Whats been good,whats been bad?

splodger_seedswapper

at greyqueen - my weeds have been really abundant this year too - best they have ever been :mad:

everything has been good for me - except maybe my gooseberries (but i did move the bushes during the off season - so that would have upset them a bit)

Red_Doe

Good....tatties, turnips, cabbage, brussels so far, onions and leeks and some carrots.
Bad...everything else! Including pumpkin and squash, not one of which survived the wet and windy weather we have here, beetroot..didn't even germinate...kale, of all things, that should be as tough as old boots, but isn't...peppers in the greenhouse...slugs and snails ate 'em ....tomatoes...goodness knows what happened to them but they just got to about five inches then withered away. cauliflowers...just vanished overnight so assuming something ate those too.

lisa26_2

elsien wrote: »

mangetout and carrots good, courgettes really not worth planting.

Don't even talk to me about courgettes!!! I only managed to get 3 to germinate from loads that I planted!! 2 of those died not long after planting out and the other, which got the same treatment is doing okish but got given to my bro as in the meantime my mum bought me a plant!! I now have some small corgettes but they are growing ridiculously slowly!! My mum on the other hand is over run with them...probably not a bad thing that mine are rubbish!!!

rhiwfield

Good: greenhouse toms, outdoor cucs, courgettes, winter squash, peas, broad beans, asparagus, leaf beet, rhubarb, autumn raspberries, strawberries, blackcurrants, goosegogs, runner beans, parsnips

Bad: Summer raspberries, onions, garlic (rust) , greengage (botrytis), chillis, outdoor toms, potatoes (blight!!) brassicas

Mixed: Apple trees (some good, some poor)

ab7167

Good : Spinach & rainbow chard - cropping like mad, we have been eating it 4 times a week for about 3 months now, showing no signs of bolting or dying back. I have a freezer full for the winter and have been bringing the surplus into work (my kids have finally rebelled at being fed it at least every other meal!). Golden and candy stripe beetroot both did really, really well (I hate the blood from 'normal' beetroot so I grow these varieties instead cos I like the taste!). Carrots have done really well, as have onions, potatoes, spring onions and kale. Cabbage did well as well, as did garlic.

Bad : broad beans just rotted on the plant, tomatoes v v v slow to ripen and then rotting on the vine (Big Boy variety as well...), broccoli all went to seed so quick as did the pak choi. Strawberries were rubbish, but it was first year, and no soft fruit cos it was new this year as well. Rhubarb bolted almost overnight, we were away for a week and it was too late to save it when we got back. Courgettes indifferent, but not as good as have been in the past.

Others : plums - we don't have any, but the local wild trees have gone bananas, I've made 25lbs of jam already, with another 10lb of fruit in the freezer for crumble etc. Was hoping to do some chutney as well, but I'm getting married on Friday so have kind of run out of time. Blackberries seem to be a bit odd locally, some bushes really heavy and others not ripe at all. Going to leave it another week and try again. Apples next door doing well (empty, we have permission to hop the fence and help ourselves :-))

Am making plans for next year now :-) This was our first year (have grown courgettes before but nothing else), I'm so chuffed with how well it's gone (not an allotment, we bought a house last year with a garden 50'x150' :-)

rabidbun

Good: Parsley, strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, tomatoes (outdoor actually better than indoor), chillies (gh), gooseberries, chives.

Average: Salad (most bolted though), garlic (the Wight stuff didn't work at all, so won't be using the vendor I got it from again), onions (many suffered from rot and some bolted), mint (great early on, diseased later), blackcurrants (eaten by birds and insanely early, leaves fell around a month ago), melons (good start, mildew taking hold), cucumbers (some crop, but slow to start and only three plants surviving).

Bad: Courgettes (two plants, three courgettes), peas (now saving for seed only, mildewed a month ago), mange tout (partly due to sparrows), french beans (no beans off them yet, though the plants are finally showing signs),

gin

good : beans, garlic, spring onions, onions, new potatoes
bad : beetroot, carrots, courgettes
OK : sweetcorn (I hope but looking good), I have 2 pumpkins growing!!!, strawberries, tomatoes so long as we get more sun!

Poppea

:jFantastic: Courgettes, Strawberries, Bramley Apples & Rhubarb.
Good: Spinach, Mange Tout, Garlic, Spring Onions, Beetroot, Swiss Chard, Blueberries, Apples, Cherries, Salad Mix, Lettuce, Rocket, Pak Choi, Parsnips & Jerusalem Artichokes (looking promising).
Disappointing: All Tomatoes, Cucumber, Gooseberries, French Beans, Peppers, Chillies.

weiser

good runner beans raspberrries plums cucumbers sweetcorn bad:(courgettes

annie123

GOOD: potatoes, runner beans, courgettes, beef toms and gardeners delight best crop I've had off them in years, strawberries, rhubarb, tomatilios looking good, ridge cucumbers, lots of herbs and sweet peppers

BAD french beans...no idea why but a really poor crop this year , calabrese all bolted, summer raspberries got raspberry beetle, chilli peppers..worst crop I've had in the 20 years I've been growing them


anything else average.