Successes and failures

[onb]

Success

Cabbage
Spuds
Cauli  sort of
Beans runner and Broad
Tomatoes but blight is now setting in
Cucumber/Courgettes
Aubergines
Peppers
Lettuce
Rocket

Fail
Kale sown never seen again
French beans
Onions
Leeks
Purple Broccoli
Spinach



The jury is still out on the beetroot

[toekneep]

I feel a bit fraudulent posting on here as we just had a few pots on the patio but it's a start


Successes

Potatoes
Carrots
Courgettes
Tomatoes

Failures

Lettuce (partial failure, I didn't like it)
Pepper

[onb]

Early spuds were grown in heavy duty pvc sacks.

[Si]

Success:
onions (spring and normal)
radishes
swedes
potatoes
courgettes
chard
peas
broad beans
tomatoes
various salad leafs

Fail:
calibrasie (sp?)    ran to seed straight away
strawberries - only got three off 9 plants

still looking good:
parsnips
sprouts
other beans (French?)
jerry chokes
leeks
cabbage

looking suspect:
caulis
squishes

[rae]

Success:

tomatoes
garlic
herbs
potatoes
courgettes -> marrows
pumpkin (looking good so far)
butternut squash (looking good so far)
asparagus
salad leaves
radishes
broad beans
runner beans
cucumbers
sweet corn (looking good, but the yield isn't great)
leeks
onions
turnips look OK
beetroot - a bit small cos the deer got them, but I got the deer.
plums - completely overwhelmed

Failures:
strawberries
melons
apples - they were crap this year.

[hellymedic]

Successes:
Strawberries
Apples
Plums
Tomatoes
Mirabelles

Flowers

Accidental success: blackberries
Previous accidental success: asparagus
Previous years unrepeated failures
Carrots
Parsnips

[onb]

I didnt put fruit in I suppose I was in a veg frame of mind

We have had some nice raspberries, strawberries red and white currants and gooseberies which we inherited with the garden ,apples very poor again this year pears and blueberries looking good.The black currants disapeared completely.No plums not even blossom cheap trees from Aldi.

[Si]

hang on a minute....having got up and gone outside this morning to find one of the baskes ripped off the wall and the planter knocked over, I'm not so sure that the tomatoes might be that much of a success.   

[Kathy]

Successes

Beans
Raspberries (a second crop is forming)
More Beans
Carrots (first crop last night)
Tomatoes - at least, once they ripen, I'll have lots.
Strawberries (although I was on holiday when they ripened so our house-sitter ate them all).
Loganberries.
Redcurrents (what few the birds left us).

Failures

Radishes (the slugs ate them all).
Honeysuckle - no flowers whatsoever this year.
Peas - I think I've got about a dozen pods in total.


Not sure yet

Beetroot - I've had a few decent ones, but lots of them are sitting weedily, not growing.
Squash - lots of flowers, but no fruit yet.
Potatoes - last month when I investigated they were too small to eat. They might be bigger now.

[DuncanM]

Successes
Raspberries and strawberries

OK
Garlick, french beans

TBD
Onions, leeks

Failures
Broccoli, spinnach, sprouts (all eaten in the cold frame while I wasn't looking).

No time to plant/pick stuff now, so it'll just be about damage control until I can start to dig the thing over.

[juliet]

Successes: raspberries, blackcurrants, blackberries, blueberries, potatoes, think the rhubarb is doing fine as well, courgettes, chard (self-seeded), salad leaves on the balcony, asparagus (though I missed it).

We Shall See: leeks (also self-seeded again.  leeks are great), corn (not v optimistic), squash, tomatoes on the balcony (looking fine but they started late - balcony stays warm for ages, though), latest replant of beans.

Failures: first lot of beans, peas, most of the beans that were planted with the corn, pak choi on the balcony (caterpillar error). 

[Jon P]

Success: radish, spr onions (took 4 months though), lettuce, beetroot, carrots(?), chard, spr cabbage, summer cabbage, runners, courgettes

Indifferent: turnips & German radishes have cropped but the roots are rotting and twisted - club root?, broad beans cropped once and rotted in the wet, overwintered endive and chicory were usable but bolted without hearting up

Failures: tomatoes rotted, peas shrivelled up for no reason

[Si]

........, peas shrivelled up for no reason

well if you find out why then let me know  - mine keep doing that before they are all picked 

[Morrisette]

Only in pots in the Mediterranean style terrace back yard...and I should say so far.....it could still all go wrong....but!

Managed to grow:

Success!
Tomatoes (including 'surprise' tomatoes from seeds in compost)
Baby carrots
Baby snails
Blackberries (finished already, v. early)
Parsley, chives, mint
Baby lettuce

Jury out:
Beetroot (v. small, some have no beets, just lots of leaves)
Garlic (shrivelling occurring...)

FAIL:
Leeks (died)
Onions (spindly, then died)
Sunflowers (attacked by Army of Slime snail explosion)

Not much luck with the alliums....don't know why. They started off growing, got to tall seedling stage, and then passed out. Any ideas?

[nuttycyclist]

I think I am going to declare the lettuce a failure

Lady Lucy Lettuce and her Lovely Ladies

[Bledlow]

Successes:

Pick & go lettuce. Lovely. Temporary lull at the moment.
Coriander - the second wave of plants is now going strong
Tomatoes - now they are, at last, ripening - first one was delicious, & the plants are weighed down by vast numbers.

Failures:
Blackcurrants - because the birds got there first, & ate all the buds.
Strawberries - mostly eaten by assorted fauna. We only got a few.
Parsley - never bloody came up

We need a bigger garden. I don't want to sacrifice all of our little patch of grass & few flowerbeds for more veg., & the window boxes are full.

[marna]

Failures: first lot of beans, peas, most of the beans that were planted with the corn, pak choi on the balcony (caterpillar error). 

Peas were not total fail! I did stuff myself silly on the earlier ones before they collapsed and wilted in the heat, but you were still away adventuring then.

[RJ]

Well, we seem to have had at least a little of everything we put in apart from runner beans.

Not great for spinach, carrots (fly) or peas (mice/birds?).  Salads did OK until they bolted when we were away in July.  Potatoes doing well and we have some bonkers dwarf sunflowers (short, but otherwise huge) half-hiding the compost bin.

OK, considering our scrambled start.  Various catch-crops (chard, mouli) to come, inshallah.

[hellymedic]

Our sunflowers are not dwarf; seneral are over ten feet tall and have yet to flower! The one that has flowered is about 5 feet tall.

[RJ]

French beans a cropping nicely.  At least, the plants that made it are.

[Cyclops]

Successes:

Courgettes, Rhubarb, Broad Beans, Hamburg Parsley, Tondo di Piacenza, Leeks, Asparagus Peas, Potatoes, Rocket, Land Cress

Failures:

Onions, Spring Onions, Kale (technically a success but devoured completely by caterpillars in 2 days!), Cucumbers, Chard, Lettuce

Still trying to make up their minds:

Summer Squash (huge, healthy plants but not a squash in sight)

[hellymedic]

Our sunflowers are not dwarf; seneral are over ten feet tall and have yet to flower! The one that has flowered is about 5 feet tall.

They are now flowering and towering.
Tomatoes are cropping most generously.
Outdoor toms taste lovely: sweet and rich; those in mini-greenhouse taste of nothing.

[Kathy]

Successes

Beans
Raspberries (a second crop is forming)
More Beans
Carrots (first crop last night)
Tomatoes - at least, once they ripen, I'll have lots.
Strawberries (although I was on holiday when they ripened so our house-sitter ate them all).
Loganberries.
Redcurrents (what few the birds left us).

Failures

Radishes (the slugs ate them all).
Honeysuckle - no flowers whatsoever this year.
Peas - I think I've got about a dozen pods in total.


Not sure yet

Beetroot - I've had a few decent ones, but lots of them are sitting weedily, not growing.
Squash - lots of flowers, but no fruit yet.
Potatoes - last month when I investigated they were too small to eat. They might be bigger now.

Update: the potatoes weren't a complete fail, but the pound of potatoes I got as an entire crop didn't really justify carrying two bucketloads of water to the end of the garden every day in summer just for those plants. 

And the squashes still aren't doing anything other than flowers. Not one has set yet. 

[Si]

Pulled my first parsnip of the season.  Very nice it was too, a girth of around 4.5 inches at the top, and a nice taper, being about 14inches in length.

My unknown beans are also ready now 

[nuttycyclist]

I don't think I'm going to get anywhere with the cucumbers.  Looks like the plants have decided that summer is over and the leaves are now fading from green to white and then brown and dead.

Months and months of care and attention, for a few straggly plants that are 9 inches long and gave me some lovely yellow flowers a month or two back.


When I get round to it one evening this week I shall change my watering routine to one of angrily ripping the entire crop of cucmber and lettuces up and dumping them in the compost bin.

WHAT A FRIGGING WASTE OF TIME 


Home grown is a myth.  You lot are pulling my plonker.   I bet your partners really buy it all in the supermarket late at night and smuggle it home where they plant it for you to pretend to harvest.