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I grew this for the first time last year. As baby leaves they're a nice addition to a salad. Unfortunately I just found the larger leaves to taste of earth, and the stems left me unimpressed.

I'm trying again this year hoping it's an acquired taste!

Onions and garlic are up, overwintered leeks are coming on a treat, parnsips and spring onions in yesterday. The rest of the plot is covered with clear plastic, which will hopefully warm the soil up and force weeds up, ready for sowing directly in April - I'm planning on celery, celeriac, borlotti b...

I got started on the indoor propagator last week - brussels sprouts and cauliflowers are up already! I've also sown chilli's, aubergine, pepper and tomato in the propagator, and got started on more herbs for the year - rosemary, curly and flat leaf parsley, basil and tarragon. The potato's are chitt...

I'll keep an eye out on here for something, sounds good!

I'm the same as the post above - not much experience, no-one to share it with (the Mrs is an indoors person!) and no idea where to look.

Thanks for the replies, interesting reading. I'll expand on my post seeing as though you've all gone into detail. Failures - Outdoor tomato's - hundreds of flowers, not a single fruit; Courgette - 4 plants rotted as seedlings, 3 more rotted when transplanted, and the one that survived has 3 fingerna...

Now we're coming towards the end of the growing season for the majority of crops, I'd be interested to know how people got on (apologies if this has been done somewhere else!). I consider this year to be my first proper growing year where I planned everything in advance and tried to sow successional...

I've had lots of problems with courgettes this year. Last year I threw them in the ground, not realising each produced several fruits, and was overrun. This year I planned better (supposedly) and all the 4 I started off in a propagator rotted before I could plant out. I grew 4 more - one immediately...

I planted about ten plants - all grew to less than one metre and did nothing else.

In the end I pulled them out and used to space to thin out my brocolli.

Help please! I've been growing spuds for the first time this year. First earlies were fantastic, and seconds are due to be lifted this weekend. However, the main crops look like they have blight - but I'm unsure...?? The leaves appear to be dying, with yellow-ish patches, and the stems/plants are br...

I used my potato compost to pot up a few other bits and bobs, and there's been no problems so far.

I have recently used the onions, and whilst they weren't full size they were perfectly fine to eat.

One tip - don't eat the flowers. I smelt of onion all weekend....

Further to my post above (1/7/11) the new spinach plants are sprouting up. So trial and error would suggest that - 1) Spinach roots don't like being disturbed, so sow them in position; and 2) It grows from seed in the ground both in spring and summer. I find this is the best way of learning, and hop...

I have 3 types on the go - the 'normal' one (used in Italian cooking), Thai basil and red basil. The smell from Thai basil is amazing, and I like using it in Thai omelettes.

I have a contender - kale.

I wandered into Wilkinson's yesterday on my lunch break and saw there was a 75% reduction on a wide variety of seeds (I tend to buy them at the 'end' of the growing season for next year). Anyhow, a 28p packet of kale seeds cost me 7p.