what do you grow to share ?

[macmac]

Is there anything that if you're honest you grow just to share ?
I always grow basil in the greenhouse border ,I use small amounts but give loads of bunches away with tomatoes,give loads of parsley away, red cabbage which we love in coleslaw and pickled but can't face cooked so give them away.I've got a lovely friend who shares big ones,if I cut one we halve it and vice versa and chillis we grow loads......every visitor we get seems to love them simples...

[oldherbaceous]

Runner beans have to be my biggest thing to share, and of course a few flowers.

[alan refail]

Mainly tomatoes, cucumbers and courgettes, three things that to have enough for the two of us when we want them I grow too many of. Sometimes the odd cabbage when it's clear we won't eat them all. Never potatoes, chilis or green salads.
In fact, it has proved difficult to persuade people to take surplus as a gift. At first people either try to pay for what is, after all, being forced on them, or say "You don't want to go robbing yourself." Telling them it's either they take stuff or it goes straight to the hens or the compost bin usually works
I think the problem is that almost nobody in a village of a 100 houses grows anything edible, so the concept of sharing/giving is a bit hard to understand.

[Johnboy]

Hi Macmac,
The sort of thing that happens here is that I will get a phone call to say
"I'm cooking Beetroot tomorrow do you want a couple?" I do the same.
I live in a very small village but the gardeners of the district try very hard to supply as much produce for the elderly who are unable to grow their own. The funny thing is that most of the gardeners are themselves have gone past their shelf lives. At present there are no young gardeners in the district which is a cause of great concern. I have been growing on my own account since I was 13 but of course then there was no Television or Computers and the only Games in those days were Rugby, Football, Netball and Rounders. I used to listen to the Radio on my Crystal Set. We did not get mains electricity until 1948 and we had the ubiquitos generator so to listen to the radio was classed as too expensive so it was only on when something else was being used. The not so good old days!
JB.

[glallotments]

There's nothing that I grow just to share but as with antone with an allotment we have plenty of stuff that we give away when we have too many.

This year we had loads of strawberries and plums that had be eagerly accepted. Loads for us as well if fact we are still picking. I bet next year we have no plums at all. We even took a large punnet of strawberries to the local radio station and the focus of the radio interview ended up being how much better they were than shop bought ones!!