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Swedes and turnips.  Swedes don't even bother to germinate and turnips germinate, then struggle and eventually die.  Think I pulled about 3 last year, and they were all riddled with holes!!  Carrots can be patchy but am sowing so many rows this year I HAVE to get some!  Basil germinates, then either grows like the clappers, or all dies.

Terrance, angelica I can grow!  I grew some from seed last spring and it looked wonderful in my garden.  I let it flower and set seed, which is distributed exactly where I wanted it to, and already it is a foot high and lush!

QuoteTerrance, angelica I can grow!  I grew some from seed last spring and it looked wonderful in my garden.  I let it flower and set seed, which is distributed exactly where I wanted it to, and already it is a foot high and lush!

boo hoo!

Quote from: aquilegia on April 07, 2005, 10:49:43
It's too soon to tell. I'm only really in my second serious season (after three years of dabbling previously). Last year - everything failed. But I blame the weather. My biggest disappointment was the parsnips. they did a grand total of nothing. And I love them. Oh and the fennel bolted. I will sow both later this year...

If your fennel bolted then you probably won't have to sow any more - it'll have self-sown (unless you cut off the flower heads when you saw them!) and you'll be digging it up for years!

moonbells

Glad to see it is not just me then! I had another thought, for some reason lettuces and I do not get on either!  But I too am doing the EJ method and throwing so many carrots and lettuces in, something has to turn up! ;D

How disheartening these posts are. For me it must be anythin sown in the ghouse- I leave them there and forget to water them. Although ive found mushrooms growing on my cappiliary matting ::) maybe thats a new method ??? not sure where they came from- eat em or smoke em?

Och these purists eh.  Mebbe they're not hungry enough  ;D

Onions due to white rot.
Brassica due to clubroot.
Tomatoes due to blight.

Hahahaha, what a happy lottie.

On the bright side.
Blight resistant tomatoes are doing well, they did get a little but it was manageable and I'm getting good harvests. Not like the non-resistant tomatoes where, as soon as they get infected, the blight spread like wild fire before getting hardly any harvest.
This year I'm going to try clubroot resistant broccoli. I will still take precautions like starting early in pots until they have a good sized rootball and then planting in compost with lime.

Just be patient.

It seems that at the flush of 'apparent' Spring, everyone rushes out and what do you achieve -- LITTLE or NOWT.

There's still plenty of time. I'm still digging! The ground is still cold.

HOLD HARD!

Cannot grow spinach for love nor money.  Having one last try this season...

Last year's sweetcorn was not a great success, but it just rained and rained here so maybe not a great surprise.

[ My biggest disappointment was the parsnips. they did a grand total of nothing. And I love them.

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I use Dobies primed seed,never fails .....Alan