I've never seen so many................or so few!

[veggiechicken]

I've never seen so many:-

Acorns (its like walking on ball bearings)
Whitefly in the Greenhouse. Had to defoliate all the tomato plants, never had to do that before, the plants normally keep cropping until December

and I've never seen so few:-

Courgettes. Its a very poor year, what's happened to the usual glut

[Small pumpkin]

I've had rubbish tomatoes but nothing to do with white fly.
With you on the courgettes. Very disappointing year.

[WPG]

I've never seen so many...

red admirals in autumn. Not sure why, but they seem to be everywhere at the moment.

earwigs. Ugh, they're hiding everywhere, especially in nigella seed heads, sweetcorn, and dahlia blooms.


I've never seen so few....

slugs. Weirdly, even though it's been rainy here all summer long, I've had virtually no slug damage to foliage, and no slug holes in the potatoes.

[Bigmallly]

I don't recall seeing any Ladybirds this year, maybe a reason for increase in whitefly .

[Guest]

I've never seen so many

self seeded achocha plants (no more seed sowing in future)
big fat Spanish slugs in my garden here
nettles in my garden. They really have gotten comfy.

I've never heard so many

friggin owls. If anyone has a shortage of them it is because they are here and competing to be the loudest. Surprised the muntjacs didn't join in. Yes, I have had a rubbish nights sleep (insert grumpy face)

[noviceveggrower]

I have never had or seen so many
Runner beans, kids can plant them again for me next year as they must have a magic touch.
Broad beans, again kids can plant those again.
Loads of conkers and acorns around here. So many local school kids haven't got all of the conkers yet.
Courgettes, bit sick of looking at them.
Sloes, in the hedgerow by the allotment there are loads
Wild blackberries were so early here and there were loads of them. A bumper year here.

I didn't have a single strawberry. Not one.
Blueberries. Not one.
Pinkberries. Not one.
Honey berries. Not one.
All had flowers but nothing came of them.

[Thelma Sanders]

I've never seen so many:-
Whitefly in the Greenhouse. Had to defoliate all the tomato plants, never had to do that before, the plants normally keep cropping until December

and I've never seen so few:-

Courgettes. Its a very poor year, what's happened to the usual glut

So many -
Blimming whitefly here is on the winter cabbage eugh!
So few -
Tomatoes have given up here, such grotty damp weather they all went down with Botrytis
Runner beans failed miserably, my fav veg as well *sad*
Very few courgettes here (but squash did quite well) - doesn't make sense, but that's just how it is

[Snoop Puss]

So many grey mealy aphids all over our autumn cabbage. Savoy cabbage too, so they're impossible to get rid of.

So few winter root veg. Mind you, it would have helped if I had sown them!

[Lumpy]

Thanks to NG who prompted my brain cell.............

Yep, the owls are hooting their feathers into submission.
The Spanish Slugs are piggin hooooooooge. The other day I thought one was a slow worm.
Weeds - nuff said.

What has not been so much this year is -

Ripe toms
Cabbage Whites
Leek growth
My enthusiasm.

[Bren In Pots]

I have never had so many Raspberries its been a bumper year for mine.

[Baldy]

>> blackbirds

<< berries

Could be a correlation...

[Mr Bones]

Never seen so many cucumbers, at times in summer we were giving away 25 a day and even now they're still coming.
Hardly any Turks turban squash though, just two small ones.

[bramble]

Never had so many Chillis and tomatoes this year.
Plums and blackberries in abundance.

Never say one ladybird the whole season.

[Greenleaves]

Never seen so many onions bolt....

[Snadger]

I've never seen so many:-

Acorns (its like walking on ball bearings)
Whitefly in the Greenhouse. Had to defoliate all the tomato plants, never had to do that before, the plants normally keep cropping until December

and I've never seen so few:-

Courgettes. Its a very poor year, what's happened to the usual glut

I've never seen so many courgettes!