Topic: How many.............................

[Mrs Ava]

Swedes and turnips.  Swedes don't even bother to germinate and turnips germinate, then struggle and eventually die.  Think I pulled about 3 last year, and they were all riddled with holes!!  Carrots can be patchy but am sowing so many rows this year I HAVE to get some!  Basil germinates, then either grows like the clappers, or all dies.

Terrance, angelica I can grow!  I grew some from seed last spring and it looked wonderful in my garden.  I let it flower and set seed, which is distributed exactly where I wanted it to, and already it is a foot high and lush!

[terrace max]

Terrance, angelica I can grow!  I grew some from seed last spring and it looked wonderful in my garden.  I let it flower and set seed, which is distributed exactly where I wanted it to, and already it is a foot high and lush!

boo hoo!

[moonbells]

It's too soon to tell. I'm only really in my second serious season (after three years of dabbling previously). Last year - everything failed. But I blame the weather. My biggest disappointment was the parsnips. they did a grand total of nothing. And I love them. Oh and the fennel bolted. I will sow both later this year...

If your fennel bolted then you probably won't have to sow any more - it'll have self-sown (unless you cut off the flower heads when you saw them!) and you'll be digging it up for years!

moonbells

[Doris_Pinks]

Glad to see it is not just me then! I had another thought, for some reason lettuces and I do not get on either!  But I too am doing the EJ method and throwing so many carrots and lettuces in, something has to turn up! ;D

[return of the mac]

How disheartening these posts are. For me it must be anythin sown in the ghouse- I leave them there and forget to water them. Although ive found mushrooms growing on my cappiliary matting ::) maybe thats a new method ??? not sure where they came from- eat em or smoke em?

[wardy]

Och these purists eh.  Mebbe they're not hungry enough  ;D

[ina]

Onions due to white rot.
Brassica due to clubroot.
Tomatoes due to blight.

Hahahaha, what a happy lottie.

On the bright side.
Blight resistant tomatoes are doing well, they did get a little but it was manageable and I'm getting good harvests. Not like the non-resistant tomatoes where, as soon as they get infected, the blight spread like wild fire before getting hardly any harvest.
This year I'm going to try clubroot resistant broccoli. I will still take precautions like starting early in pots until they have a good sized rootball and then planting in compost with lime.

[telboy]

Just be patient.

It seems that at the flush of 'apparent' Spring, everyone rushes out and what do you achieve -- LITTLE or NOWT.

There's still plenty of time. I'm still digging! The ground is still cold.

HOLD HARD!

[Charlotte Sometimes]

Cannot grow spinach for love nor money.  Having one last try this season...

Last year's sweetcorn was not a great success, but it just rained and rained here so maybe not a great surprise.

[ALAN HOWELL]

[ My biggest disappointment was the parsnips. they did a grand total of nothing. And I love them.

I use Dobies primed seed,never fails .....Alan