First ever Veg?

[sweetleaf]

Sleepy started me thinking what was your first veg crop?

Mine as Ive said before was Radishes .....I ate them with the soil still on em,(I was 5!) dont like them much now, but still grow them for others

[4pygmies]

Too long ago really but I think it was prolly carrots in my Grandad's garden. I remember laughing for hours at a huge forked carrot I dug out and took back to Nanna for dinner. I have lots of memories of struggling with wheelbarrows and getting covered with muck trying to get celery out etc. I LOVED the heart of celery - the bit you never get now. It's the tastiest bit by far. My OH hates celery with a passion..... . My first flowers were definitely Petunias at about 7. I was sooo thrilled when Grandad said they were the biggest and best looking Petunias he'd ever seen. He died when I was 11 and I still miss him. My Grandad was the nicest,cleverest and most talented man in the world , I've never met anyone since who even comes close.....

[The witch]

Cress probably - grown on damp tissue paper. ;D

[plocket]

Probably cress for me too, and runner beans.

[madonplants]

Cress here too, (at school) but then peas, runner beans and spuds with my dad, if my memory serves me correctly. Oh, in that order too.

Keith

[chickadeedeedee]

First veg? I think radish or lettuce. That was decades ago.

[trunkyjo]

First ever veg, mine are in progress as we speak and today i tasted my first produce ;D a "karina" peapod was screaming out to be eaten, the peas inside were incredibly sweet, delicious. I am also growing 1 x Sprout plant. I planted two rows of Swede although I only have two tiny plants left as something (and we suspect a naughty squirrel who was seen hopping between the fruit and veg patches) - each plant is now incased in a cut up water bottle for protection. A row of spring onion which has done absolutely nothing, a row of carrots of which only one seems to of sprouted - methink the birds ate all me seeds. I have a lovely row of potatos though - Bambino. A row of parsnips but i don't know what a parsnip seedling looks like so can't distinguish between weeds and Parsnip seedlings jeez i really am useless, ummm what else, i have some very nice things growwing in the greenhouse although i did waste ALL my two packets of expensive cucumber seeds with nothing to show for it - combination of to leggy and broke, getting mouldy etc etc etc. I have 6 lovely jubbly toms plants though with flowers on already, i have 4 peppar plants, a chilli plant and lots of "erbs"

[sweetleaf]

A brilliant start TJ!

[4pygmies]

Yep, that sounds like a good array for a first timer. It's brilliant isn't it? Is this in your garden TJ or on an allotment?

[trunkyjo]

Its all in me garden 4P ;D ready made and empty for me the veg bed was ;D