What has grown well this year??

[rustylady]

Well, I think it's now the end of the growing year - very cold today. Potatoes and beans did really well. Tomatoes rubbish, chillies middling well. All squash (courgettes, butternuts and pumpkins) utter rubbish. Strawberries fantastic - trouble was the slugs, snails and woodlice were getting to them faster than I was. Raspberries newly planted, but still picking a few till 3 weeks ago (no idea what variety). Root crops rubbish, except beetroot which were started off in cell trays and they were really good.

[andrewo]

Sweetpeas, clematis have romped away. My peas did well and so did my spuds, my toms have been a wash out but apples, plums have been in abundance. Raspberries did well, strawberries not so well - so they have been pulled up and burnt - ordered new plants. Cabbages did great, leeks failed. All in all though it hasn't been a great year, started warm, went wet, went hot, flooded and then went warm again, seen alot of whitefly and midges and alot of fungal diseases.

[Hazel at the Hill]

Not having much to compare it with, nonetheless, our first year has been like this in terms of the exceptionally ace, and catestrophic flops. All others pretty much as good and tasty as you'd expect.

Especially fab and better than expected - runner beans, parsnip, sweetcorn
A crashing disappointment - tomatoes (blight), squash/courgette, carrots (carrot fly), onions (eelworm)

[moggssue]

Seems our experience of succeses and failures varies greatly - my successes in my first year so nothing to compare them against, hence 'success' is a relative term, have been carrots, caulis, beans, courgettes and most herbs. Failures have been tomatoes, onions, garlic, chillis, cabbage. Reasonable crop, so since this my first year I count a success but you more seasoned growers wouldnt, potatoes, lettuce early on then bolted and same for spinach, strawbs finished very early, peas and broadies, what I got were great but didnt go very far! About to start on the parsnips which germinated well following advice on here re kitchen roll and windowsills now looking forward to the taste test!!