What will you never grow again?

Roses because I don't like the standard varieties and the climbing ones are just a possum banquet.

Chop suey greens because they taste awful.

No more lemon cucumbers - tasteless and pointless
Brassicas - a magnet for every blasted bug out there
Carrots - riddled with wormy things

Apart from tomatoes in the greenhouse I’m probably not going to bother with any vegetables again. I’ve pulled out the raspberry canes (half a dozen raspberries from 6 canes 🙄), blackcurrants did zilch.

shallots, after growing them very successfully for many years I have no-where cool enough to store them here and I was going to put some in the ground but they have all gone rotten. Sigh. I liked growing my shallots. I could grow and freeze but not worth the effort any more

I took my brassica cage off too early and my 2 plants were soon covered in snails and big fat caterpillars. All removed as well as leaves. The sprouts and purple sprouting shoots all intensively sprayed with veggie wash in water, now looking clean and bare. I will be able to rescue something from these two plants

If purple sprouting does well wrt food, then I may grow the one plant with plenty of room under a layer of butterfly net or scaffold netting, bearing in mind that scaffold netting keeps out some light

Instead of shallots, I will grow carrots

Farmor15

Jerusalem artichokes - the most windy vegetable I ever ate!
Also aubergines - we have a polytunnel and tomatoes, peppers etc do well but only ever got one aubergine despite trying a number of years.

Mine are just about ready. The key is to add some sodium bicarb to the boiling water = no wind.

Strawberries just get eaten by slugs and birds- and always a worry about foxes. So sticking to lots of raspberries instead.

Squash, Pumpkins, Carrots, Broccoli, anything that need spraying, de bugging, babying,

asparagus, silly `mistake` I bought two packs and planted 10 into 3 raised beds. I grew them for two full years and the bumble bees loved them so I ignored that they looked overpowering in my small garden

I have had buyers remorse and need to move some more misplaced roses and 3 blackcurrants, so thought I would start emptying the asparagus beds. It took me hours to just empty one bed, the roots are thick and long and deep and everywhere.

My work tomorrow is to empty the other two beds, I don`t like asparagus enough for any to dominate my garden. I had no idea that they are such `in your face` plants

MerylStreep

Angel wings. My daughter bought me one last Friday.
This is what it looked like in the Garden centre. Mine doesn’t look too well.

Hi MerylStreep Angel wings likes to be dry and protected from heavy rain. Maybe it hasn't enjoyed the weather recently? It's a relative of ragwort so should be tough you'd think, but apparently not.
Hope it recovers.

I’m not growing vegetables again and have incorporated that area into the lawn. Our only success was with potatoes and onions, both of which I can buy cheaply. Everything else was eaten by birds, slugs, caterpillars or just rotted away in the soil. I once had a small cauliflower - must have been worth twenty quid for all the time and effort it cost to grow it.

Thanks karmalady, sorting out similar will now be one of my projects for the winter.

Angel wings. My daughter bought me one last Friday.
This is what it looked like in the Garden centre. Mine doesn’t look too well.

Younger. Have tried. Doesn't work.

Sweet peas, this year they didn’t flower as well and went yellow and straggly very quickly, plus I just don’t have time to pull off the little shoots. I’m putting runner beans in next year instead.

Any self watering trough would work, you can get different qualities, depends on the budget. Amazon is where I got mine, pricey but will last for many years and look nice and were 2 troughs within the large trough

The tiered stands were from wayfair and again are different prices, I paid more as I can paint them with hammerite if needed and they will last a very long time as they are not flimsy

The plants are available in garden centres, names such as tuscana, summer breeze, gasana, tarpan. I did get plugs from ebay and they are fab, now potted on into final larger pots in JI number 2. Garden centre plants should have pots filled with roots and they could be subdivided

karmalady

I don`t do photos but the stands are tiered, black painted iron with a few swirls on the 4 legs. The troughs are a dark brown plastic basketweave and that holds the water. Inside each trough are two small troughs with hollow legs which contain a gravel-like substrate and through which the plant`s water roots can search for water

Each tier holds one of the large brown troughs so what I see is tier upon tier of strawberry plants with pink and red flowers standing proud and sprays of heavy strawberries hanging down. It feeds the bees and really is a continuation of my insect-friendly garden, much more than annual flowers

I think I can picture it now, are the troughs like those you buy for tomatoes, with a false bottom which is perforated plastic, with the compost above and the hollow legs sitting on the water/gravel?

Sounds like a perfect way to grow strawberries Karmalady plus I suppose they can be moved around to face the sun?
Did you say where you bought them, if not can I be forward and ask?

I suppose wall baskets would be a good substitute, if the wall is south ish facing.

Yes timetogo2016 ?I immediately thought eyelashes when I first read the title?

I don`t do photos but the stands are tiered, black painted iron with a few swirls on the 4 legs. The troughs are a dark brown plastic basketweave and that holds the water. Inside each trough are two small troughs with hollow legs which contain a gravel-like substrate and through which the plant`s water roots can search for water

Each tier holds one of the large brown troughs so what I see is tier upon tier of strawberry plants with pink and red flowers standing proud and sprays of heavy strawberries hanging down. It feeds the bees and really is a continuation of my insect-friendly garden, much more than annual flowers

A baby.

Callistemon21

MayBee ?

We planted passionflower and honeysuckle against a wall but it grew and strangled our neighbours' plants.

We got rid of it and I planted variegated ivies instead. Mistake! It did the same thing.

Now we have a bare wall.

I like bare walls, especially red brick, or natural stone.
I love it in the winter when the annuals have finished.
It's nice to ring the changes.

Can you post a picture of your strawberry stand karmalady, it’s sounds brilliant, but I can’t picture it in my mind?

I have to recommend basket strawberries in self watering troughs on a stepped stand, 2-3 troughs on a stand here, all in full exposure to the sun. I started with an assortment of 9 plants, divided each year and now have 72 in not very brilliant compost. I am getting a big bowl of luscious strawberries every single day, enough to freeze and eat

I have to renew this autumn and am nurturing 50 new plugs from ebay. They will be ready to put into troughs in november. I have a big task ahead, emptying and washing and filling but then they will be ok for 3-4 years ahead.

The berries mostly hang over the edge and many are large. I bought my stands, black iron, from wayfair and I have 5 as I use them as dividers on my patio and far easier than having annual flowers, which I will never grow again.

I have grown normal straberries for many years but they don`t like it here, whereas these basket strawberries are far far stronger and produce much better

I have re-visited my brassicas, only 2 plants but both are strong and tall in only a 1 x 1m bed. I took the net and cage off, took the fallen and yellowing leaves out and suddenly there is air

Not wanting to waste my organic plants, which are growing alot of veg between them. I have cleaned them up, only found one caterpillar and lots of damage from slugs and whatever has caused the black poo all over

I made a litre at a time of neem/soft soap spray, 5ml neem and 10ml horticultural soap in every litre and I used 5 litres. Blasted as many leaves and as much of the stems as I could. I use a 1 litre birchmeier pressure sprayer. The leaves underneath as much as possible and the white flies dropped in a milky liquid. Now the plants look great and I can keep a better eye on yellow butterfly eggs, to squish but I hope there are no more, depends on the weather

Out of the two plants, the purple sprouting had much less damage and is the one which provides a lot of reward for space, if I do have one plant then it will be that one but the jury is out until harvest

Btw, a have never had a problem with any tight leaved cabbage such as red drummond and minicole, there are many others

I gave so much wild garlic away last year expecting it to still be plentiful but not a sausage this year so got to get some off a friend
Too much honesty if anyone wants any seeds ?

fleurpepper I m totally the opposite my strawberry bed is fantastic but the raspberries are just taking up a lot of space with a small amount of raspberries so I m halving the raspberry bed ( if you want any canes ????)

Dahlias; every one I have tried in my garden has been eaten right down to a skeleton of stems. In pots they are ok, but not outstanding.

Roses; I have one variety, most likely a rugosa that is so prickly and invasive. The white flowers do give nice scent but wilt after one or two days in our damp climate. We would dig it up, but our late dog and cat's ashes were planted at the same time as the bush, so it stays.

I have a few other varieties of small shrub roses that are constantly a battle of the bugs, and the buds tend to rot before they bloom. I think I just need to realize we live in an area too wet for roses.