If you could only grow one vegetable or one fruit...

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What would it be and why? :D
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Assuming that you are retricting us to the species not the variety.

Potatoes.
The number of ways you can cook them, they store so are available all year round, they are possibly the most versatile and filling vegetable you can grow.

Apples.
The incredible variety of types, cookers, eaters, dual purpose, crab.
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Like the pots, but would have to go with

Tomatoes:
Couldn't do 95% of my cooking (mostly italian) without good toms...

Onions:
Ditto...

... and before you start, I'm counting tomatoes as my fruit! :roll:
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New potatoes, preferably International Kidney or Pink Fir apple.

Strawberries. No contest.
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Cherry tomatoes Supersweet 100. Still available from Moles seeds but off National list.
I always say the flavour will 'blow your ears off'
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Tomatoes for me too, Sungold would be my favourite if I had to pick a variety.

It does say one veg OR one fruit you lot... :D
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Ten out of ten for observation Chantal!

Tomatoes for me too.
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A tomato is a fruit that is, largely, treated as a vegetable.

Yes :?:
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Aaaaaarrrgggggggt.


Bloody work PC, keeps guesting me. :oops:
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Beans,Beans,Beans,Beans and more beans.You just can't buy decent beans!!!!!!
Mind you tomatoes come a very close second.
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When I was in the situation where I didn't have an allotment and the garden wasn't suitable for much veg growing the answer was simple - runner beans. Doesn't look out of place, productive over a long period, don't take up too much space and you can't buy them fresh.
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Got to be leeks for me - a couple of leeks and they can be turned into a meal. As for fruit - anything, we eat it all but plums and pears particular favourites.

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I think mine would have to me strawberries-they're just so delicious :P
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Probably blueberries. Delicious and exceptionally good for you!
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Sweetcorn - there is nothing better than home grown, picked and cooked immediately. Totally different vegtable to anything you have bought before in the shops.

Ditto strawberries, especially picked on a warm summer day and scoffed for tea with cream.

mmmmm - making me feel hungry. Roll on summer.

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