Help - it's all going wrong!

[Farmer_Gyles]

everything looked fine this time last week ..... but now .....
spinach has all gone to seed

some of the onions now have 4ft leaves with a ball at the top - looks like they're going to seed - are the onions ok? do i pull those ones up now?

green brocolli now has yellow flowers in the green brocolli bit - gone to seed? unusable now?

pea plants all turned yellow, withering and dieing - wish i'd known they'd die off so suddenly as i'd have sown more ready to go in the ground now

broad beans and runners have blackfly - sprayed with pesticide (for fruit and veg)

tomato plants going yellow - probably a bit dry - looks like drip feeder in greenhouse ran dry in 3 days instead of the 7 days it took before ....

garlic stems all disappeared - eaten by slugs?

gooseberries now have sawfly - leaves disappearing, but gooseberries still pickable later (garlic was around gooseberries but garlic gone ...)

loganberries shrivelled - didnt expect them to ripen and die so quickly

on the plus side, 3 lovely caulis and plenty of other stuff growing nicely .....

[shirlthegirl43]

Oh dear, harsh learning curve sometimes!

Onions that are bolting can be lifted and used, they won't store. Brocolli that has started to flower can taste bitter. If possible, try cutting out the flowering bits and see if the rest of the head is useable. The plants should put out sideshoots after the main head has been removed so don't despair. Rest of stuff I can't help with much but are you sure your peas are done? Are they still flowering and just need a bit more/less water or a boost of feed or something?

[zanussi101]

my garlic stems disappeared last year too but they came back much better this year so if you're able to keep them in the ground you should. I picked some a few weeks ago, as we had tenants moving into the house, and they were small but proper looking (the garlic, not the tenants!).

[Farmer_Gyles]

cheers guys - will cut the brocolli - the garlic may be small, but i want it this year so will pull it as it is - didn't notice flowers on the peas, so will sow more now anyway ....

[HeyWayne]

I feel your pain dude - I have several things that seem to be having a tough time. Dead melons, one Achocha out of four surviving, runners that keep dying, peas that don't seem to want to grow much more than about a foot - all yellowing. Three failed raspberry canes (six planted), onions bolting all over the place (luckily seems to be confined to the reds), sick looking squashes, two rhubarb plants of five planted...

Fun eh?

When I had blackfly on my runners last year I just nipped off the bit they were on, and it seemed to sort it.

There's always next year eh?

(actually - I've quite a few things that aren't doing too bad at all, just kept them quiet).

Hope things pull round for you dude.

[Two_Sheds]

Sounds like you're having a normal gardening year!

[Flummery]

Yep. Been there, done that. It's annoying though, but often the results of your efforts are out of your control. You can only give the plants the best conditions but then the heavens open or there's a drought. These weaken the plant and the diseases and insect attacks start.

Constant vigilance, as Mad-eye Moody would say!

[Farmer_Gyles]

the peas have definitely had it - have cut the brocolli head, some smaller shoots, picking gooseberries and cutting caulis today