Topic: what veg can't you grow

[landimad]

Struggling with carrots!

Try to open up the soil and improve it with sand and perlite to get these blighters to grow.
I have have a good success with raised beds and soil improvement. My father could only grow them once he had opened up the soil. He like me has to contend with very heavy clay. good for nutrients but not so good when you have to get the roots to go down a ways.
Spent compost or rotted down waste clippings from the council are good too.
The things that give me trouble are the same as most of you, Caulis, brussels, and spuds this year. The crops have been small to nothing and I felt as though the plot was against me getting to grips with producing a good meal for the family.
I shall not change anything but rotate and hope that next year will be better than this.
A few less strawberries and more different veggies mixed in the borders will always go down well with the kids.

[Unwashed]

Butternut squash, globe artichoke, all the brassicas, florence fennel, beetroot, french beans, spinach.

Rhubarb is only just hanging onto life, but I did just about manage some nice carrots this year.

[saddad]

Poor rhubarb and good carrots would suggest you are on a free-draining sandy soil... poor brassicas as well... that's the trouble with gardeners they want to grow plants from a wide range of different habitats in a small area...  :-[

[Unwashed]

Poor rhubarb and good carrots would suggest you are on a free-draining sandy soil... poor brassicas as well...

Blimy, Mystic Meg!  You're dead-on with free-draining sandy soil. 

If I can get the carrots to germinate then they're OK, but it can dry to dust in no time at all, and getting dung is getting so much more difficult.  But the up side is that digging is easy and weeds don't have much to hang on to.

[lewic]

Aubergines. Small, full of seeds and tasted foul!

[shirlton]

Celery aubergines. did manage a few peppers this year but not very succesfully

[Squash64]

Brassicas  (except Collards)
celery
carrots in the ground (ok in tubs)
beetroot
leeks
onions
garlic

[cornykev]

Cauli's and swede, and Chriscross I hope your sor tit gets better.   :o    ;D ;D ;D

[Unwashed]

I used to reckon that leeks were easy, but leek moth has completely changed that, and I'm sure rust is more of a problem than it was 10 years ago.

[BarriedaleNick]

Carrots, Caulis, Corriander and Celery/Celariac

Hang on there's a theme here... ;D

[dtw]

okra, might try again next year, sowing it a bit earlier.
I did get some flowers, but the bad weather came too early.

[blackcountrysteve]

i found the brassicas all hard work to grow !!

if i'm to follow the rotation system, how can i do this if i ditch the brassicas ?

the only brassica any good was the turnip, had those in abundance

the only other veg that failed was carrots,plenty of tops on them but very small roots !!

[Borlotti]

Love it Cornykev, sor tits are painful.  Off topic.  ;D ;D ;D

[cornykev]

I'm just trying to keep a breast of things Borlotti, Steve did you grow the carrots in manure, because it will feed the tops and not the root.     ;D ;D ;D

[Slug_killer]

Cauli's and swede, and Chriscross I hope your sor tit gets better.   :o    ;D ;D ;D

I'm no doctor but I'm sure seaweed extract aint good for a sor tit - no matter how its applied.   :-X

[blackcountrysteve]

I'm just trying to keep a breast of things Borlotti, Steve did you grow the carrots in manure, because it will feed the tops and not the root.     ;D ;D ;D

i'm on my 2nd year kev so i'm learning all the time !!! i'll choose an unmanured bed next year ;)

[cleo]

okra, might try again next year

Advice I can give, inspiration on many things I can give

But okra??-go forth and may you multiply

and if you do drop in and let me know ;)

[cornykev]

I'm in my 4th season Steve and still learning.   ???     ;D ;D ;D