could you grow something like cucumbers to replace your toms?

Broad beans, garlic onions and courgette definitely.

Potatoes, tomatoes and cucumbers but different varieties from the ones I tried this year which have had mixed results (San Marzano tomatoes I’m looking at you…)

Ive got some beetroot and some cabbages in the ground atm which seem to be doing okay. Also butternut squash. Jury’s still out on them.

Sweetcorn - never again

It has been a difficult and depressing year this year I have to admit

It's been hopeless this year with next to no rain. Next year tomatoes small, beans defo

Have you tried Sweet Millions tomatoes? We did this year. We had the most amazing yield, from a packet of six seeds I started off on my windowsill in the spring! We also had some other varieties of tomato, but the Sweet Millions (in pots) was a revelation. Nice sweet taste, too.

@TonTonMacoute I'm still waiting on my squash (butterbush) too. I put it in a pot which I think has stunted it, it's just growing one tiny little squash. Going to try again next year, but in the ground.

I tried to grow babycorn this year, but that was a massive fail, I might try normal sweetcorn next year as my son loves it, I'll see how much space I have next year.

French beans, courgettes and rainbow chard! Lettuces in a cold frame earlier in the season.
We have blackberries and apples also growing in the garden.

I’m also not growing tomatoes again and will get mine from ds down the road, who gets loads. His are planted into the ground whereas mine are in grow bags, which may have made the difference.

Cucumbers grown outside were great this year. Runner beans were rubbish.

Autumn raspberries. So reliable and easy.

No but I will look them up! Just San Marzano. Had success but it seemed effortful. To be fair, prob just the drought generally.

Over wintering now:
early cabbage (before the aphids and butterflies)
purple sprouting
spring cauli

Next year:
Mangetout peas
climbing french beans, like dwarf beans but a heavier crop
kale
perpetual spinach
chard
cabbage maybe, got destroyed by pests this year
courgettes because they are really easy
beetroot
lettuce
tomatoes in the green house
leaf salads in the greenhouse

@chirrupybird ooh, mangetout is one I want to try next year too.

are your overwintering brassicas outside? I have some on pots & not sure if I should plant them out or not

Growing again - Mange tout and peas, aubergine, tomatoes, perpetual spinach, garlic kale, various chard, and squash. All of these have been prolific. I am getting some beef tomatoes splitting in the recent weather, but I’ve had so many tomatoes since end of July. Will get my peas and mange tout out under fleece again very early next year as they did really well

Not growing again - my beans were poor, my brassicas have been attacked, and potatoes weren’t a great crop

I'm still picking tomatoes daily, been having to give bags away to neighbours for weeks now - I'll definitely grow them again. Also potatoes, they always do well.

I'll never bother with brassicas again, the cabbage moths always ruin them for me.

Separately, my hazel tree has had a bumper year, I've got about 1500 nuts to start cracking...

My tomatoes did surprsingly well this year, after a late start. I grew mine in raised trugs and had no splitting. Had cherry tom's, moneymaker and plum toms. Im still waiting on my 5 butternut squash to ripen.

Next year im not planting: runner beans (get big and stringy tok quickly)

Next year I want to plant
Tomatoes
potatoes- did well this year
Butternut squash
Onions
Sweetcorn
Cabbage
Leeks
Spring onions
Blueberries (in pots)
Let's hope for plenty of sunshine next summer...without the drought!

My tomatoes did amazingly this year.
I’ll try a different courgette - mine produced one measly courgette this year. Hormonal issues.
chilli’s did well.

We had a mixed year. Excellent potatoes, carrots (although could do with smoother soil), cucumbers and tomatoes, which are still going strong but are now stubbornly green!

Not many strawberries or raspberries or blueberries. Plums all split.

Terrible leaks and onions.

Next year
More potatoes, tomatoes, cucumbers. Also beans and purple sprouting and spinach.

I’ve just treated myself to a ‘what to do each month’ gardening book. Would like to be harvesting something each month if I can get there!

Any tips on tomatoes? I got a very small crop this year, the rest stayed green. Grew in a pop-up greenhouse. The ones that did grow were delicious.

I will be growing beans and salad leaves for definite. And garlic. Haven't tried red onions before but would like to do that too.

I always grow runner beans, tomatoes and courgettes. All grown in big tubs, standing in trays of water, never let them dry out. Add feed to the trays.
Easy and effective.

Apples,pears, cherries, plums blueberry and blackberry, and blackcurrant are ongoing. Poor crops this year because of heatwave (east Sussex) overwintered onions and garlic, have plenty. Potatoes dug early, again because of the weather. I will grow salad crops,dwarf french beans,nicer than runner, and not blighted by blackfly. Grapes are doing well (raspberry red)

This was my best-ever tomato year! I'm in the north-west and often struggle to get them to ripen, whereas we had loads of sun this year and they have been great.
I will grow courgettes again next year (but attempt to remember again that really one plant or at most two is more than enough)
I didn't give my climbing beans enough space this year so they didn't do very well - will try them again next year.
I have the world's largest butternut squash ripening. It is so huge I am worried it will be tasteless, but it looks fantastic so I'll definitely do that again
I try kale every year but no matter how carefully I try to net it the caterpillars get in. It remains to be seen whether I will learn any sort of lesson.
Garlic is good. Aubergines don't do here, and really I knew that but I let myself dream. It's a waste of space though. I'd like to succeed with cucumbers so will try again next year.

I have had no success this year really. I’m very novice. I will be growing carrots, potatoes and tomatoes only, maybe strawberries to try again as this year I got 1 measly strawberry! Not fruit or veg but I’m also going to try to do a couple of really beautiful pots with flowers for my patio.

all advice welcome, I think I had duff soil this year, everything germinated and grew a bit but then fizzled out. No idea why!

At least you'd have had lots of butterflies!

I forgot that my chillis actually burned in the heat in my popup greenhouse this year.

I have a teeny garden and so most stuff is in pots.

Have had two years of great courgettes (Midnight) and marrow (Tiger Cross). I grow them in 15" pots in a mix of compost and bagged farmyard manure aka rocket fuel. Last year my runner beans (huuuge pot) did brilliantly. This year I think I got four beans. I won't grow them next year because they absolutely loathe heat and don't set, and the El Nino is likely to give us another hot one. Or the opposite. Might go for half climbing flat French beans and half runners.

I also tried (as a laugh) to grow Charlotte potatoes in the bags I'd bought the compost and manure in. Apart from where I parked them (where I couldn't water easily when we got the hosepipe ban) they did remarkably well and I know a few more tricks for next time.

I grew cherry tomatoes from saved seed from last year, in any old pots that were still unfilled. I've got loads.

Cucumbers (all-female Carmen, pots inside house) did poorly. I'm not growing that variety again. They were rather useless.

I've got a morello cherry tree which was great (I was having to stick water on it though), pears (Concorde and Comice) not too bad and a blackcurrant (Wellington XXX) which again is in a pot and easyish to keep watered. And my victoria plum fruited for the first time. So fruit did well.

I still miss my allotment (gave up because child...) but I've found it rewarding to grow most of the same stuff in every bit of space I can find.