What will you NOT be growing again?

[daylilydude]

Just curious if you've tried things in the past that you have given up on entirely?

[coppice]

I've given up on iceberg lettuce. In new england its very timing and seasonaly dependent to not bolt. Leaf lettuce sure. iceberg no.

Celery has I suspect really tiny feet. I almost never get beds ready for it, with good access to water. IMO ya gotta have a very fertile bed and water to make celery work. By the time I've had bed space ready to try, it was time to move, again...

[paulf]

Sweet corn takes up too much room in our smallish garden. Around here during sweet corn season we usually have our pick of 5 or 6 different varieties being sold out the back of pickups within a couple of miles. We let someone else do the work for $2/dozen.

I have loved growing melons in the past, mostly heirlooms. But again for space reasons they are gone. Besides there is a commercial melon grower about 15 miles from us who grows the best tasting melons (three different watermelons, several types of muskmelons and several squashes and pumpkins). I will miss the watermelon, so maybe it will be back some year.

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Tomatoes! None for me.

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Kolrabi___they grew beautiful, the white and the purple, but I just didn't like the taste of them..maybe I let them grow to long, they were the size of softballs,,,,,,,,

[Trudi]

Quinoa.

Basically, it's Lamb's Quarters on steroids. Horrendous reseeder. Horrendous. HORRENDOUS RESEEDER.

[stratcat]

Jan 3, 2011 18:04:03 GMT -5 @mvnewf said:

Kolrabi___they grew beautiful, the white and the purple, but I just didn't like the taste of them..maybe I let them grow to long, they were the size of softballs,,,,,,,,

They can get woody if grown too large or kept too long, like this one in the icebox today. He's growing a new shoot!

[Trudi]

I bet you can plant that and it will set seed this spring.

[bluelacedredhead]

It looks more like a purple sweet potato than a Kohlrabi, lol

But yeah a little smaller than that, sliced up raw and eaten with dip...I haven't grown kohlrabit for in 20 years. Going to put in a few plants in 2011.

What don't I grow? Usually don't bother planting beets. I only eat them pickled. Not a fan of Borscht and neither of us eat beet greens. One of the grocery chains here always has a 10 lb bag o'beets for $2 in October and that supplies us with enough pickled beets for the year.

[sorellina]

Ciao all-

Heading brassicas. I don't have any success growing them at all. Leafy ones do fine, pak chois do fine, but broccolis, cauliflowers, brussels sprouts..too frustrating and they're cheap enough in the market.

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I won't be growing kiwi. I love kiwi but getting the male and female started os a trick. But once they get going it is a weed! I am surprised kiwi has not taken over the world.

[Deleted]

I'm with the previous poster about kohlrabi. This was my first year growing it, and it grew really well. I picked it small to avoid it being woody, but I still didn't like the taste of it. I ended up pulling up the rest of the plants and just discarding them.

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I am not growing zucchini anymore. We just don't eat it. It will also cross with another pepo squash and I want to grow 'sweet dumpling' without having to worry about cross pollination.

[littleminnie]

Cauliflowers are a pain! The only ones that do okay are hybrids grafitti and cheddar but cheddar is a Monsanto variety now. I hate cauliflower! I tried Romanesco too but it is early September and no heads are forming. I grew some purple Italian OP variety this year and a couple made little shoots of heads.

Also can't grow orach or epazote , or dill from seed for that matter. Dill and cilantro have been buggers the last 2 years. No one has had dill. I used to have tons and cut it all once and sold it at the supermarket and now have no dill.

Sweet corn isn't worth growing without a tractor IMO. I broke a hoe and almost broke my back growing sweet corn in 2008. I grew it again last year (still didn't have a seeder yet!) and got some but also had some bad germination, weeds and wind storms. I recommend soaking the seed if you can.

I don't want to grow squash anymore since I am allergic to the plants. You can't not touch the squash plants!

I don't bother with Brussel sprouts anymore either. What a waste of time and space for not much. People don't buy them at market and the price for all that time in the garden would be too high!

I hate celery! Hate cilantro too- even the smell but people need that stuff and I try to provide.

Swiss chard and arugula stink to me. I stopped growing them but I have added back broccoli rabe and kale.

There are a few tomato varieties I have had it with! God I hope I have a better tomato year next year.

In fact, there are so many things I would not grow if I grew just for myself again! I would only grow a few tomatoes, cucs, carrots, parsnip, ruties, peppers, napa cabbage, broccoli, spinach, lettuce, beans, peas, taters, onions, garlic, sweet potatoes, leeks, shallots, scallions.

[redneckplanter]

cushaws.....lol jest kidding.

[littleminnie]

Yeah cushaws are actually on my never grow again list.

I am preparing a list of possible crops for CSA members to be able to ask for me to grow. I cut out a lot of stuff and would grow way less things just for me! But they may want arugula, brussel sprouts, tomatillos, etc.

[joseph]

No mixta squash for me either. The seeds I planted this spring haven't even managed to offer a flower yet, and I'm a week or two from my first fall frost. Actually I wouldn't mind finding an early mixta, but this year's seed is definitely not the way to go.

There is no sense in fussing with langeneria gourds either. And no luffa's!!!!

I wish that I could say that I'm not growing any more morning glory, or wild amaranth.