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What were you vegetable garden failures in 2008? How do you plan on preventing the same problems in 2009?

Cucumbers.

Not buying seeds from Liddl this year.

Sinbad

Tomato and leeks prevention i wont be putting stray in my trenches this year

Tomatoes again!! All outdoor ones and 30 or more plants all got blight!!  :'(  Lots of green tomato chutney for us.

On the flip side the best thing was my chilli plant that I bought for £1 and it went MAD producing at least 50 (prob more) good sized chillies which have now been dried for storage. First time I have grown chilli.

Problem: Chinese cabbage. Grew beautifully, but were constantly munched by sugs.

Solution: Not growing them again.

Cucumbers-   don't rely on neighbours watering them while youron your hols.
Maris pipers-   treat the soil against wireworm.
Chinese cabbage-  plant later to prevent bolting.

What about you tgg any failures.     ;D ;D ;D

Quote from: medicinejack on January 08, 2009, 20:03:10
Problem: Chinese cabbage. Grew beautifully, but were constantly munched by sugs.

Solution: Not growing them again.

was that sugs from the group 'madness' ? ;D ;D

A stuck 'l', too late did I notice. I wish the slugs were stuck in 'ell. I'm sure Suggs would agree.

leeks same as every year,going to keep em covered all the time this year.Oh and the money tree !!!

Carrots - Autumn King 2 and Cauliflowers - Deakin.  I only had a 10 day window to sow them and this was 4-5 weeks later than the instructions suggested.

Cauliflower and calabrese. They just didn't produce proper heads. Think they were planted a bit late in the season as they did well the year before.

Brussel sprouts - just don't think I will bother this year.

Although our Chinese cabbage were regularly slugged we still got several very good hearts out of the row before the pigeons finished them off!
The sprouts were great too, for the first time really... lots of muck. A late sowing of carrots never really got going and we can't get Swede to grow at all!!
::)

Maincrop spuds, planted late and wiped out by blight. Toms, wiped out by blight. Trail of Tears beans; they sulked and eventually got slugged while Cosse Violette right next to them flourished. Some squashes. The ones in full sun did OK, while anything which got any shade at all sulked. I had a lot of back trouble, which made it hard to keep going at times.

Big successes were peas and sweet corn.

Honey production was pathetic, and it's too early to say what the winter losses are going to be. I've lost one colony, but I never rated the chance of getting that one through very highly. If the remaining five all come through, then I'll be well placed for next year, and meanwhile two bad summers and a long wet winter should have eliminated a lot of unsuitable genes from the population.

Italian 'yard long' beans. Subsequent research showed they need a lot of warmth preferably a GH or Poly.

Cucumbers and aubergines- again! >:(

Sweet potatoes pathetic, but will try again. Brussels sprouts - mixed results. Broad beans a bit disappointing too - lots of chocolate spot. Against that, the successes make it all worthwhile.

leeks got nearly wiped out by moths, as rotations progress, I'm finding a lot of my plot has clubroot, apart from that, WE HAPPY!!

Everything produced well, it was after that was the problem.  All of my garlic has turned black and rotted.  The butternut's didn't ripen properly so I cut them and and kept them in a frost free conservatory.  The ripened but now they are going furry around the stem neck.  :'(

ALL THE RABBITS GOT IN AND HAVE A FIELD DAY  so now hate them  :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(