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

[Smileyk]

Tomatoes - they were fine until I went away on hol and when I got back half of the outside ones were brown and YUCK!  Greenhouse and rest of outside ones are currently okay.  I had about 20 odd plants and have had less tomatoes this year than any other.  Not impressed by that at all.

Caulis and cabbages the caterpillars got to - grrr

Best thing has been the potatoes and chillies.

[northener]

Heyup Barnowl Yes i got them to about golfball size then they just stopped.

[Barnowl]

Mine (six on one plant) vary from recently starting off to small grapefuit size  but recently seem to have slowed down a lot.  Only one successfully pollinated one dropped off - that was when it was about half golfball size.  I've read here that's what squash do when they aren't properly pollinated.

PS Sorry should have mentioned,  it is in the GH where I try and keep the atmosphere quite humid, to deter red spider mite.

[Trixiebelle]

The usual suspects

Aubergines: Oh what pretty flowers! Oh they've died and dropped off ::)

Celeriac: They're growing ... they're growing ... they're the size of marbles  ::)

Outdoor tomatoes: WHY do I bother ... year after s***ing year  ::)

Watercress: It's doing well .... it's sprouting ..... it's got 4 leaves .... it REMAINS with 4 leaves and never gets any bigger  ::)

Sea Kale: It's growing ... it's growing .... it's gone to seed overnight  ::)

Carrots: I've REALLY prepared the soil well this year ... oh ... they're the size of a baby's pinky finger YET AGAIN.

Plums: Oooooh the tree looks well this year! So why only 3 plums?

A Squash: Right then. I can't remember what you're called but obviously you're ALL MALE and not going to grace my table this autumn, which saves me from saving seed from you and growing yet another season of 'un-named' squashes.

Atlantic Giant Pumpkin: A categorical 'no show'. HOW AM I GOING TO WIN THE PUMKIN COMPETITION WITH NEIGHBOUR AHMED WITHOUT YOU ... YOU FILTHY ROTTEN SEED!

Lamb's Lettuce: Have the lambs been in my allotment whilst I wasn't looking?

Ad infinitum .... until next year, when I will attempt to grow these things ALL OVER AGAIN  ;D

[caroline7758]

French beans, peas as always, parsnips ( a total of 7 growing), butternut squash, and I suspect sweetcorn as it's not looking good.  :(

[ninnyscrops]

Aubergines here too - might just press the flowers that drop off  to get some benefit  ::)

[nittynora]

Brassicas....... can't grow em from seed so bought baby plants.  Everything I read says they are easy (just lime the soil and make sure it is really packed down) so don't know what I'm doing wrong..... can't even get them to planting stage!!
???

The much bigger disappointment though ........ is waiting in vain for even one picture of amazing tomatoes from TGG or NBG or WhateverImcallingmyselfthesedays.
 ::) ::)::) ::) ::)

Best thing about the season...... all the brilliant advice, honesty, humour and cautionary tales from the vast majority of posters on this forum.  Let's ignore the "great" and "nasty" and concentrate on the "good" (the rest of us)
 ;D

BTW our toms haven't got blight (yet) - finger's crossed (but that's another thread!)

[posie]

Hmmm, where to start.......

Carrots - not one anywhere despite that soil being as fine as flippin talc!

Peas - mice got them

Broad beans - who knows!

Runner beans - had some but need more plants next year I think

French beans - had 3!

Lettuce - not 1

Broccolli/Sprouts/Cauliflower - cauli doing ok, cant tell the different between other 2 right now, but fingers crossed!

Spuds - slight slug disaster but had a few tasty meals so pleased with that

Parsnips - got 5 growing, so only lost 2

Beetroot - fabulous

Tomatoes - blight - green tom chutney anyone?!

Rhubarb - planted two, but got a bit over enthusiastic with hoe whilst weeding and sadly decapitated 1!

Sweetcorn - planted late but seems to be coming on - bring on the sunshine please!!!

Onions - Brother killed one tray whilst rummaging in my boot and then I piled a load of compost over the ones I actually got in ground cos I forgot they were in there!

Leeks - ditto!

This is my first year and I think a combination of planting slightly late due to uni stuff, weather and blight has definitely had its effects.  However, onwards and upwards!

I intend to plant lots more of everything as I underestimated this year. *Note to self, definitely doing to need another mini greenhouse!  ;D ;D ;D

[sawfish]

My tomatos are rubbish as usual and aubergines a non starter. Carrots started fantastic then the carrot flies from hell killed em all. Oh and my overwintering onions were a joke!

[springbok]

Posie I can join you on this one, being first year and all that for me :)

Carrots - We got about 12 good ones, so not so bad

Peas - not sure what ate them, but magnum borum that were sent me were fab!!

Runner beans - Grew 2 plants, my friends love them, I don't like the taste

French beans - 2 plants, and only 1 bean, slugs had the rest.

Lettuce - only successful thing this year, grew mixed leaves

Broccoli/Sprouts/Cauliflower - Caterpillars had the lot!!!.. stripped bare!

Spuds - from 10 chitted spuds had a good crop from growing in bags.

Parsnips - Only 1 has germinated, looking forward to eating that one!!

Beetroot - whole lot got diseased (posted it on forum somewhere ages ago)

Tomatoes - blight - but managed to make 8lbs of green chutney so happy!!

Onions - Nothing from sets (slugs had the lot) but my seed onions are as big as tennis balls and are lovely

Leeks - didn't get to pencil stage, still look like chives.

Gem Squash - 4 plants, some fruit but didn't realise I had to self pollinate them.

Courgettes - Planted 2 and got loads, still coming now, kids love them

Raspberries - one bowlful, autumn canes never grew

Pumpkin - one plant, got about 5 yellow tennis balls, but not much else yet.

Melons - disaster, slugs

Blackcurrants - plenty of leaves, no fruit

Butternut squash - only just starting to try and flower, and plant only a foot long!

Strawberries - (ninnycrops sent me) two punnet s :D

Definitely learnt a lot this year from the experience.  A gardener who works on a 300 acre estate thinks a lot of my problems have been the soil, as its the first year things have been grown in it from the wilderness I inherited.  This winter I hope to improve my soil in the garden, and have better successes next year.