How have your crops been this year?

pineapple

mary-op wrote: »

Tomatos............growing lovely we thought then checked this morning - blight !!! Hopefully we've caught it early enough to save the fruit:o

Blight here too. They were planted out after that early sun we had and just before it started to rain every day. :mad: I've been removing affected leaves but one day I'm going to end up with bald plants
How do you treat blight?

pineapple

danlojo wrote: »

Runner beans - fabulous. Lots for everyone at Sunday dinners (slugs got my first batch even after slug pellets and double sided tape was used around the containers)

The trick is to creep out with a torch at dead of night and sling all the slugs and snails into next doors garden

joedenise

Not had a lot this year except French beans. Manged to get a few peas into the freezer as well a enough for a couple of meals. Potatoes didn't do well at all, enough for a couple of meals. Rhubarb not as well as usual but only have one crown. Have got a couple of kilos in the freezer which I'll use to make rhubarb and ginger jam.

Denise

moodydonkey

Have got six bags of toms in the freezer to go into spag bols etc, our beefsteak were a disaster. Have had cucumbers coming out of our ears! Two marrows which were beautiful, raspberries were good. Runner beans have been our best yet. Nurturing three melons in the greenhouse that are looking good. Nowhere near self sufficient but we have had some lovely carrots too.
Seems to have been quite hard work for relatively little return this year.

Leif

Poor. All my sunflowers, grown for fun, became slug food. My chillis were lovely when put out, then reduced to ragged messes by gales, rain, and dull skies. Two camellias died. Courgettes have struggled, now producing, but the fruit are rotting from the end. Tomatoes were bursting with the rain. I got maybe 3 or 4 punnets from 3 bush variety plants, not so good. Chinese cabbages all became slug food. They left the chard, which I discovered I did not like. The irony. Slugs have good taste. Hohum.

I gave my neighbour a courgette plant and a tomato plant. The courgette planted in soil is a triffid, producing loads of courgettes. The tomato is in his green house, was 4 times the size of mine, and laden with cherry tomatoes. His potato plants were lovely looking. His lettuces fine. I can only assume that his garden is more sheltered than mine. I am on the side of a hill, with the garden exposed to winds. The neighbour to one side said her 5 year old apple and plum trees were either dying, or very poorly, due to the weather.

ado

Early and main crop potatoes were OK.

Carrots are short and miss shapen.

Strawberries OK but my autumn ones are none existent.

Tomatoes have just started bearing fruit so they're all green so I don't think they'll ripen.

Loose leaf lettuce was great.

Shallots were also very good but mu onions were rubbish.

Parsley all went to seed very quickly...but on the bright side I'm collecting some lovely fresh seeds for cooking.

All my rhubarb are new plants but they have established pretty well so they should be good next year.

Broccoli - rubbish

Chard - eaten to death.

Peas - OK

Radish - good crops.

Chives - no matter what I tried they didn't grow.

Mint - OK

Basil - not very good - very slow growth.

This was my first year growing veg so I've got loads to learn and I haven't planted anything for winter or much in the way of successional crops.

wallbash

Tomatoes have just started bearing fruit so they're all green so I don't think they'll ripen.

Weather looks warm this week , will do wonders.

Fosterdog

Not had a good year at all.

Potatoes - all got blight
Tomatoes - plants growing well but hardly any fruit
Peppers - same as toms, plants grew well but only a few peppers grew
Radish - first crop were great second didn't come to much
Runner beans - failed miserably nothing from them.
Apple trees - Four apples between two trees started three were rotten one still growing. They are only in their second year though.
Cherry tree - nothing
Plum tree - nothing
Carrots - doing well, good size and great taste
Parsnips - looking good but not quite ready yet
Raspberries - only just starting to fruit
Tayberries - only just starting to fruit.
Strawberries - first plant all turned to mush, rabbits ate my six new plants.

We really hoped for more this year, it's our second year of growing and hoped we had fixed our mistakes from last year. Although the weather certainly didn't help we can hopefully improve for next year.

interstellaflyer

Tomatoes doing pretty good this year
Runner Beans, best so far and we started with fewer plants.
Carrots were good
Purple Sprouting, good
Leeks doing well
Cauliflowers failed
Cucumbers not good
Had a nice crop of Strawberries
Brussel Sprouts not looking great but we should get a crop
Lots of Damsons
Lots of Hazelnuts and walnuts showing, however, the squirrels usually get to them before we do.

SailorSam

pineapple wrote: »

The trick is to creep out with a torch at dead of night and sling all the slugs and snails into next doors garden

I tried that last night, the guy next door was out there at the same time with his torch and throwing the snails from their side into my garden.