"Alan Holmes" wrote in message
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"Sacha" wrote in message
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what seeds, plants, bulbs have people ordered for this year? Anything
new
for you? Any new plants you haven't tried before.
For those of you for whom the weather is calm and pleasant - no gloating
please!

Well the weather here is obviously not as bad as your's but still not
pleasant enough to venture out to do some digging, not that I'm able to at
the moment, when I do start it will all be vegetables, have no interest in
flowers at all.

I would not have thought of planting broad beans yet, but I usually get
the times wrong anyway!(:-)

I'll be growing the usual rubbish, potatoes, runner beans, strawberries
and raspberries, tomatoes, sweet corn, leeks and a number of other things
which I cannot bring to mind at the moment.

My wife will do potatoes (like desiree and might try maris piper this year);
she does the digging and likes doing it.
and we will probably do tomatoes in the greenhouse (sungold plus one other).
My wish list for this year is headed by pumpkins. Last year I ended up
growing one plant by accident (meant to do more) and got 2 pumpkins and they
were a revelation. This year I want to grow 3 or 4 plants.
I am also a glutton for fashion whims and now want globe artichokes after
seeing that Carol Klein digging up muddy handfuls and making chips.
Otherwise, every year, I promise I will start Asparagus and never do.
Finally, I want to try peas and or broad beans.
The other new years resolutions, I have forgotten :-)

Des in Dublin



All I can hope for is that the senile decay does not get any worse, it's
quite annoying to get up from the chair and wonder what the hell you have
stood up for!(:-)

Alan