personality and plant compatability?

[lindyloo]

i wonder whether we as personalities, have a compatability with certain plants. it just strikes me that i have success with some plants and not such good results with others- wondering if other people have noticed the same. for instance, i am consistant in not being able to grow gooseberries, in different places and different years, but they never do well- this year my nieghbors plants are laden, my plants have 1 lonely goozegog between them! this also extends to redcurrent- it has shriveled and died for no apparant reason.

[taff]

carrots.
never had any, and i mean, any, success at all.

[Rabidbun]

Raspberries. Ugh. The canes arrive alive and never see the light of day again. Oh, and curcubits that require greenhouse growing.

Chillies seem the most successful - I wonder if that's good or bad for my personality.

[scarey55]

carrots.
never had any, and i mean, any, success at all.

Yup, me too. Even if I manage anything they are too small to be a mouthful. Ever hopeful though, I have planted a row this year

[Flummery]

Swede. And you wouldn't write home about my carrots or garlic either!

[kirsty b]

Am very hit and miss with veg, but love growing herbs and flowers from seed. Perhaps I deliberately pick easy ones but I get so much pleasure from them.

Well chuffed to see honeysuckle I bought as a very spindly thing about 3-4 years ago now much fuller and covered in flower buds for the very first time

[Snadger]

I had ONE good year of garlic about five years ago but have had no joy with it since!
Its not for the want of trying though! I've planted in spring/summer and autumn. I've used shop bought and 'proppa' stuff from the GC. I've planted at various depths, I've started in modules, direct sown but still fail miserably!

Wish I could remember what I did RIGHT that year?

[northmaid]

On to my third sowing of beetroot, can't get the darn things to grow at all, and with flowers it's carnations that don't like me so they sulk and die.

[jackyspratty]

Clematus. Love them, would love to grow them but have never manged to get one established. Even when my mum plants them for me and shes good, they die on me

[OllieMartin]

Hamsters, had 2, they both died within a week. Do they count?

[shirlthegirl43]

Dunno what this says about me but - my nettles and brambles are super duper this year!! So are my garlic

[Patchninja]

I thought I could grow garlic until I moved here - you should see the fresh garlic sold in the markets at this time of year. Things of great wonder and beauty.

[chris]

lindyloo - dig up and swap your bush for theirs !

sorted

"Bloomin birds eating all the berries!!"

[HeyWayne]

I'm too lazt to grow anything that takes a bit of looking after. S'why I'm rubbish with brassicas and salad.

[lindyloo]

chris marks- thier bigger than me!!!