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What will you never grow again?

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karmalady Sat 03-Sept-22 08:23:34

I have gone from allotment to a new house with a small garden and I grow fruit, flowers and veg

I am giving up on brassicas, I only planted one sprout and one purple sprouting this year, under net. They have grown beautifully strong but the cabbage white got in and the slugs and snails attacked. Now the area stinks of cabbage and the plants are full of holes and covered top to bottom with slug, snail and caterpillar poo and I cannot walk past without a swarm of shiny blue flies rising up

Definitely not worth my while any more, I am giving up on brassicas

Jaxjacky Sat 03-Sept-22 11:03:18

Full size cucumbers, too much, mini munch are perfect. Rocket, gets riddled by flea beetles. Coriander, I’m fed up with trying, it bolts every time, great for seeds, but I want leaf.

merlotgran Sat 03-Sept-22 11:23:00

Another thumbs down for Alium triquetrum. I had to dig out loads of it when I moved here last autumn . I bet it will be back next spring.

Chocolatelovinggran Sat 03-Sept-22 12:03:29

Beware the bamboo....

Casdon Sat 03-Sept-22 12:07:37

Carrots, I don’t know why I bothered as they don’t do well, I don’t really like them - but the dog does so he digs them up to eat.
Spanish bluebells, very pretty but thuggish.
Montbretia - the corms are such hard work to dig up as they form deep, thick mats.

BlueBelle Sat 03-Sept-22 13:01:04

Another one who’s not going to try brassica next year even under nets they were eaten to the ground over night
Not so many potatoes ✖️
No brassica✖️Kale and chard seem fine ✔️
Cucumbers in my garden in pots have done well ✔️in the ground at allotment not done well ✖️
Be more clever about staggering the runner beans had a glut all at once too many to eat

My montbretia which I have a lot has done very poorly this year although I ve watered regularly

Elizabeth27 Sat 03-Sept-22 13:04:22

Courgettes, as they take up too much room and do not taste any better than the ones from a supermarket which are cheap and readily available.

Nell8 Sat 03-Sept-22 13:21:49

I was pleased when lily of the valley appeared from next door. This year it took over a shady bed, so I'm afraid it's been hoiked out.
Likewise a passion flower which sent runners out underground. I felt bad about attacking that one given the symbolism of its flowers.

LadyGracie Sat 03-Sept-22 17:06:58

Beetroot - we had only ONE!
Dahlias, they get eaten, we'll stick to geraniums next year.

Germanshepherdsmum Sat 03-Sept-22 17:16:19

After this year’s performance I’m thinking about whether to bother with sweet peas next year.

snowberryZ Sat 03-Sept-22 17:16:32

Peas.
I spent ages putting little support canes in and then netting.
I think we had 1/2 cup of peas all told.
And birds eye petis poi's taste better.

lovebeigecardigans1955 Sat 03-Sept-22 17:16:39

Beautiful violets have taken over my borders, as yet I forgive them. I'll probably never grow lupins again as past efforts have attracted an enormous amount of aphids and I've never successfully grown Michaelmas daisies without them succumbing to mildew.

Fleurpepper Sat 03-Sept-22 17:20:45

Strawberries- just don't want to spend my time fighting slugs and snails. I am replacing them all with raspberries- so easy to grow, no wrries with the above, and no worries about foxes either. Win, win. and I really prefer raspberries.

Witzend Sat 03-Sept-22 17:24:02

J52, during the next month or so we’ll be taking some pretty savage action against our Japanese anemones - they’re encroaching well into the grass.

bridie54 Sat 03-Sept-22 17:38:44

I've enjoyed reading this post. I must admit I don't bother with garden veg now. As others have said the bugs and beasties get to them too easily and I remember once a friend finding a wee caterpillar in her cauliflower at dinner. So embarrassing... I have grown some potatoes in containers this year and I do have strawberries and blueberries in my raised beds. There's nothing like popping out at breakfast and filling your bowl with berries.
I do grow my own tomatoes and peppers in the greenhouse. The home grown taste is so worth it but I'd love to be able to get finer skins. Apparently it's the heat and even tho I've ventilation and open the doors I still get some with chewy skins. Melons and cucumbers just not been a success and the supermarket ones are just fine.
For the Gran who can't grow Ladies Mantle, I wish you stayed near me, I'm forever digging up self seeded seedlings. The same with the Alpine variety. Alstromeria doesn't like my garden yet my 2 sisters have huge clumps of the same plant.

PollyDolly Sat 03-Sept-22 17:46:15

Brussel sprouts - covered in little grey flies.
Montbretia - dread invasive plant!
Garlic -simply not worth the effort!
Purple sprouting broccoli - simply not worth the effort!
Luffah - too much like hard work!
Peppers - prone to infestation by some sort of bug!

Purpledaffodil Sat 03-Sept-22 17:54:54

Wondering if runner beans worth the effort as tiny crop so far. Thought that about tomatoes last year though and they’ve done really well.
Monty Don suggested planting nasturtium seeds in pots for late summer colour. Ha! Who knew they were brassicas and I have few flowers and thousands of cabbage white caterpillars on them. And the birds aren’t interested in them even. No more nasturtiums for me. ?

Mizuna Sat 03-Sept-22 19:04:40

Kale. It gets full of tiny moths which don't harm it but I'm a softie and can't bear washing them all away. I'm really good at growing echiums though (but then who isn't, they grow like weeds, ginormous weeds).

Auntieflo Sat 03-Sept-22 19:27:49

Thugs I have in my garden:-
Japanese Anemones
St.John's Wort
Grape Hyacinth
Stinking Iris ( just dug up

Bears breeches, not too bad at the moment
Alchemilla Mollis. Hoping it will spread just a bit
Nasturtiums, pathetic
Russian Sage. OK

Callistemon21 Sat 03-Sept-22 20:14:42

Japanese Anemones
I'll keep mine in a pot then.

What about Ajuga? When I planted some years ago in a rockery it spread everywhere but, planted in a shady, dry spot, it failed completely.

I pulled it all out but have just been given another Ajuga plant by a very kind old gentleman. Help!

Liz46 Sat 03-Sept-22 20:29:36

Figs. We are in the north west and the summer isn't long enough for them to mature.

Witzend Sat 03-Sept-22 20:35:39

Purpledaffodil, I invariably get black fly on nasturtiums. Not that I’ve planted any for a few years, but the self sown ones keep popping up. They do provide colour until the first frosts, but blackfly spray is def. needed.

M0nica Sat 03-Sept-22 20:37:56

Cauliflowers.

Callistemon21 Sat 03-Sept-22 21:01:47

Witzend

*Purpledaffodil*, I invariably get black fly on nasturtiums. Not that I’ve planted any for a few years, but the self sown ones keep popping up. They do provide colour until the first frosts, but blackfly spray is def. needed.

One year I put nasturtiums seeds in with my hanging baskets. They grew and looked lovely, then I noticed all the caterpillars amongst them.

3dognight Sat 03-Sept-22 21:16:53

This year I struggled to buy and germinate my usual sweetcorn seeds.
In the end I got about 75 plants from three different varieties.

I put them all out on the allotment, watering and feeding as usual, having now eaten a few and found them strange in that some kernels were over ripe and some just right and others under ripe. I now realise they have hybridised, and are almost inedible!

MaizieD Sun 04-Sept-22 08:27:14

Callistemon21

^Japanese Anemones^
I'll keep mine in a pot then.

What about Ajuga? When I planted some years ago in a rockery it spread everywhere but, planted in a shady, dry spot, it failed completely.

I pulled it all out but have just been given another Ajuga plant by a very kind old gentleman. Help!

Ajuga is usually quite obliging. Don't put it anywhere too shady and it should be fine. I find it spreads very easily but as it's shallow rooted it's easy to pull up.

Unlike those pesky Japanese anemones, that I also suffer from.. they're lovely at this time of year but I wish they'd stay put ?