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!

I could but I don't like cucumbers 😂

I'll think of something by next year

I grew three squash as an experiment- the one in the growbag had one fruit, as did the large pot, but the one in the ground has 7!

We loved

cabbage
potatoes
tomatoes
lettuce
peppers
onions
garlic

Won't do cauliflower again - they just weren't great.

I'm sick of squash - just froze more soup. So won't do that again.

Everything was a failure this year!! I got blight in my tomatoes and the whole lot went in the bin plus everything else which was in the greenhouse. Possibly an over reaction....

Going to try tomatoes, basil and chives again next year - can I grow in the same greenhouse if I remove all the compost and clean it?

We always do courgettes as they've always been so easy (although we do get completely sick of them).

Tomatoes have been our best ever year - we had some in grow bags in the pop up greenhouse which have been loving cared for by DH and done ok, but then we had a load self seed in our raised planters (seeds must have come from our compost heap which we'd put on the beds). These tomatoes have been amazing.

Dwarf beans failed to launch this year, but we'd had a great crop previous year - I guess the heat got to them.

Then our perrennials - raspberries, great crop this year, globe artichokes, couldn't keep up with them, blueberries, shrivelled up in the heat before we could harvest, rhubarb, excellent whatever the weather and a very, very long harvest period, strawberries, meh. Plus 2 apple trees - one hasn't fruited much at all this year for the first time, and 3 crabapple trees which are annoying more than anything - I never know what to do with them.

Bush cherry tomatoes great this year, in pots south facing patio. Just plant in compost and water. Couldn't be easier. Still picking.. Yorkshire.

Fantastic hazel nut crop. As usual the squirrels ate them.

First year with a veg patch (shared an allotment years ago, but didn't do a lot due to young DC).

Will grow again:
Salad greens
Tomatoes (a lot of work, and most of them split, but they taste fabulous)
Runner beans
Leeks - have some ready to over-winter, still quite small as went in late
Cucamelons
Potatoes

Will try pumpkins again even though this year's yield was zero.

Shan't bother with:
Peas
Radishes
Beetroot
I think the problem was the weather, but I don't think I'll be able to raise the enthusiasm

Want to try
French or dwarf beans
Garlic
Carrots

I'm definitely growing tomatoes and cucumbers again, they always do well although this year were a bit less good than usual. I'll probably also do chillies and courgette (had two courgette plants but they didn't set that well so we had enough but no glut!). Maybe a pumpkin...i think i have kabocha or something that looks similar... it has one big pumpkin looking proud, let's see what it tastes like! Basil also, i split a supermarket plant and it's kept us going all summer... still very productive.

Won't bother with snow peas, they grew well but i much prefer mangetout so will go back to that.

From previous years no to cucamelon or asparagus peas (not tasty but they grew well). Maybe to sweetcorn but I'd need to net them as last time the squirrels ruined them just as they were almost ripe. I might give beetroot a go, although we tend to get a lot of them in our veg box.

Think I need to write down some of the varieties recommended in this thread though!

Tomatoes did ok in the hot summer, but are really thriving now. Chilli's are ready super early this year. I tried growing chickpeas this year and it worked! Interesting to eat the green even if the crop was small.

But most things failed with the lack of water. Not sure I can be bothered with much next year as a result.

MissieGirlie, I recommend Cobra climbing French bean, and Annabel dwarf both good croppers. All my salad and Pak choi went to seed fast, I didn't bother with a late sowing, I usually do. Found the veg plot really depressing, I've got 6 water butts,200 foot of garden, hosepipe ban.We were having showers with the bath plug in and scooping it out to water. I've got a lot of sweets peppers, I forgot about them.I have some chard and spinach growing,I don't find the cabbage whites are interested in the kale,Cavellero Nero. Not sowed that yet,or winter lettuce. I got depressed at the state of the garden, after 2 months with no rain and quite a lot of lovely shrubs have died

Have you tried “tumbling toms”? I grow them in hanging baskets and they go crazy.

Yes I use Jeyes fluid to clean the greenhouse every year.

Not that variety, no I haven't. I grew San Marzano which got the brown end rot and a cherry tomato that turned out to be the biggest cherry tomato I've ever seen, it was huge. Think something went wrong with the name on the label when that one was packed.

I was watering sometimes three times a day at the hottest times but I'm fed up with growing them now so next year I'll try something else and maybe go back to toms the year after.

Well, maybe ... 🙄

I’m in the south east and watered my plot only twice a week, with everything except carrots in the ground. If you’re consistent just with2-3 x a week watering, it’s fine for veg. Just put loads of straw and grass clippings all around the base and over the vegetable beds and it shades the soil and traps in moisture.

January1244,east Sussex,my veg plot was full,so tomatoes had to go in greenhouses,I was watering twice a day..Last year they were in the soil, I don't think I fed or watered at all..

Corn on the cob but need badger proofing! Courgettes, broad beans, beetroot, toms, potatoes, leeks, garlics, onions. Need to get protection around gooseberries and blueberries from birds. Not going to bother with any brassicas, those sodding white butterflies can find my brussels no matter how much netting I cover them with. Oh and NOT jerusalem artichokes although undoubtedly some will pop up where I least expect them. Can’t get rid of them!

Onions, toms

Lettuce (to pull as individual leaves), baby spinach, peas (early crop). Maybe try a fast growing crop of broad beans and some early French beans.

That’s probably about it, TBH, as I have to leave my apartment at the end of July and can’t bring live plants back home with me. And it will be hard to bring any produce either (from mainland EU back to Ireland).

But the following summer…tomatoes, courgettes, french beans, peas, broad beans, salads, chilli’s….and maybe even try some brocolli and Brussels sprouts again.

(I unfortunately don’t have the ground space for onions or potatoes or carrots/parsnips..but I can squeeze in some garlic in the flowerbed).

Definitely will grow courgettes, tomatoes, cucumbers, peas (lots more because I ate them raw in the garden and none made it to the kitchen), French beans and lettuce

I won't bother with brassicas as the caterpillars had the lot.

I didn't grow sweetcorn this year but I will next year. Also going to do broad beans.

I grew the crystal apple cucumbers that have done really well - normally I grow the standard green long ones. these taste so much nicer and I got such a good crop. aubergines for the first time this year - chills did well too. will definitely do those again next year - im in London though. strawberries also did well. beans didnt