Topic: What veg Are you total failure at this season?

[antipodes]

Tomatoes - all got blight
Fennel - I won't try again, it just bolts and bolts and I didn't get one bulb.
Melons - but I will try a friend's suggestion of growing under fleece next year.

Not a brilliant harvest but I got a fair amount of potatoes, onions, shallots, the garlic is small but tasty and the brassica look very promising so far. Excellent fruit harvest too.
There is always next year!!

[Barnowl]

(£4.50 for 5 seeds from Exhibition Seeds as opposed to everywhere else who charges around £8)

Try http://www.plantsofdistinction.co.uk/acatalog/A-Z_of_Vegetables_CUCUMBER.html  6 seeds for £3.50

..but as I mentioned, if you order a lot of seed from T&M (10 packets I think it was) you are allowed to specify a free packet, whatever you like.

I will have another go next year although I'm really pleased with Petita F1 (half sized cukes)


PS Moles Seeds are the cheapest, but have a minimum order of 25 seeds

[cleo]

I made the fatal error of being careless with the fleece over my brassicas-all now just skeletons,but they might grow back.

Melons were a complete failure.

Quite a few folk seem to have trouble with florence fennel-Have you tried the variety `Rudy`-it works for me

[Trevor_D]

Tomatoes!!!!

And peppers - first lot didn't germinate; second lot did, but were eaten by snails; 3rd lot got to the 3" pot stage before they, too, were eaten! Only 1 person on our plot had any spare, and he generously gave me a couple, but by the time they were ready to plant out in the GH I'd run out of potting compost and put my back out so I couldn't lift anything for several weeks. They're still sitting in 4" pots and are unlikely to produce anything, especially as we're now nicely into autumn!

Apart from that, a bumper year for lots of crops. I've even got a good crop of carrots, which are very difficult on our London clay. Mind you, I've only just started lifting the main-crop potatoes as it's so wet, so I expect the slugs are having a field day!

[Barnowl]

Tomatoes!!!!

And peppers ........ They're still sitting in 4" pots and are unlikely to produce anything, especially as we're now nicely into autumn!

Stick them on a windowsill - cut them back to about a 6" stem and pot them on in a month or so when they start to sprout again - chillies for Christmas  :)

[carosanto]

Ho hum, the moment of truth - what was a failure this (my first year)?

Pak Choi  1st planting bolted, second planting eaten by slugs, and third and absolutely last planting taken ages to germinate and now just sitting there.

Winter onions - I'll never bother again, high windy Cornish hillsides don't suit 'em

Organic Butternut Squash  -  germinated 12, gave away 8 (silly me).  two of mine eaten through stem by slugs the other two, lots of growth, no flowers, nada (but courgettes a-plenty)

Beans  -  several kinds, very few flowers, pitiful crop, put it down to weather

Potatoes  -  on the Monday, looking great by the Wednesday blight had got the lot!!!  Urrgg

Outdoor Toms  -  why bother?  They all sulked for ages (weather) then got blighted.

Beetroots - tiny and refusing to grow

Lettuce - unbelievably in all this wet weather they refused to heart.  Still did get some leaves.

Am I downhearted after this appalling wet slug-laden year?  Not likely  - I've already started again (winter cabbage and lettuce) and somebody has given me raspberry canes.  I've even installed a 1000 litre water tank ready for next year's hot summer.  It will all get better ;D ;D

[cornykev]

Melons and pumpkins only a few germinated then died off.       :(
Chinese cabbage bolted as it did two years ago, never again.    >:(
Celery not even worth a mention.      :-X   
Sweet potatoes too much hassle.    ???
Coconuts.    :o

[hopalong]

Butternut squashes. Only managed to get a couple of seeds to germinate. Then, after feeding and nurturing the plants very carefully, only got one decent size squash before the leaves turned yellow and the remaining (small) fruits turned brown.

[labrat]

tomatoes and broccoli, totally rubbish. Runner beans were also very slow due to weather.

[manicscousers]

most things were great, only swede and romanesco broccoli have been a problem, but when we went to the Eden Project, their romanesco has bolted, too  :)

[bedrockdave]

sorry but reading this thread has stopped me from being downhearted ,
 celery ; still only 6ins high and they've had PLENTY of water
 onions, most lost to onionfly (wont use fresh manure again to attract them)
 corgettes, had a few but not many
 sweet potatoe; still only 6-8 ins high. been too cold and wet
 tomatoes ,BLIGHT same as a lot of others
 pepper,stripped by caterpillers while away for 4 days
 squash ;slugs crawl over the pellets put down for them to get at these
 anya potatoes; blight
 also lost a plum tree when full of fruit
 
 other than this  everything else done well, actually had 1 potato today weighing 2lbs  :) Lady Balfour made great chips
 Dave

[tonybloke]

sweetcorn didn't / hasn't performed well this year, prob lack of sunshine, everything else is great, (don't grow things that don't do well) ;)

[Flighty]

Carrots - sowed them late, few appeared. Lettuce - bolted or rotted!
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What about you Nastybritishgardener? You asked the question so how about answering it as well!

[Robert_Brenchley]

Tomatoes. Butternut squash; it got as far as planting out and just sulked. Big Max pumpkin, it's finally got as far as producing a rampant vine but no pumpkins. The ordinary version has only got two among three plants. Trail of Tears beans, they just sulked till the slugs found them.

[Amazin]

What about you Nastybritishgardener? You asked the question so how about answering it as well!

I wouldn't hold your breath, mate - NBG (aka TGG) isn't likely to admit to failure.

 ;D

[saddad]

They are one and the same then Amazin' I had my suspicions....  :-X

[Flighty]

Amazin I'd be surprised if he does!  I'm sure that anyone else would be happy to reply.

[grawrc]

What an interesting thread this has become! Thanks to the nbg for starting it! Looking forward to hearing remedies for all these problems!!

[asbean]

We have to wait for the time difference for him to log on!  I'm certainly not staying up for that, it's been a long day and he's not worth the effort.

Though it has been a good thread! 

[nastybritishgardener]

my failure was lettuces and cabbages due to a troublesome Kaninchen.
I finally killed them after 3 week rein of terror to my veg.
They made a very nice Hasenpfeffer.