Is it a late season?

[HeyWayne]

Granted I've not been doing this grow your own business very long, but this year it seems like everything is taking ages to get going. We're well into July now and I've only had a few things ready, even my autumn-planted onions/garlic aren't quite ready yet.

Am I just being impatient?

That, or I'm rubbish at this.

[piskieinboots]

Yes
Yes
No
...next?

[Hans Mum]

as above, i thought it was just me but now dont feel as anxious............

[Two_Sheds]

I've been thinking things are slow too, but looking back over my gardening diary (since 2004) some things are actually earlier than last year.
I think we're always impatient!

[lynda66]

i'm getting fed up, everything of mine is the same size it was a month ago ...... ie an inch tall, my flowers are romping away, but the veggies i'm giving up hope of ever getting anything more than a couple of leaves

[snuffer]

Some things do seem slow this year but location seems to be playing a part in that. I don't just mean north, south, east and west. Crops in my plot at home are doing well. Harvesting; potatoes, courgettes, broad beans and peas. On the lottie, which is only a few hundred yards away things are much slower to mature. I've had pumpkins, butternut and marrow on the lottie and they've hardly grown at all since being put in the ground. The same crops in the garden are much more advanced. I'm not sure but I believe crops are doing better in the garden because it is much less exposed than the lottie.

[Flummery]

Most things are early for me. It really depends where you ar in the country and what your weather has been like. That's why the Brits talk about the weather so much. It really can be different just a few miles away.

[Headfry]

My onions have split some almost into four sections.....its all this rain!
Even the wildflowers a mixed up with the late spring geraniums flowering with the early autumn scabious!
Vile weather go away! please

Snuffer - could it be more sheltered at your home? the wind is trashing lots of veg up on my plot!

[Winged one]

I am a bit like snuffer - everything seems to be very slow anyway, but I am actually getting things at home but very little at the plot. THe single courgette plant at home has already given 4 baby ones, and I will have 2 full sized ones this weekend - but I don't even have baby finger sized ones on the 3 on the plot yet (and all were sown on the same day). Pumpkins and squashes are also barely crawling to a start, even the summer ones, but the single summer one at home should be giving its first squash this weekend as well.

Although, the spring onions on the plot do seem to be getting on better than those at home - that's not saying a lot about either (miserable - every single sowing of them!!), but the ones on the plot do seem to be slightly fatter than the ones sown a month or so earlier at home.

I am still going to the veg shop for a large bag or two of goodies every week and I really was hoping for more home grown by this stage this year.

[HeyWayne]

Part of the reason for my anxiety is that we were talking about when we go on holiday in September, which I thought was ages away - but is in fact just over 8 weeks away!!!

Then, reading some books at the weekend and the general concensus is that harvest time is around September. I'll have nothing ready at this rate.

*takes deep breaths*

*wooosahs*

[Nicos]

Just which season are you referring to Wayne???

I'm well ahead for Spring!

[HeyWayne]

Just which season are you referring to Wayne???

I'm well ahead for Spring!

It'll be the season to be jolly before long! Fa la la la la, la la la la!

[zazen999]

Are you sowing for next spring yet? My 2009 onions have now been sown and are doing nicely.

If you succession plant, there are loads of veg that you can harvest throughout...

Looking back at some of the posts from last year, some people's tomato flowers were only just out mid july...so I think we are doing ok.

And alot can happen in 8 weeks.

[lynda66]

i think i have already sown for next spring cos i'm sure nothings going to produce anything by september

[di]

trying to see the positive side I'm hoping to get an extended season & with a bit of luck some of the stuff we've been a little late sowing may have a chance of growing.?may just be my optimisic side telling me lies but I'm sure it stays warmer for longer into autumn now??