Tried any new varieties this year? Impressed or not?
Thumbs up for me are Lettuce Bronze Arrowhead, Courgette Striata di Napoli both Real Seeds and Cucumber Rocky (great little 3" cues for young ones lunch box).
Thumbs down suprisingly Tomato Costoluto Fiorentino which started really well but after the third truss has sort of petered out and Potato Pentland Javelin which has been pathetic!
What's doing well......?
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Asparagus peas...pretty foliage and red flowers... strange spikey little veg ... one I tried raw and seems that its going to be an aquired taste...I will let you know
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Quite early still up here in Peterborough 
but so far:
Thumbs up: Rocket spud; Mangetout Yellow Sweet (prolific, VERY sweet and tender), Broad Bean Red Epicure (delicious whole or podded), Pole Bean Fagiolo di Spagna - way ahead of all the others and will yield HUGE white beans if the seeds are anything to go by; Scorzonera Giant Russian, growing like topsy.
Thumbs down: Blue Mangetout - pretty, but nothing special; spud Kerr's Pink (small and tasteless); Sweetcorn Swift, has been poor compared to good old Kelvedon Glory.
Have given up on carrots, and sown salsify instead
but so far:
Thumbs up: Rocket spud; Mangetout Yellow Sweet (prolific, VERY sweet and tender), Broad Bean Red Epicure (delicious whole or podded), Pole Bean Fagiolo di Spagna - way ahead of all the others and will yield HUGE white beans if the seeds are anything to go by; Scorzonera Giant Russian, growing like topsy.
Thumbs down: Blue Mangetout - pretty, but nothing special; spud Kerr's Pink (small and tasteless); Sweetcorn Swift, has been poor compared to good old Kelvedon Glory.
Have given up on carrots, and sown salsify instead
Hi Sprout,
Scorzonera, like many vegetable plants, is a true perennial and will flower next year. The flower buds, if picked just as they swell to burst, make wonderful eating with abour 4" of stalk.
Cook like Asparagus and dip into melted butter as you eat them. I doubt that you will get flowers this year and unless they will be horribly in the way leave a couple of plants for next year and I promise you you will not regret it.
Scorzonera, like many vegetable plants, is a true perennial and will flower next year. The flower buds, if picked just as they swell to burst, make wonderful eating with abour 4" of stalk.
Cook like Asparagus and dip into melted butter as you eat them. I doubt that you will get flowers this year and unless they will be horribly in the way leave a couple of plants for next year and I promise you you will not regret it.
JB.
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My cucumbers are fab, 'Petita': I've just picked 13 of them from 2 plants!! Guess what we will be eating for lunch, and dinner, forever!!
In contrast, the Crystal Apple variety is pants. No usuable cucumbers so far, lots of dropped/poorly developed losses.
Tomatoes (greenhouse), 'Sweet Olive' is now up to 9 trusses, first fruits ripening.
'Black Prince' has produced goodly numbers of huge fruits, 'Yellow Siberian' also has a very good yield, 'Elberta Girl' has rather interesting fuzzy toms, but not that many of them. 'Tiger Tom' and 'Roman Speckled' have very attractive stripey fruit too.
One disaster has been the 'Variegated' variety; pretty foliage, but hardly any fruit at all, only two sparse trusses on a plant nearly 6' tall!
Don't know about my aubergines....my greenhouse frog failed to stop a slimey biting right through the stems of my pretty purple aubergine flowers...grrr!
In contrast, the Crystal Apple variety is pants. No usuable cucumbers so far, lots of dropped/poorly developed losses.
Tomatoes (greenhouse), 'Sweet Olive' is now up to 9 trusses, first fruits ripening.
'Black Prince' has produced goodly numbers of huge fruits, 'Yellow Siberian' also has a very good yield, 'Elberta Girl' has rather interesting fuzzy toms, but not that many of them. 'Tiger Tom' and 'Roman Speckled' have very attractive stripey fruit too.
One disaster has been the 'Variegated' variety; pretty foliage, but hardly any fruit at all, only two sparse trusses on a plant nearly 6' tall!
Don't know about my aubergines....my greenhouse frog failed to stop a slimey biting right through the stems of my pretty purple aubergine flowers...grrr!
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Sugar Lord sugar snaps .... but I underestimated their height .. said up to 5 feet ... so sticked accordingly .... way taller than that so a bit floppy ... but hasn't stopped them cropping. Even did the successional thing and sowed a couple of short rows four weeks after the first .... yum yum !