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What will you never grow again?

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J52 Sat 03-Sept-22 09:27:12

Broccoli ( I don’t do any other brassicas). Beautiful plants with fab heads, full of black beetle!

Nannytopsy Sat 03-Sept-22 09:08:15

Arum italicum pictum. (The one with variegated leaves.) It is desperately invasive and leaves tiny dark bulbils deep in the soil which are impossible to completely remove. I eventually resorted to black plastic and bark mulch across a whole flower bed.
And brassicas!

Zonne Sat 03-Sept-22 09:07:15

Agree, brassicas are too problematic. Im trying to convince my husband we should stop growing courgettes. I don’t really like them, and even one plant produces too many for just him (in my view, not his. Yet).

grandMattie Sat 03-Sept-22 08:57:31

Any brassica. They attract every cabbage white in the country and are devoured by the caterpillars in no time at all. If you manage to evade that hazard, the result is so pathetic… any, E Kent is the brassica capital of the country and we can get them very cheaply…

Ro60 Sat 03-Sept-22 08:57:01

Carrots never seem to grow for me - even the miniature varieties.
Stinking Iris a friend ? gave me for my new garden years ago - but it spreads too much & a devil to pull up once established. ( glad I've moved house). Same with pampas grass.

Esspee Sat 03-Sept-22 08:49:22

Tomatoes.
Months of loving care, having to have neighbours tend them when away from home, the expense of the best compost and fertiliser then when they are finally ready for picking tomatoes are as cheap as chips in the shops.
OK they do taste so much nicer (especially Gardener’s Delight) but the commitment became too much.

Redhead56 Sat 03-Sept-22 08:47:11

Cucumbers and tomatoes I don’t have success unlike my dad every year his were brilliant.

Oldnproud Sat 03-Sept-22 08:45:51

Melons. I tried growing them for three or four years in a row (using the same packet of seed). In all that time I only got two edible ones, and they were really small!

Onions and garlic, but that's because there is white rot in the soil. My leeks can survive it, but not the onions and garlic.

Jaxjacky Sat 03-Sept-22 08:35:19

I used to think that karmalady until I discovered debris netting, much cheaper than environmesh. The slugs, we use pellets, the ones without metaldehyde, so animal safe.

karmalady Sat 03-Sept-22 08:32:08

also marketmore cucumbers. 4 mini cucs from two plants and I fed and watered them

Abitbarmy Sat 03-Sept-22 08:29:42

Cucamelons! Waste of water, greenhouse space and time. Also most brassicas due to everything that lurks in them despite careful netting.

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