I'm compiling a list of vegetable varieties that grow well in the area.

Here are some of the ones i've grown sucessfully, with others added as people send them in:

Broad beans - super aquadulce
Leeks - bleu de solaise, jean de poitou (RS)
Runners - Enorma
Achocha - 'fat baby' (RS)
Courgette 'verde di Milano' smallish plants, v.productive(RS)
Tomato - Latah - early, grown outdoors. Matina and Chadwick - really good yields even in the last 3 bad summers and
excellent taste!
''Lldi (huge loads of small yellow fruits that are so
sweet and delicious). That is one I have to grow year after year !''
Chards - various

Peas - Hurst Greenshaft ''good yield, excellent taste''

Claire, I was thinking of trying Latah tomatoes next year, how did you get on with germinating them - did you do them in a greenhouse, and was it heated?

Hi Steve,

I germinated Latah inside, just in pots, no heat. They were quite easy. They make quite short plants, ok flavour, not supersweet but did grow outdoors ok in a sunny spot.

I've had recommendations from another lady in Powys - her favourite tomato variety she grows - ''Ildi -huge loads of small yellow fruits that are so sweet and delicious''.

And another professional grower grows 'Matina and Chadwick' ''really good yields even in the last 3 bad summers and
excellent taste.''

Good luck!
Claire

Last year I grew 5 different types of tomatoes indoors,gardeners delight, llidl, russian black, and a beef tomatoe. swedes, dwarf runner beans, leeks. sprouts, lettuce,(all varities did well red lolla, little gem, onions from seed and sets, seed ones grew best. and garlic all did well every thing apart from tomatoes grow outside.
the fruit did very well raspberries excellent, gooseberrys, and black curants. (sorry have mislaid the names of these)

I also planted a small orchard, with quince, bramley seeding, damson. and as it was there first year did not have ny crops, but a tiny reduced to a £1 crab apple tree with no name on from morrisions produced 8 little apples.