Is everyone's veggies behind schedule?

Ken68

Eeny...Green potatoes aint good to eat.White taters ok. The principal is to let the haulm die down and the goodness go back into the potato.
The most weight is put onto the crop during this phase.
My neighbour grows his earlies in a big tub and just checks the root system without disturbing them too mcuh.

Beetlemama

Pop corn plants are about 14 inches tall, we're not expecting them to do much despite the miracle-gro I'm pouring on them.

Tomatoes are beginning to look like healthy plants but as I recall, two years ago we were collapsing under the weight of tomatoes, last year we had green fruit but it wouldn't go red and this year we don't even have a flower.

The peppers grew peppers but something ate holes in them, not sure if they'll make any more.

Rhubarb died. Never seen that happen before, not a single leaf between them all.

Cauliflowers and cabbage are turning from straggly plants to proper plants but they're still only seedlings due to two false starts, not holding our breath.

The beans and peas look ok, we have bean flowers but the peas are too young to say yet.

Carrots seem to have suffered too with the heavy hard rain digging them up, there's a lot of green on them.

Potatoes look ok so far, but who knows what's underground.

The lettuces have been growing strong since November, we've had lettuce every day but the plague of slugs is ruining them now, such a shame.

Beetroot look like they're going to be ok too, as do the turnips.

The fruit looks good this year though....the Strawberry is doing well, the most we've had off it since we got it, the gooseberry is loaded down and the grape vine promises lots this year (its still young but looking excellent). The red currant has made another bumper crop that we have donated to the blackbirds since they don't appear to be able to find any worms in the rain We still have some of last years red currants in the freezer so we're not too upset.

The apples, plums and pears are a bit hit/miss, there was a lot of blossom, but the winds are bringing down a lot of baby fruit, we'll have to see what happens.

Eenymeeny

Ken68 wrote: »

Eeny...Green potatoes aint good to eat.White taters ok. The principal is to let the haulm die down and the goodness go back into the potato.
The most weight is put onto the crop during this phase.
My neighbour grows his earlies in a big tub and just checks the root system without disturbing them too mcuh.

Thanks Ken68. I had a look today and they just look like normal white potatoes. Some a decent size, and some golf ball size. Reckon we'll just eat them then and hope that we get better from the other plants, thanks for explaining it to me.:T

radiohelen

Our lotties in the Midlands have no beans or carrots on them at all. I've got some nice looking cabbages. I grew dwarf beans that have done well, the celery should have been harvested three weeks ago according to the packet but it's still only 4 inches tall! The sweetcorn is a foot high and doing nothing, the pumpkins and courgettes are the third generation this year and still not loving it! The mange tout are OK. I guess we'll see. It's been a bit of a crappy year all round. Might not even get my allotment money back in veg savings this year. Boo.

suisidevw

Harvested 4 courgettes off 3 plants and plenty growing, blueberries are ready to eat and the toms/chillis/salads doing well in greenhouse. Pots ready to harvest as and when I think.

This is in cardiff BTW!

rabidbun

Harvested (Midlands) strawberries (if I cut out the woodlice and catch them pre rain rot ), raspberries (they regrowing for maincrop nicely), blackcurrants, broadies, mangetout and some garlic and herbs for drying. Going to use chive flowers this week in pasta recipe and also blueberries whn they ripen. Oh, and around 15 or so Red Alert tomatoes (early outdoors variety).

The stalled stuff is slowly growing vs slugs and snails eating growing tips apart from the squashes and courgettes which need hotter weather.

Good year for rhubarb (even the "dead" crown from last year that was dumped in a waste bag in the garage grew! O_o) but they new so cannot pick them.

janey183

most of what I planted got eaten, even in the greenhouse was quiet lucky with corgettes, although now all died, basil was eaten as soon I as planted out, 26 pots of chilli plants and I have one left (very sad about that) spring onions look pathetic.
Week off next week so Im just gonna empty all pots, store away, take remainder of whatever I have left and call it a day, ready for next year.
First year I have really tried and v dissapointed

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I am just wondering if people are giving their veggies any food, the rain is washing nutrients away. eg I have two lots of the same celery grown in two buckets of compost from the same bag and I forgot to give one of them some feed last time I fed. The fed one has shot up and is a good green colour, the other one is pale and short.

Also I did a foliar spray with epsom salt in water last week and it has mightily perked up a lot of plants. I fed my chillis a week ago and my 20 plants sitting outside in pots, are looking fantastic with lots of flowers and developing fruits. We have had lots of strawberries from the planters but they get strawberry food at every watering. My tomato fruits are plentiful and big, inside and outside. They are fed fortnightly and watered consistently every day, the amount depending on the sun

Runner beans and french beans have no pods and courgettes are few and far between, squashes are just sitting there. Cabbages are getting far too big for their boots and caulies are forming nicely. I am in SW and it hasn`t stopped raining

Ken68

Dosed everything with Liquid Seaweed the other dry day, Kittie.
Maybe do some growmore at weekend. I wondered how you did your celery.Will try that next year.
Raining here stair-rods.

peaceandfreedom

janey183 wrote: »

most of what I planted got eaten, even in the greenhouse was quiet lucky with corgettes, although now all died, basil was eaten as soon I as planted out, 26 pots of chilli plants and I have one left (very sad about that) spring onions look pathetic.
Week off next week so Im just gonna empty all pots, store away, take remainder of whatever I have left and call it a day, ready for next year.
First year I have really tried and v dissapointed

It IS very disappointing but I think everyone this year has had much the same experience, so I hope you'll try again next year.

What ate all your plants in the greenhouse? And what killed all your chilli plants?

My spring onions look pathetic as well but I hear there is better weather on the way - I still live in hope that some crops will come good before the autumn.