This years results so far

[Penellype]

A very mixed year here and easy to get fed up with it, but I have had plenty to eat and give away so I can hardly grumble.

Veg:
Beans (French) - excellent crop
Beans (Runner) - slow start but doing very well now
Beetroot - very good
Broccoli (PSB) - ok, but got aphids and bolted early
Brokali - inedible due to aphids
Spring cabbage - did well but ready when I had a glut of cauliflower, so most got wasted
Calabrese - overwintered inedible due to aphids, summer very poor, small heads
Carrots - some germinated poorly, some bolted, some seem rather small, most are ok
Cauliflowers - excellent
Celeriac - being eaten by slugs, unlikely to get a crop
Courgettes - very prolific
Cucumbers - huge crop
Florence fennel - mostly eaten by snails, 2nd sowing is germinating for baby veg
Kale - starting to get eaten by snails
Kohlrabi - split after rain, being eaten by slugs
Leek (summer) - good until attacked by leek moth
Leek (winter) - overwintered were good, this year's crop look ok at the moment
Lettuce - generally good
Onions - a disaster as they got white rot (good big onions)
Parsnips - overwintered were very good, this year's look fine
Peas - very good crops, some pea moth damage
Peppers (indoors) - excellent
Potatoes - mostly good crops, a few with hollow heart (too dry)
Romanesco - not ready yet but growing well
Spinach - excellent spring crop, baby leaf crop doing well
Swede - comprehensively awful
Tomatoes - indoor crops good, outdoor ones very slow to ripen
Turnips - ok, but most bolted due to being ready at same time as cauliflowers

Fruit:
Apples - dreadful, got bitter pit (too dry) and only a few are edible
Apricot (container grown) - flowered but no fruit as spring frosts killed the blossom
Blackcurrant (container grown) - very poor
Blueberry (container grown) - appalling crop - a few dozen fruit from 2 established bushes (very few flowers), very small fruit from new young bush.
Blueberry (pink, container grown) - decent crop from 2 year old bush, some tortrix moth damage
Gooseberries (container grown) - poor crop of small, tough skinned fruit. Attacked by sawfly
Melons - very promising crop of decent sized melons which will hopefully eventually ripen
Raspberries - started very well then attacked by birds then raspberry beetle and finally destroyed by wasps
Rhubarb - excellent
Strawberries (containers) - mostly very poor crops, problems with tortrix moth and slugs
White currants - excellent crop

[MarkPelican]

Like many on this thread its been a mixed year, some things (French Beans, Apples, cucumbers) doing far better than previous years and others (tomatoes) struggling to make it feel worthwhile.

However, knowing that next year will be different makes it all worthwhile.

[Mark_Riga]

A very good year for onions and garlic and leeks looking good too. Peas OK despite attack by pigeons.
Courgette slow to start but going well last few weeks, Glut of aubergines and sweet peppers now - just been looking at ways of preserving them. Looks like enough potatoes to see us through the year. Raspberries excellent with very little insect damage, could be because got no crop last year due to drought so may be a lot didn't survive. They are autumn variety so may be need to cut down completely after fruiting and clear ground whenever pests build up. carrots and beetroot ok. broadbeans good - dried for hummus and falafels. Hazel/cobnuts first crop ever about 10kg of nuts in shell and damsons/greengage from the hedgerows to make up for the plums. Plenty of apples, a lot of eaters misshapen though and also about 5kg of pears. Melons nowhere near as prolific as last year but picked first 2 last week and about 10 more developing.

Not so good: plums very few because of pigeons in spring (and wasps and maggots). Some climbing beans could be good if don't have any frosts this month and next. Butternut squash probably none, a lot of the plants just sat there for weeks then died but a lot of growth now so won't know till it dies off and can see what, if anything is there. Sweetcorn, got by rats again - why they can't just go at the stuff the farmer plants in the nextdoor field. Some still maturing but not hopeful will beat the buggers to it. Strawberries, got some early on but then a squirrel and some mice started to help themselves. I think I'm supporting most of the rodent population round about - I've seen a hare in the garden a coupe of times recently.

[Sweet savory]

Better than last year - peas, runners and climbing french beans, parsnips massive leaves hopefully equally impressive beneath, f fennel coming along nicely, gooseberries and rasps copious amounts, blackcurrants one bush but could do with another, psb was good, autumn cabbages leafing up, tomatoes all outside very good, shallots to make your eyes water and ok garlic, spuds in containers at home did well, courgettes tasty, lettuce good
Worse - carrots, good taste but poor germination, squash a few tiddlers i am nurturing, sweetcorn rubbish, onions went to seed, sweet peppers slow to ripen and attacked by snails i think,
Enough to work on for next season

[Vegi potager]

What I have had a lot of, I have had a LOT of! some a pretty poor showing...
Top contenders:
Tomatoes- Loads, have a freezer full of passatta, chopped toms and dried toms, green preserved toms in oil...
Cukes- pickled and preserved. 1st time growing so very pleased and even the ones that I missed a grew to whatever you call the cuke equivalent of marrows were still tastier than the supermarket.
various leafy stuff did well, lettuce, chard etc
good showing from the borlotti beans

Average garlic and spuds. Note to self MUST water spuds more in their bags. never going to get a decent baker otherwise.

What I was disappointed in this year was I only got about half as many cobra beans as the year before, and the broad beans were sacrificed to the aphid gods.
I was averaging a trombocino and a couple of other courgettes a week last year, this year I was lucky to get that per month. And I cannot get a cauli to head up for love nor money.

But still- have sorted out the seed mountain in the cardboard box, listed what I have left and have that on top of the seed catalogues that have been falling through the letter box over the last month. Saving them up for a cold rainy day when my hopes have risen and a fool myself into thinking I actually have green thumbs.

[ameno]

My beetroot has done very well this year, and I've had a bumper crop of plums. Blackcurrants and gooseberries, too.

I'm also quietly hoping for a good crop of sweet potatoes this year. They've put on masses of leaf growth - the ones in my conservatory have covered every available window, a quarter of the ceiling, and are currently colonising the outside walls, too, having escaped through every open window a couple of months ago. One of the pots already has a big tuber poking up out of the compost, and it's still only September. I won't harvest until at least early November.

[muck lover]

A real mixture of success and disaster for me this year:
Disasters first- cucumber plants shrivelled up after transplanting. Only one survived in a pot and I only got two cucumbers before it died when I was away for a week.
Cucamelon from seed is a spindly looking thing with no fruit.
Red onions from autumn planted sets all bolted.
AGAIN no cauliflowers( total ever grown by me = 1 which was an accident as I thought it was a cabbage and just stumbled on it one spring)
Peppers just flowering now so probably no fruit
Successes: soooo many French beans from polytunnel. Tomatoes great still coming. Carrots great in containers and in ground. Parsnips patchy but it’s my first time growing them and I think they will be usable.
Autumn raspberries rhubarb blackcurrants and two blueberry bushes( taken into polytunnel to fruit away from birds) good. Strawberries fruited well in containers in polytunnel but the Young Mucklovers did a lot of grazing out there so didn’t get as many as usual into freezer for compote.
Courgettes pumpkins and broccoli all prolific.
Broad beans were fab.
Ordinary brown onions not too bad Unlike the red ones.
Potatoes in containers and early varieties were good but maincrop in the ground were full of holes.
Garlic was fabulous in polytunnel and also outside.

[Mark_Riga]

Mainly beans

Not sure if this is the best place for this. I've now dried most of the climbing french bean Soissons.
The initial germination was quite poor (in trays). The pack contained 50 seeds. I planted 1/2 but then had to plant the other half also and ended up with a 13' row (26 plants) a bit later in the season than I would have hoped. The last few picked (28th Oct.) are just finishing off drying now on the kitchen table. Total crop of beans is just 2.0kg. I've kept 100 seeds for next year. These should have better germination and a 30' row should give about 5kg of dried beans I would hope.

[ameno]

Not sure if this is the best place for this. I've now dried most of the climbing french bean Soissons.
The initial germination was quite poor (in trays). The pack contained 50 seeds. I planted 1/2 but then had to plant the other half also and ended up with a 13' row (26 plants) a bit later in the season than I would have hoped. The last few picked (28th Oct.) are just finishing off drying now on the kitchen table. Total crop of beans is just 2.0kg. I've kept 100 seeds for next year. These should have better germination and a 30' row should give about 5kg of dried beans I would hope.

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Between my Coco blanc a rames French beans (14 plants), my Spagna Bianco runner beans (8 plants) and my Enorma runner beans (20 plants) I've had just under 5kg of dry beans this year.
Pretty good for a first try growing beans for drying, especially as the French beans and the Spagna bianco were sown late because the first sowing were all eaten.

I'll definitely grow more Spagna bianco next year. They were delicious and huge (much bigger even than butter beans). I wanted to grow more this year, but I ran out of seeds.