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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: Tee Gee on June 01, 2010, 13:32:05
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I was reading the article on 'Beetroot' and was surprised to find that some people have difficulty with this veg.
So I got to thinking (confession time) does any one else have a veg that they just can't get any success with?
I'll set the ball rolling;
My achilles heel is 'Cucumber'
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Pumpkins.............If I can get them to germinate it is a miracle ;D
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cucumber also
and up to but NOT this year 8), main crop peas
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Last year I grew beetroot in containers and they were a complete disaster - they just failed to plump up at all. This year they are in the garden and I'm crossing my fingers. I wouldn't mind but I don't even like them; they are a 'consolation crop' to keep OH happy! If they fail again this year though OH is going to think it is deliberate!
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Radishes...... rarely have any success with them....
chrisc
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Definitely radishes! the so called easiest to grow!!
usually it's also carrots but fingers crossed they look like working out OK this time!
(just wondering what Betula is doing to germinate her pumpkins? They are my most successful crop usually!! This year I have even sowed in place and they have come through.)
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Cauliflower I have an expensive F1 vareity this year and I am keeping everything crossed.
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Cucumber for me too- even the plants I got from Saddad's sale failed on me, so i gave up after that. Also gave up on aubergines.
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Cucumber, Celery will grow but its that tough that we can't eat it.
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Leeks!. Up until three years ago i could grow chunky leeks so big they had compressed the clay around them into concrete. Since moving to this new site, also on clay, I have barely managed thumb thick (but tasty) output. <sulk>
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I have had my allotment for four years and i have never had success with parsnips.
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Where to begin!!
Up till now - Carrots! Not this year though as I have barricades in place and a master plan!!
Previously radish but have muich better success with the long rather than round ones..
Celariac - impossible!
Celery - see celariac..
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deffo cauliflour only managed 1 in 7 years
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Carrots, parsnip and courgette, I'd say with some embarrasment!
My courgettes never seem to do anything. I've got 6 plants this year, so hopefully one of them will be ok!
Carrots never seem to produce roots.
Parsnips never even germinate (even though I always use new seed). But they have this year!
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Cauli's. :'( ;D ;D ;D
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All brassicas >:(
I have tried for 3 years to grow cabbages, cauliflowers or brocilli, each year they germinate and then die. Thinking this must be due to damping off this year I mixed sand into the compost, reduced watering and then only from the bottom. I though I had cracked it and they produced their first true leaves - and then died. Just sowed some more in a last ditch attempt for this year.
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swede, until this year, started them off in jiffys, into fibre pots when germinated..planted out when could see the tap root, if the leaves are anything to go by, they should be ok, fingers crossed :)
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Brussel sprouts :'(
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Spring onions :-[
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I think my achillies heel is as the original post said, beetroot. I have failed to get a decent crop for the past few years and have tried all sorts of tricks and methods to get them to grow, mostly involving sowing in pots or modules then planting out . My biggest problem has been the birds, particularly sparrows who tend to destroy the top growth before any roots can form, thereby ruining the crop even if they regrow. I have been forced this year to have an enviromesh cover made to protect both beetroot from the birds and carrots from the fly.
Carrots too are somewhat of a nemesis of mine much as i love eating homegrown carrots. With these too I have to sow in pots or modules them plant out. I get a crop but it is much reduced due to the limitations of container growing.
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cauliflower, leek and really good sweetcorn. I can get sweetcorn, but it never looks as good as everyone elses. The leeks never fatten up and the cauliflower usually bolt. The first year we had the plot we had amazing cauliflowers and we have never managed since to even grow a single one!
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Carrots for me - but this year I think/hope we might even manage to grow more than we can eat ;D Great, cos I love 'em more than pretty much anything else!
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peas - I sowed SIX lots last year in my attempts to manage at least one dinner.
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Carrots, brussels and caulis.
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Carrots (can grow in a compost filled bath only), sweetcorn (miserable) and rocket - always bolts whatever the temperature.
Regards, Caro
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peas - I sowed SIX lots last year in my attempts to manage at least one dinner.
Oh yes, forgot about peas! >:(
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well, where to start!!
Peas - I always have high hopes and they never seem to be realised and I end up buying peas from the greengrocers ::)
Then moving swiftly on to sweetcorn (fingers crossed for this year) and cauli's (bolted last year)
for next year I will probably be adding to the list swede, celery and celeriac ::) :P
But don't us gardeners like a challenge ;)
1066
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Brussel sprouts to date but this year they look ok at the moment :-X oh and hot chillis that won't germinate.
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Every year I decide to give aubergines one last chance, if I don't get a fruit then that's it (well maybe one more chance)
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All brassicas >:(
I have tried for 3 years to grow cabbages, cauliflowers or brocilli, each year they germinate and then die. Thinking this must be due to damping off this year I mixed sand into the compost, reduced watering and then only from the bottom. I though I had cracked it and they produced their first true leaves - and then died. Just sowed some more in a last ditch attempt for this year.
Me too, last year i had a last attempt to grow sprouts for Christmas, having previously had the first two sowings die, they grew fantastic, but the sprouts were not firm, tried again this year, bought some expensive seeds, 10 maximus for 95p, all germinated then died. I'm sticking to lettuce!
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Sprouts . The last two years they have blown!I got told by the nursery i go to that my soil was too rich and not to manure it this year. Trying Bedford and Trafalgar this time!
Carrots. Last year i Tried 4 different varieties in my raised bed. all had plenty of top foliage but very small carrots?
Peppers. will not germinate!New seed used ?
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Carrots have been a real pain for me, wont grow anywhere or way that I try them, not in pots, not at allotment so have given up with them for this year.
Spring onions are the same keep failing in pots, raised beds & in the ground but leeks & onions do fine ::)
This year is the last time I will try them if they fail again.
Normally I have wonderful beetroot crops but this year germination from direct sowing is so poor I am starting some off at home for the first time ever! Im wondering if its because of the widely fluctuating temperstures we've been having - today is very very hot already & its not even 9am but Tuesday it was so cold, damp & foggy it truly felt like November :o
I am trying swede, parsnips & turnips for the first time this year so will probably be adding them to my dont think I will try again list
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Spring onions ans swede....but i'm determined this will be the year....