Topic: reassurance needed

[Tenuse]

I absolutely love something my partner's dad told me. He has had an allotment for a long time and is a great gardener generally.

Somebody asked him why he was such a good gardener. His answer?

"I've killed an awful lot of plants."

Loved it!  ;D

Ten x

[Val]

Just about sums it up , its great to talk to each other about it, it gives you confidence.

[rosebud]

Aqui  If you want to see failure come and look at my tomatoe plants.
never happened to me before. :o
Only things i am really happy about are my fuschias ,and we cant eat those. ???     So chin up girl. cheers Mary.

[growmore]

Sorry Peeps if  i was sounding Flippant i werent being .. :(
I  only grow for table and freezer nowt exoctic..
But I thought if I had just took a lotty over and I had got reading this thread .I would have thought is it worth it ??
So I stuck pics in just to encourage and show You can bring veggie
home and it ain't all disasters..

Good job I garden better than I spell,,,
ps.
I daren't put a pic of my red onions on now >>lol
 

[Chantenay]

All my garlic has decided to be single bulbed and failed to form into cloves.
The Florence fennel is so tiny you need a magnifying glass to see it.
As are the spring onions.
Carrot fly - say no more.
The rabbits guzzled the asparagus peas just as they blossomed.
And they guzzled the swede's - the few that germinated that is.
And talking about germination - where are the parsnips, that's what I want to know???
Chin up lass - at least we are out in the fresh air and have an interest.

[Wicker]

My now almost perpetual failure is spring onions - same this year again very sparse first and second sowings even tried another lot in moduloes but they didn't appear at all so far so a fourth sowing which might be a bit better.....

Beetroot usually fine but this year first sowing very very sparse and only 1" high second sowing 2" high so a third sowing went in today ........

rhubarb very thin and sickly this year - one picking only.....

my carefully sown fancy aquilegias have come to virtually nothing - about six out of two packets and they are failing fast and my salvias the same gone before they flourished ...

strawberries - okaaaaay but not at all what they should have been ....

And I am an old hand at the allotment - but take nothing at all for granted and there's always next year ....

[tim]

Growmore - I think you should be showing that lot off under the "harvested today" slot? This is an agony aunt's column!!

Wicker - sponions - me too. Try covering the modules with fine vermiculite. I find it often gives better results than compost. = Tim