Veggie Highs and Lows

[Mrs Ava]

Lows - sweetcorn all smothered by boisterous squash plants, chicory didn't germinate and cauliflowerswent 'odd'.

Highs - everything else!

[Mrs Ava]

[RobinOfTheHood]

Lows - bl**dy cabbage whites on my purple sprouting. Cleared the weeds away last night and found 20ish skeletons which used to be plants. My own fault, even though I netted them I didn't keep an eye on them.
Er, that's it I think. No, the peas haven't done too well apart from 'mangetout sugar pod' which are ok. And the peppers 'golden bell' aren't too cracking.

Highs - everything else. Gardeners delight and marmande - getting a good heavy crop, and delicious they are too. French beans 'purple tepee' I think, first time I've grown beans and they're lovely, tasty and tender.
Cukes 'BTG' - giving them away, so many. Sweetcorn 'Indian Summer' and 'Two's Sweeter', going well and almost ready.
Pumpkins - anyone got kids? I could have a few spare....
Courgette 'All Green Bush'  - I ought to go commercial with these things, I'm overrun  ;D
And the rest.

In all 90% good, 10% bad.

And next year will be better  ;D ;D ;D

[the_snail]

Highs

Caugettes loads of the blighters!
Reasonable Shallots in a very weedy bed (Organic! Wildlife friendly gardening ;) :D)
Slowly getting ground cleared as I have had a bit of a year off and it has got a bit weedy  :-\

Lows
Onions are small and not the best. First time I have had a bad crop of onions in a long time.

Peas Vanished

Beans started then vanished

Fat Mice! Very FAT MICE!!!!!  >:(

Cauliflowers scoffed by pigeons (Forgot to protect them  :-\)

This years allotment is a permanent LOWWWWWWW!
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O well my motto is there is always next year and this winter to start and get ready for next year! Do all the soil preparation over winter and start to plant early under cloche next year!

That is my plan anyway!

The_Snail

[ellkebe]

Highs - permanent sense of amazement that anything grows  ;D

Lows - Carrots refused to germinate on the lottie - but hey, there's always next year.   Not a low really - just part of the learning curve  :)