Whats been good,whats been bad?

MKS

Good - runner beans, mangetout, carrots, shallots, tomatoes (Legend and Ferline are fantastic), courgettes, peppers (jalepenos, chilli and sweet), aubergines and cucumbers (cut one yesterday that measured 43cm).

Bad - onions, leeks, beetroot, radishes

Undecided till harvest - sweetcorn

berkshirelady

I moved from a proper garden, round the corner to pots on patio. Crikey, huge difference for 300 yards (or maybe the weather this year?)

Courgettes - got bad mildew and died. Rocket totally massacred by flea beetles. peppers didn't grow at all. Basil all yellow :-(

cos lettuce, french beans, mixed salad - I fought off white fly and pink aphids, 3rd batch of salad on the go now, been eating loads of leaves - a result in the face of adversity! and a randomly bought cucumber plant at a village hall sale did me proud :-)

spring onions a tad lame this year, tumbling tom tomatoes seems to be fruiting OK - onions a bit tiny but v pungent :-| ?

herbs - freezing mint for mint sauce in winter, thyme and rosemary doing ok.

the oregano & mint flowered and brought in lots of bees...and a bloke down the road has just started to keep them. He showed me the hive and is planning to share honey with us neighbours next year. Yey!

Emma_whitnash

Good: potatoes (charlottes, kind edwards - although didn't get a massive crop of these), garlic, onion, shallots, cooking apples so far, apple and plum saplings

Bad: Carrots, strawbs, french beans (still growing but very small), pear tree sapling- not looking healthy

Reasonable: Peppers and chillies still coming. Toms are still coming, I have fruit just very small. do have some eating apples but some have shrivelled up.

Kazipoo

Good so far.... strawberries, blueberries, cherries, cucumbers, tomatoes (all varieties), cabbage, peas, basil, carrots (looking good), sweetcorn looking nice and strong so far and he planted two pumpkins for November which also look nice and strong.

Bad so far.... lettuce (looks very sad), pears were a complete no show this year, no apples either, so a bit disappointing really.

Buffy_the_Vampire_Bat

Good: Mixed salad leaves, strawberries and courgettes. Although the courgettes have gone a bit quiet now. The strawberries I was really pleased with as I only bought one plant in Morrisons (I don't really like strawberries but they are a must in a jug of Pimm's ) It grew like mad, producing five new plants which have been doing really well too.

Mixed: Cucumbers - was given two plants, one gave up quite early one, the other produced six lovely cucumbers and is thinking about producing numbers six and seven. Tomatoes - lots of the plants, but only a few have ripened. At this rate I will be taking the hairdryer out and seeing if I can trick the tomatoes into thinking it's a lovely warm sunny day so they then ripen . Runner beans gearing up to be productive but being a bit slow getting there. Chillis and peppers going slowly too.

Bad: Beetroot - piddly little things. Radishes - most just refused to grow.

Have also got parsnips, butternut squash, pumpkins and carrots on the go. The squashes are taking over the garden - if they don't produce lots of lovely squashes after the number of times we have had to move pots and growbags around to make sure everything has room I will be very cross :mad:

Emma_whitnash

I forgot about blueberries . got a nice crop of those, they are now in the freezer!

iantrogg

good for me this year have been my tomatoes, onions (both red and brown) spring onions courgettes and peas.

absolute disaster would be my carrots, and beetroot.

Potatoes were not to bad, although not a very big yield.

My happiest moment was when I cooked a meal, spag bol, with all but 2 ingredients from my garden, 1 of which is only due to the fact I cant keep a cow there!!

blueglass

GOOD: Cooking apples, salad leaves, lettuce, leeks (looking good at the moment, planted them at half the distance apart they should be and am currently using every other one as baby leeks and letting the others mature), basil (supermarket pot split into individual plants and potted on), rocket, kale (been amazing - been picking since spring and still going strong), peppers but none ripe yet, blackcurrants.

BAD: Tomatoes (Sungold in greenhouse - loads of fruit but not developing/ripening, same with Plum tomatoes, outdoors Heritage variety - think it's called 'Striped Stuffer' but I may have made that up - 2 huge fruits per plant not ripening), Courgettes, Butternut Squash, Cucumber (ones I raised from seed producing nothing, 2 x 50p plants from boot sale produced 4 and some to come so consider myself in profit as haven't seen organic cues at less the £1 each this summer), Spring Onions - never even saw them!, landcress, strawberries from Aldi, but it was their first year and they did produce a few berries each. Strangely my old strawberry plants haven't produced any runners this year - this will be their last year as they're now 4 years old and produced just a few huge berries this time but I would have liked to have got a few more plants from them.

blueglass

GOOD: Forgot the climbing french beans - sticky start but they've got into their stride now and I can't keep up with them.

toni_

good - new potatoes, runner/french beans, beetroot, chard, cabbages, courgettes, patty pans, cucumbers

bad - sprouting broccoli and carrots