"Broadback" wrote

"Baz" wrote
But costly.
I have worked out that it would be far cheaper to buy from supermarkets.
The seeds cost next to nothing. (well mine do)
It is the manure and fertilisers, labour and pest control that cost the
most imo. Let alone failures.
I am not sure that I will continue growing some of the things I have
grown
in the past.
I will always grow potatoes, tomatoes, peas, broad beans and runner
beans.
They seem to be, for me anyway, reliable every year.

I wonder what others think.


I agree with you Baz, with slight changes. I remove tomatoes because I am
never successful with outdoor ones I remove peas, because of the problem
with supporting them (almost as difficult as supporting my wife). Also I
would add French beans, I grew them for the first time this year, they were
a great success. I also grow a few lettuce and beetroot. That is now my
lot!

We now only grow the blight resistant tomatoes Ferline, Fantasio and the new
cherry type Losetto (amazing cropper no-one would need more than two
plants). They have only got blight in the last few weeks and only today have
I pulled them up because it does not go straight throughout the plant like
normal Toms so you still get a good crop. Even better if you spray with
Bordeaux mixture as then they don't get blight at all.
Peas, we use some old wire fencing we were given to dump by a neighbour,
four old metal posts banged in and run the netting between, easy.

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Regards. Bob Hobden.
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