Doh!!!!
guess who planted all her dwarf beans around canes......and her climbing beans in a neat row with no support ? :-\
note to self : LABEL THINGS PROPERLY.
The worst ink survives the best memory eh ;D
Been there, done that.. ;D
Not successional sowing properly....
We'll have so many runners we'll need a new freezer just for them! ::)
Alison
Nice mistake, two cabbages are cauliflowers. Next year I will label (I promise) not sure what the other plants I planted are but will find out soon, may be broccoli or sprouts. Also one fruit tree that I can't remember what it is, has no fruit on it or flowers but is growing well. OH tells me off cause I recycle everything, stand still in my house and you will be recycled. He keeps asking me about pots, are they early or whatever, I just say eat them and shut up, they are pots. I will take a photo of my tree, and perhaps someone will know what it is.
I have managed to get 5 dwarf french bean in the middle of a row of runners. I did not notice until they started producing yellow beans. I thought it was odd they did not climb but I still had not noticed they were not runners.
And another set of dwarf beans at the north end of a row of climbing ones. This time it was not me, the packet definitely said climbing.
I never seem to be able to find a permanent marker when I want one. I bought two packets recently on special offer in Tesco and still cannot find either of them.
I also have three brocolli plants in a row of brussel sprouts.
I was very good and kept a list of the rows of brassicas, and yes you guess it I lost the list. I found the notebook but the page was missing!!?
Planted squash on both south and north side of the trellis. Big mistake as those on the south side are rampant and those on the north side don't have enough light. I've transplanted a Hunter to a place in full sun and am watering copiously each day - so far so good.
My walled garden is so tiny I try to get as much as I can into the small available space. Sweetcorn is much too close really, but looks to be doing well. But I think my biggest mistake was leaving it too long before deciding I would have to water the blueberries - even if I had to use tap water after my seven water butts had been emptied. Two bushes have died and the other three have given me a very small harvest of very small berries.
Ah well! Too much rain and blight last year - not enough rain and poor results this year - that's our wonderful British climate for you!
Tricia
trying to grow endive & raddichio early because the temperatures were so low & it all going to seed once the heatwave hit :(
germinating sweetcorn in plastic pots instead of the fibre ones....the roots seem to have objected to being disturbed & hardly any have survived being transplanted ::)
Not starting a new strawberry bed because I thought I could stretch my current strawberty plants to four years.... but the strawbs have mostly been so small (still delicious thogh) that I know I should discard them this year, sigh!
Not keeping a diary of all events and actions and plans for the coming season. This way I can look back and see what has been good and bad over the year. Also keeping a check on day to day weather and rainfall, which would help over the long term in the growing and reproduction of new plant material for the garden.
Put toms and corguettes out too early - went on my hols and got hit by the late frosts.
Too many squash in a small area.
I seem to have killed my cabbages - not sure why but they look dreadfull
Put toms in the hotest part of the garden where they get sun all day - I now need to water at least once a day ( they are in black buckets - another error - they get sooo hot.) if not more.
Didn't keep the diary/log I had planned.
Not planning on what to do with the kilos of cherries and raspberries...
Im sure there's more ;D
I planted an nurtured like one of my own children 2 chilli plants, i sowed them from a mixed packet of seed so thought id got two different types of chilli, although i had my suspisions all along i just wouldnt accept that one of my beloved plants wasnt actually a chili, but last week i bit the bullet and pulled up a lovely Parsnip :)
Other general mistake was forgeting to label things or labeling them and then washing of the writing with my watering.
Doh
Mistakes?? Who makes mistakes ::)
I guess my biggest error was trying to economize on potting compost and bought a load of c**p not to mention the dodgy farmyard manure.
Result; Lost hundreds of plants!
Next year I go back to making my own compost!!
Planted my tomatoes and squashes together.......well it worked with the sweetcorn ::)
I'm so glad it's not just me, I really tried with labelling this year, still managed to have 6 tomatoes with no label, planted one in a bottomless pot thinking it was a tumbler, it's a tigerella going mad ;D
6 squash plants with no labels, won't know until they fruit what they are, I know the types i planted but can't differentiate ;D
caught my best cucumber with my stick and pulled it out of the ground :o
just as well I'm not a farmer dependent on my plot for food ;D
joining the NHS >:(
I thought I was wrong
Then found out that I was not.
We built raised beds all over our tiny lottie then decided to build a plastic covered greenhouse over a pair of them.leaving the space between as the centre path.No problems , it went up very well and is great for my tomatoes which are now planted in them. the mistake was planting one bed with carrotts, beets, parsnips etc and the other with brassicas before we decided to build the greenie, then having to dig them up and chuck them to make way for the toms...
Dong ::)
XX Jeannine
Not waiting till I had an allotment at my new place sorted out before sowing all the tender stuff... Result, instead opf having a steady year disengaging from my Oxford plot it's full, my back garden is full, there are a load of late brassicas and leeks waiting for space and I have no carrots or parsnips......
chrisc
major mistake was asking the council if i needed planning permission for my greenhouse i should have put it up and asked later :'(
growing wise i should have bought more grow bags and got started earlier!
Did not puy out canes for some of my climbing beans and after only a week away there is a terrible tangle of shoots.
:D well I'm so glad it's not just me....... ;)
we are never to old to learn eh! ;) ( thing is ....will we ? )
Happy Growing... :-*
;D we can't be right all the time.
I planted my tomatoes much too close together. dunno how I will pick them! I also sowed a whole lot of squash and don't know what they are.
Not covering my Spuds when the frosts came, :'( famous last words my plot on the end always seems to miss the frosts. :P ;D ;D ;D
putting runner beans out too early
Not a mistake with planting as such, but...
I allowed someone to use my spare allotment (I have 2), as my co-worker, with a view to eventually handing it back to the council, who would then offer the named co-worker the tenancy.
Seemed a good idea, but she is not doing much gardening, and is not there much. I don't feel I can take it back as there are a few crops, and a shed. I thought I was helping a keen gardener but now I really wish I had kept using it myself.
Forgetting to sow parsnips and carrots.
Using very old lettuce seeds and then finding none of them germinated. I have now bought some new packets.
Growing far too many mange tout and not planting any peas.
dropped one of my trays of tomato plants. 3 out of 20 ruined, but all the labels fell out. Ended up throwing away plants with labels and keeping ones without just to have a proper selection
Planted 4 half rows of peas in a way that made them almost impossible to pick :D
Kept sowing some salad seeds when it was obvious they had gone off
but in a very difficult year, as many new successes as new failures ;)
I bought peat-free sowing compost from B&Q in March and none of my tomatoes or peppers germinated. They grew happily in the soil in my polytunnel:-) - but all my toms are late this year.
Sowing parnips too thinly - too late to correct and being a bit late with successional sowings of peas and carrots.
Otherwise, here in France, no veggies being bought for many months:-)
and put a trough of carrots right under the niger seed feeder :D
Took home a big tub of loganberries. Never eaten them before and swore we never would again.
They were extremely sour.
About to dig up the plant when our allotment neighbour told us they were not ripe and to wait until they
turn almost black. We had tried them Raspberry red.
Still makes me cringe thinking about that taste. x
Manouche, you might be able to make jam with them? (the unripe loganberries)
I had some Pentland Javelins left from last year so I broke the rules, chitted and planted them. Absolute disaster, won't do that again.
Not digging or watering enough, then expecting carrots, parsnips and beetroots to grow!
Sowing far too much as usual. Still got brassicas and salads and stuff in pots waiting for my spuds to come out so I've got room for them.
Hi Hope you don't mind me joining in ;)
Made sooo many mistakes in this first year could fill the page but not labelling anything cos I will remember what they are has to be the worst.
X Chas
Quote from: Alimo on July 12, 2010, 10:56:52
Not successional sowing properly....
Definitely one of mine.
Planted Lettuce rows too close together, some rotted under the leaves of others.
Forgot to put drainage holes in some of the black florist buckets I used for the tomatoes, lost 3 plants because they got too water logged.
Forgot to put netting over Cabbages and Pea plants, Cabbage Whites etc and Pea Moths etc got to the plants.
Didn't sow enough Courgette seeds only one plant survived and the flowers aren't getting pollinated.
..but this was my first year and I've learnt alot ;)
QuoteI had some Pentland Javelins left from last year so I broke the rules, chitted and planted them. Absolute disaster, won't do that again.
What rules? [insert tone of voice meaning, 'I don't know the rule', as opposed to tone of voice that says 'you're talking nonsense!' ;D]
I'm another one who could have done more successional sowing, lettuce-wise...
And I planted my beans out too early and they died and I had to start again ::)
1.planted courgettes in raised beds they're struggling as it's been so dry and the beds drain very freely.
2.Planted loads of chillis in pots which aren't big enough they're struggling as
well.
3.Bothering with runner beans at all,they're covered in black fly and not enjoying the lack of rain,they're struggling.
4.Accepting swede plants from a lottie neighbour back along,'dug up huge swedes this morning but who wants swedes in July ?That said despite being sown in a tray and then pricked out they behaved beautifully and I thought you couldn't transplant root crops :)
I've got red flowers on my climbing beans that should have white and I planted a second lot of Scarlet Runners because the first lot didn't germinate..still waiting for those flowers, suspect I don't have any of one tpe and 2 sets of Scarletts. Seems I replanted the wong ones ::)XX Jeannine
Not reading the seed packet!
I'm planning to dig over the whole lottie mid-October, but I've got some cabbage, onions and leeks that won't be ready until December . . . have to leave them be I suppose and dig later [or harvest them early].
Experience is recognising a mistake when you make it again . . .
Pulled my first ever pototoes yesterday by the way, 10 oz [300 gm if you prefer], from one 'Annabelle' plant, after 9 weeks [they need another 5/6 weeks really]. Is that good, bad, average? ???
Pretty exciting for me anyway ;D They'll on our dinner plates later today ;D
In January I cut my cherry tree back. My neighbour has a shredder and I asked him to shred all the wood for me which he did. Looking around for a use for the now piled up wood chips I thought it would be a good idea to cover (in the sense of protect) the rhubarb plants with some of it. Luckily I only covered one of them - this plant, usually very healthy and big, almost withered away. Only by raking the chips off and watering daily could I get it back to some sort of life until now and hope it will recover for next year. My assumption is that the cherry wood acted as a poison.
Leaving a gap in me netting for the Pigeons to get at me PSB left with 21 stems,leaving it to late to thin me turnips, going down the plot in the car then walking home for the second time :-[.
Trusting my mate when he said he'd cut me some steel supports to use at the end of my tomato rows for Florida weave supports. The supports never arrived and my tomatoes have sprawled all over the shop.
In trying to correct mistakes made in previous years, I've just made different ones! ;D
Climbing French beans went out just a bit too early, got frosted, and never properly recovered. The beans I'd sown as 'just in case' back up never grew in the cool wet spell, so I still had empty canes until mid July!
I tried to limit the amount of new seeds I tried, sticking to a few real tried and tested favourites.....which did not do as well as previous years! ::)
Still didn't get successional sowing done regularly enough.... ::)
Ran out of room for squashes, as the potatoes are so much later this year, the beds I'd planned to put them in are still full of potatoes......
Grew too many tomatoes, :-[ I'm forced to try a few outdoors again, which I know will get blighted just as they fruit!
Left one bed of brassicas unetted for one day.......pigeons stripped the lot!
Didn't pick my early peas regularly enough, so they dried and died on me!
Didn't pick the rhubarb enough either, and now too late to pick for the freezer.. :-\