Summer season closing

[betula]

I don't do winter veg so it is all over for me till next year.

What has been your biggest success this year?

Mine has to be my Enorma runner beans........... ;D

[betula]

[Flighty]

I don't do winter veg either, and pottering round the plot this morning it was looking decidedly end of seasonish!

Yes the runner beans did surprisingly well, considering that they're not supposed to like dry summers or warm nights, but for me it has to be the yellow tomatoes, possibly Golden Sunrise, that I grew for the first time which were delicious.  :)

[antipodes]

Looks like it was my onions! they were terrific.
Not my best year - aubergines failed to thrive, squash got sick, too dry for melons and once again no carrots succeeded. Courgettes got sick and all died.
Still, the tomatoes were quite good, I got a fair few beans and enough seeds to replant next year, herbs sprouted up and I got good potatoes despite the drought. I still have leeks, pak choy, brussel sprouts, late beetroot and parsnips in so there is still some hope. Now just have to work harder next year!

[grawrc]

This has been my best season ever despite the white rot on the garlic. I had bumper harvests of everything I grew and my plot is still heaving with produce.

[betula]

The Blight hit my Beef toms and they were doing so well,first time I have tried to grow them too......so disappointing.

Had a good crop from my pots though

for some strange reason they were not affected.

Radish were ok but bit on the small side,Beetroot great,carrots small as usual grrr

Courgettes have known better but for a tiny patch not bad really. ;D

[muddylou]

Best was the Garlic, all did well but the spring planted ones were bigger, both Solent Wight.
Worst, Broad Beans, blackfly hammered them, Carrots hit and miss.

Spuds, Lady Balfour gave a huge yield but lots had wireworm attacks, different variety next year. 

[small]

Butternut squash were brilliant, my first time with turnip and swede so I'm pleased they grew, but best was managing cauliflowers. I feel like a real gardener now!

[beanie3]

Mine was garlic, summer cabbages and tomatoes. 

I went outside today and it all looks wet and sparse - roll on the green manure!

[saddad]

Butternut squash were brilliant, my first time with turnip and swede so I'm pleased they grew, but best was managing cauliflowers. I feel like a real gardener now!

You must show us how Small, we never get anywhere with them! :'(

[Bugloss2009]

main event is yet to come - the squashes and pumpkins

[Digeroo]

My allotment is still bulging.  Sprouts, carrots, psb, parnips, cabage all to look forward to.  Winter greenery looking good: cress, mustard, etc etc.  Beans still dripping, July sown ones ready for cropping next week.  Tomatoes still ripening and sweet corn still producing.  Fleece starting to appear around the plot.  I am hoping for another 4-6 weeks of the sumer crops.

Calebrese been great this year and sweet corn too.  Squash napoli produced a huge amount of fruit lets hope it tastes good.  Enjoyed my own strawberries, grew my first ever cauliflower.  Some nice potatoes. Great carrots.  Watering was a real chore this year.

Not bought much veg since mid June, last year managed to last to end of January and hope this will be longer this year.

[sunloving]

I got a new plot this year after moving and so it was really hard work and everything is so late.
But every disaster like the sweetcorn not ripening and the french beans not taking off is a lesson about this particular plot and so just makes me plan better for next season. But also a refection of the hard winter we had with frosts in april and drought in may and june.

Even with the late start my tomatoes have been brilliant (sungold  and gardeners delight)- i bought a 14ft plastic greenhouse after 15 years of growing them in mini greenhouses! . my cupboards have bottles of roast tomatos and chillie jam and the freezer is full of dwarf french beans and so thats always my test if there still stuff to eat from the patch into october.

but the best "crop" of all was the many many bunches of dried helicrysums (strawflowers) that will brighten up the house for the months between the last chrysanth and the first snow drop.
they smell fabulous.

onwards and upwards - :) im starting my corn of and potting them on in the gh next year to try to steal a few more weeks of ripening time. and asking for an automatic vent for the gh for xmas ehich will help keep the condensation down a bit.

x sunloving