My veg are drowning!

pineapple

Last year I grew potatoes sucessfully in sacks without supports. But I have just had an entire bunch of foliage keel over with all the wind and rain. Also all my various veg containers are sodden - despite good drainage.
I'm rigging stuff up now to try and rescue some of it - including a ground sheet and cut up refuse bags for protection against the rain. Heck today I went out in the wet without an umberella - cos it was at home sheltering some flippin potatoes! :mad:
Just wondering if anyone else has had problems and has come up with any solutions?

blushingbride_3

yep my strawberries are all going bad

ALIBOBSY

We have been luckier than some areas, but we still have had alot of days like today-raining all morning then sunny afternoons or mixed sun/cloud/rain on and off each day.
Peas and rhubarb seem to love the water, but the beans and squashes are really behind-runners keep rotting in the ground. Even my greenhouse toms are just starting to get small green toms on-still alot of flowers, hoping for an indian summer or they will be a washout. The strawberries in the ground aren't doing well but the hanging basket ones have been pretty good, but once picked they are going mouldy really quickly.

TBH everything looks weeks behind where they should be, just not been enough sun to bring stuff on .

Ali x

Leif

My chillis probably will not produce anything, having lost most leaves last month, and getting no sun. My tomatoes are producing but I fear they will split due to excess rain. My rocket has gone to seed while small. My peas were eaten by slugs. My Pak Choi is being eaten by slugs. My sunflowers were all eaten. My Camellias died, drowned. Looking on the bright side, the grass is rampant, so needs cutting fortnightly, and the bindweed is doing well, and is never eaten by anything.

Scallycat_2

I have been wondering how people have been affected by the recent weather garden-wise. Whilst feeling very sorry for those who have lost veg etc, I have to say it has been quite welcome for me. In summer my garden is usually bone hard and everything struggles, but it is looking really good at the moment. I have also been planting quite a bit (plants & shrubs) and everything so far is all doing really well.

The grass was getting a bit out of control, but I finally managed to get out between showers on Sunday evening and cut it.

peter_the_piper

Our sprouts have started flowering, planted when it was the warm spring, they grew during the cold wet part (winter???to them) and now its warm and wet they think its next year so are bolting.

pineapple

My neighbour has been complaining about snails (that would be because I chuck all mine over his end then )
Chillies are fine, beans look sodden but hopefully just on pause, tomatoes - a few flowers and lots of foliage, potatoes it's wait and see.
I think it depends when you planted things. My chillies caught the glorious May weather, the tomatoes were planted out just before it turned nasty.

TheMoneySpider

pineapple wrote: »

Heck today I went out in the wet without an umberella - cos it was at home sheltering some flippin potatoes! :mad:

That's such a "gardener" thing to do

bess1234_2

anyone know why my earliest early potatoes havent flowered? Do they flower? Is it because nothing has flowered or fruited and is only just started now? And yes we have had it vvvvvv bad

pineapple

bess1234 wrote: »

anyone know why my earliest early potatoes havent flowered? Do they flower? Is it because nothing has flowered or fruited and is only just started now? And yes we have had it vvvvvv bad

My first attempt at spuds was last year and they all flowered.
This year my second early Maris Peer planted near the end of April (potato sacks) and my main crop Desiree (garden) planted a bit later are all flowering. The Maris Peer are twice as high. But their location and growing medium is better..
I have read on gardening forums that sometimes potatoes don't flower and that you will still get potatoes.
http://www.extension.org/pages/36899/my-friend-has-big-beautiful-green-potato-plants-without-a-single-blossom-will-he-still-get-potatoes
Are the plants starting to die back yet? That would be a sure sign they are ready. Whatever I would be tempted to have a furtive grope around. It depends how big you want them to be.

Tescodealqueen

bess1234 wrote: »

anyone know why my earliest early potatoes havent flowered? Do they flower? Is it because nothing has flowered or fruited and is only just started now? And yes we have had it vvvvvv bad

This is the first time we have planted first earlies. No flowers yet but one of the stalks fell over in the rain and when we lifted it we have POTATOES, red ones and white ones , this was a real surprise. Might be worth having a root around