'tis been a strange year............

[binley100]

What a strange growing year we've had. No glut of courgettes, beans after a shaky start went absolutely bonkers (especialy the frenchies) beetroot has been pathetic , cabbages ...spring cabbage I was still picking in July no sign of bolting. Summer cabbage I'm still picking now (very slow to heart up) ..Chillies are going crazy in the lottie gh but not at home which is more sheltered . Toms have been great at home inside and out. Cucumbers ..total waste of time this year not even a gherkin .Oh and peas .......well I've never had a crop as good before . Actually got bags of them in the freezer.
Finally onions ........those from seed were mostly ok but some seem to be in the process of splitting and those from sets came out the ground hardly bigger than what they went in ......But what I find really strange is that if you speak to someone else they've had the opposite ie no beans and fantastic beetroot .....

[veggiechicken]

I can truthfully say that I have had NO gluts whatsoever - not even of apples or raspberries and I usually do pretty well there. I can count the number of beans and courgettes on my fingers, tomatoes were very late, onions came to nought. OK I don't have an allotment but I usually manage to put something in the freezer - but not this year.
If I didn't know things could be better, I'd give up now
2012 has been written off, roll on 2013

[zazen999]

I've just written the same on one of my blogs.

[binley100]

*goes off to read Zaz's blog......


*comes back..............'tis not your linear one then ?

[rustylady]

It's been pretty rubbish for everything except broad beans here.

[veggiechicken]

*goes off to read Zaz's blog......

Have you found it.......?

[zazen999]

*goes off to read Zaz's blog......

It's my seed circle one. Nothing worth reading to be honest!

http://seed-circle.blogspot.co.uk/

[lottie dolly]

What is a glut,rubbish most things,toms and cues in the greenhouse started late,have had enough toms for 2 of us,not to give away,but each individual variety did not do as well as could have,the scatalon cooing ones were just perthetic in terms of quantity,but the cues have done bril,only yesterday i picked 4,some small ones on,so be interesting to see if they grow,it is double glazed with recycled glass,and thick polycarb on the roof,a lot warmer than the singles at home,roll on next year,

[veggiechicken]

Wish I hadn't read it. TBH! Now I'm thoroughly depressed

[binley100]

well lets hope 2013 is a better year all round.. Its been so disheartening to go to the lottie and find big slugs in broad daylight decimating squashes etc........

[horticultural_hobbit]

Have had a lot of lessons learned. Flukey onions and garlic, with odd shallots. had more success last year with one courgette plant in the garden, and a few bits from Jamies onion crate. This year was on a bigger scale, yes. Perhaps I should have been less ambitious, but had I been, I don't think I would have learned as much.

[Bren In Pots]

The only thing that's produced a glut have been my beans so that was good, plus the kales coming on well so will keep us in greens this winter.
I've only had one courgette out of my 4 plants and about the same from the cucumbers.

Next year will be much better

[VirginVegGrower]

It's been pretty rubbish for everything except broad beans here.

Snap but my summer fruiting raspberries are STILL producing?!? Do I understand this? No!

[scarey55]

The only things that were any good for me were broad beans and garlic - The garlic was the best I've ever had - oh, and figs but I think that was just down to the age of the plant.
I gave up fairly early on in the season - well, I had a noo camper to go and play in so I don't think I'm that representative but, here's to next year; onwards and upwards, I say

[hamamelis]

Garlic and I suppose peas were all that really did well.

My runner beans suddenly stopped after only giving me a few handfuls, and just as the masses of buds that developed for a second flush started to open, the plants got frosted. Bah. Frenchies did nothing much.

The courgettes as well were just starting to really got going when they got frosted, though I did get a few round ones from one plant, I literally cut the first almost reasonable sized one from the frosted corpse of the other plant.

My tom plants all had lots of lovely green fruit that turned black juuuust as they were ripening, and I picked a grand total of three ripe fruit from 6 plants.

The strawberries had a sudden weird late flush of fruit, after doing nothing all summer, I started picking the june bearing variety in the second week of september, and they're still kind of going now The slugs got so many of them that I still didn't get a lot though.

Got not a single plum, feel lucky to have got three winter squash, and I'm still hoping my parsnips actually have roots worth eating.
Roll on 2013!