What will you NOT be growing again next year? (or maybe ever again)?
For me it’s watermelon radishes (stole so much real estate from my beloved French radishes and amounted to nothing) and ANYTHING that’s susceptible to powdery mildew. Please share your traumatizing fails.
Eggplant. Tried for 2 years. The plants flowered, but never produced. And they attracted aphids.
RainbowBrite1122
Chick peas. I can’t keep the bud worms off them.
fromhereagain
Tomatoes, except for my 2 favs, Yellow Pear and Garden Peach. I thought I was feeding 4 people, so I also grew Early Girl, Red Cherry, and Sungold Cherry. But no one is eating tomatoes except me… So I’ve frozen over 150 ounces of tomatoe puree to cook into sauces and soups once the weather cools down enough to cook 😅
PasgettiMonster
Next time let the radish plants that don’t “radish” bolt and put out seed pods – one plant will produce hundreds of not thousands of seed pods that taste like radish.
hopefullycynical88
Corn… until I have more space. First year only had 6 plants grow, then when almost ready to harvest raccoons ate all of them. This year I bought a little greenhouse to protect them and they still got to 3 of them, then the ones that did grow most didnt pollinate fully and only grew very small… but the 3 bites I have gotten were delicious 😆
SunShine365-
Carrots are so hit and miss for me. I’ll get them at the farmer’s market next year.
BoldBoimlerIsMyHero
Broccoli. Those little aphids are disgusting.
an00j
Unpopular opinion from my first year gardening. I don’t think I’ll stop growing anything except maybe melons or pumpkins/squash that take up too much space for the flavor/yield.
If I have crops that are too challenging to due to pests/conditions, I’ll just sow more seeds in more parts of the garden and learn from the process.
Independent-Ant8243
The greens are delicious in wraps!
Telandry24
I don’t think I would grow cucamelon or okra again. The okra flowers more than it produces fruit. The cucamelon grew like wildfire – all up and down the side of my house and my neighbors on both sides😂🤣😆I lost complete control 🙃
denvergardener
We’re giving up on okra.
3 years and the plants hardly did anything. This year we finally got some but they’re almost all woody when we pick them.
nantaise
Cilantro. If you look away for three seconds, it bolts. I’m over it.
solarblack
Beetroots and Jicama. Both great plants and grow well where I am but I have far too many jars of pickled beetroot already and I need the Jicama bed for other things.
Terrible-Piano-5437
I’m done with zucchini, I had decent results but I don’t find it worth the real estate.
Loracfro
Kale. I don’t like kale, idk what I was thinking.
GetItM0m
Cherry tomatoes 🫣. I love sungolds but I’m the only one in my household that eats raw tomatoes. I always end up with more than I can handle. I’ll focus on San Marzano for preserving and a single stem of Black krim for BLTs 🤣
BourbonMom24
Indeterminate tomatoes. With the only exception being pink brandywine, that will have my heart forever, I would design my whole garden around that variety. But I’ve got three different plants that are at least 7’ and tomato production really didn’t start until they got to 5.5’-6.0’ making them incredibly top heavy. I’ve rigged the “cages” connecting them with rope to tent stakes just trying to keep everything upright. And I don’t even know if what’s exploded will have enough time to fully mature before the first frost.
Xiakit
Cut lettuce and spinach
I always wait for them to be “done” and the forget to harvest
Back_Alley420
They were a disappointment for me too! They grew to size but the outer rind was tough and the inner was pretty but not worth three months of grow time
olivemor
Edamame. Squirrels eat it all before me. Sad.
dixontide23
probably broccoli or any brassica. my broccoli got completely demolished by cabbage worms, didn’t matter what i did. that was a bit rough on me for my first year growing, but everything else has kept going fine so i’m over that.
edit: pumpkin will also be iffy. i tried a jack-o’-lantern pumpkin plant this year. it grew well, though i was late, it did produce 6-7 small pumpkins, hardly big enough to carve. but i may go for a small area variety like jack be little, sparks, or any other variety that is small enough that i can trellis them instead of having them sprawl for 15 feet. i don’t have the space for that again😅
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Potatoes: to much space for the harvest I get.
Eggplant. Tried for 2 years. The plants flowered, but never produced. And they attracted aphids.
Chick peas. I can’t keep the bud worms off them.
Tomatoes, except for my 2 favs, Yellow Pear and Garden Peach. I thought I was feeding 4 people, so I also grew Early Girl, Red Cherry, and Sungold Cherry. But no one is eating tomatoes except me… So I’ve frozen over 150 ounces of tomatoe puree to cook into sauces and soups once the weather cools down enough to cook 😅
Next time let the radish plants that don’t “radish” bolt and put out seed pods – one plant will produce hundreds of not thousands of seed pods that taste like radish.
Corn… until I have more space. First year only had 6 plants grow, then when almost ready to harvest raccoons ate all of them. This year I bought a little greenhouse to protect them and they still got to 3 of them, then the ones that did grow most didnt pollinate fully and only grew very small… but the 3 bites I have gotten were delicious 😆
Carrots are so hit and miss for me. I’ll get them at the farmer’s market next year.
Broccoli. Those little aphids are disgusting.
Unpopular opinion from my first year gardening. I don’t think I’ll stop growing anything except maybe melons or pumpkins/squash that take up too much space for the flavor/yield.
If I have crops that are too challenging to due to pests/conditions, I’ll just sow more seeds in more parts of the garden and learn from the process.
The greens are delicious in wraps!
I don’t think I would grow cucamelon or okra again. The okra flowers more than it produces fruit. The cucamelon grew like wildfire – all up and down the side of my house and my neighbors on both sides😂🤣😆I lost complete control 🙃
We’re giving up on okra.
3 years and the plants hardly did anything. This year we finally got some but they’re almost all woody when we pick them.
Cilantro. If you look away for three seconds, it bolts. I’m over it.
Beetroots and Jicama. Both great plants and grow well where I am but I have far too many jars of pickled beetroot already and I need the Jicama bed for other things.
I’m done with zucchini, I had decent results but I don’t find it worth the real estate.
Kale. I don’t like kale, idk what I was thinking.
Cherry tomatoes 🫣. I love sungolds but I’m the only one in my household that eats raw tomatoes. I always end up with more than I can handle. I’ll focus on San Marzano for preserving and a single stem of Black krim for BLTs 🤣
Indeterminate tomatoes. With the only exception being pink brandywine, that will have my heart forever, I would design my whole garden around that variety. But I’ve got three different plants that are at least 7’ and tomato production really didn’t start until they got to 5.5’-6.0’ making them incredibly top heavy. I’ve rigged the “cages” connecting them with rope to tent stakes just trying to keep everything upright. And I don’t even know if what’s exploded will have enough time to fully mature before the first frost.
Cut lettuce and spinach
I always wait for them to be “done” and the forget to harvest
They were a disappointment for me too! They grew to size but the outer rind was tough and the inner was pretty but not worth three months of grow time
Edamame. Squirrels eat it all before me. Sad.
probably broccoli or any brassica. my broccoli got completely demolished by cabbage worms, didn’t matter what i did. that was a bit rough on me for my first year growing, but everything else has kept going fine so i’m over that.
edit: pumpkin will also be iffy. i tried a jack-o’-lantern pumpkin plant this year. it grew well, though i was late, it did produce 6-7 small pumpkins, hardly big enough to carve. but i may go for a small area variety like jack be little, sparks, or any other variety that is small enough that i can trellis them instead of having them sprawl for 15 feet. i don’t have the space for that again😅