What has grown well this year??

[FoxHillGardener]

Diana
I got them from my local garden centre - The Secret Garden in Crystal Palace - plug, plug - £1.49 for 10 tubers. Not very handy for you, but I've just searched out the packaging and the supplier is Taylors Bulbs, Holbech, Lincs, PE12 7PP. There's no website listed and I've not looked but they might have one

[JennieAtkinson]

Pigletwillie - 140 cobs of sweetcorn How many plants have you got. Are you stocking the local supermarket?

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Foxhill gardener, Taylors bulbs are commercial potatoes, onions and bulbs.
The minium order value for them is £400 so i don't think its really suitable

[BigstU]

My success story this year so far has been my garlic, however my spaghetti squash is doing very well and looks like producing a bumper crop in the autumn. Dug one of spuds up and from that they look like they're going to be a good crop too (king edwards).

Toms completely failed, carrots were poor and runner beans are struggling, I've had a few pickings but they're not to the usual standard.

Here's looking forward to next year

[FoxHillGardener]

Foxhill gardener, Taylors bulbs are commercial potatoes, onions and bulbs.
The minium order value for them is £400 so i don't think its really suitable

Ah. So maybe you could send a nice letter to The Secret Garden, Diana, and see if they'll post some to oyu next year

[User Removed]

Many garden centers online retail stores and websites that sell potatoes and almost 85% buy their potatoes from Taylours as there is'nt that many suppliers of things like that. Go to a few garden centres and look for them, most will have king edwards potatoes. If not look on some gardening sites in febuary and they will be on their site
Adam

[cherry]

First message I've placed,so bear with me.
I planted several different strengths of garlic, both in pots and in the ground last November. Have had very different results, some superb size bulbs and some totally insignificant ones. This is the fist time I've attempted garlic, anyone have any suggestions for some consistent sized heads.

My cucumbers have been superb, corgettes coming out of my ears, carrots and beans doing well. My peas were terrible.

[sewer rat]

Hi Cherry and welcome to the 'Vine
What varieties of Garlic did you plant. There are two types - softneck garlics and (surprisingly enough) hardneck types. The softnecks are the ones that you see in supermarkets and are usually imported from countries with hotter climates than our own, and these tend to have smaller cloves, whereas hardnecks are bigger cloved and more suitable for this country's weather.

[NOG]

For me:

Strawberrys, Onions, Corn, Peas, Artichoke, Chineese Lanterns, Cuecumbers, Toms, Potatoes.. Better than last year.

[blossom]

My first year of gowing.
Pumpkins seem to be doing well, along with patty pan squashes.
Lettice has done ok and tomatoes are doing very well.
I got a fair few shallots, but I'm not sure if they count as good or not, they are fairly small, but they did get planted fairly late.
Mange tout have been lovely, but maybe not as many as I would have expected.
Rocket potatoes have done well in pots.
Aubergines have flowers, but nothing more, same as my chillis.
Beetroot, only one survived and that doesn't seem to want to grow any more root. Carrots, well I have some tops but haven't noticed much under the tops.
Salad onions rubbish.
And Raddishes, most of them go to seed, but I have had about 3 (enough to decide I don't like them anyway).

[Beyoyock]

This is my first year of having an allotment and it is brilliant! So far we have had potatoes, silverskin onions (now pickling in the cupboard), carrots, peas, beans, lettuce, strawberries, rhubard chard, beetroot (also pickling at the mo), cauliflower and radishes. The parsnips, sweetcorn, peppers, pumpkins, cabbages and brussel sprouts are doing well, so far. Our only main disaster were some onions that bolted and went to seed. It is brilliant eating veg picked that day from the allotment - really looking forward to the sweetcorn!

[Mel]

This is my first year of growing veggies too.

Here's my success and failure report:

tomatoes - I have heaps of them, at varying stages of ripeness. Both my Gardener's Delight and Brandywine have done well - all outdoors.

peas and beans - I did sugar snaps and dwarf French beans, which both produced good sized crops. Some of the beans got some sort of fly on them but just picked them all before it spread.

carrots - I sewed them too thinly in too rich a soil, but I still got a reasonable crop and they taste superb.

courgettes - I only had about three off two plants, so not sure I can really count this as a success. However, the last one I had was enormous and they tasted and looked great. Unfortunately, the rest succumbed to some sort of rot.

potatoes - I have had a reasonable crop so far, but nothing exceptional. My first earlies were slightly bitter and my crop of Charlottes has been pretty small. Also, I've decided that as I only have a small garden, they probably aren't worth doing as they take up too much room and are cheap to buy. Next year, I'm going to try to grow some more unusual veg that you either don't find in the shops or are quite expensive.

In terms of failures, I had some beetroot from a seed swap that haven't fared very well but that's it really. I've got peppers, broccoli, squash, cabbage and parsnips still on the go. Mostly, these are doing well although the butterflies keep attacking so there may be no cabbage left soon.

[Limbury Lad]

As it was our first year we were delighted with anything we got and achieved all from seed.Peas were lovely but we did not do enough,beans the same,toms are slow but getting there. Spuds were a bit of a mixture ,leeks,spring onions,other onions,strawberries,courgettes (just keep on going!) sweetcorn still growing as are the aubergines, rhubarb slow but have started to water and we need a JCB to get our carrots out! blackcurrants were superb and are already made to jam. We have been busy and it all tastes great.
Roll on next year!
Limbury Lad

[MrsG]

First year of growing for me too. Didn't have a plan just bought packets of seed at random and chucked them in. Very bad site, is below blooming great big trees , so no great surprise that I have not enjoyed bumper crops.

peas not many but one row shaded by the second, duh need to place the rows the other way next year.

onions seem to be doing ok but far from big enough to harvest yet.

carrots failed to geminate, second lot are coming up but no sign of crops yet.

swedes planted late have come up and need thinning out

cauliflowers are late ones to over winter but seem to be doing ok

courgettes twelve plants and I manage half a dozen little babies every other day or so.... think maybe there should be more.

runner beans terrible... think something is eating the flowers cos theres lots of empty stalks...those that manage to grow, beans are setting in before the bean gets any lenght to it and the beans are very stringy.

leeks one patch doing well second patch looking rather weedy.

pumpkins are still only flowering with male flowers

tomatoes are still green

Strawberries in a basket on the patio are doing brilliantly, and blow the fact they are first year plants cropping well and I am enjoying them.

potatoes I didn't plant but they have grown from peelings or sprouted ones thrown in an earlier compost heap that I put too many leaves in and so just spread on the ground. will dig them up soon. so they are another bonus

the other product doing well is my homemade compost, I have four big black daleks which at least will feed the ground for next years crops.

[maxine]

My first year for growing vet.
Runner beans doing good
Lady Christel potatoes were loverly.
Tomatoes, lots and but all still green.
Strawberries not too bad, but not as many as i`d have liked.
Mint did well.
Iceberg lettuce, only ended up with a couple but they were nice.

Hope to grow sum more different veg next year now i`m a bit more confident