Disaster Crops 2010

[Somersetveggie]

So far my only real disaster has been the peas - fab looking crop but they got pea moth, so I re-sowed about 6 weeks ago and fingers crossed this time it might be OK.
Potatoes (in potato sacks), cucumbers and tomatoes have been so so, all the beans, beetroot and courgettes have been good so far , but the butternut squash plants have got what appears to me (as a complete novice) to be powdery mildew and the leaves have gone yellow and have died; this could be a disaster crop in the making ?

[Plot10]

Brassicas:
-Cauli and sown brocolli went all leggy when sown in modules then died. Seeds sown directly in soil either didn't germinate or got munched as soon as they appeared.
- Swede (neeps) as above but I've tried a last gasp sowing more in hope than expectation
-Young brocolli plants did quite well but bolted while I was on holiday.
- kohlrabi went leggy and are hanging in there but not much swelling.

[Two_Sheds]

I haven't had any beetroot yet this year. It just didn't get going in the drought. I think I've lost a lot of celeriac too. Onions pitiful.

The strawbs weren't very plentiful either. Spuds fairly awful. I haven't eaten lettuce for weeks.

[Bren In Pots]

My failures been Aubergines I had 2 in the greenhouse border 2 in a bed outside and one in a large container on the patio and all I've had is pretty flowers, not one of them set.

[arpoet]

Calabrese has been a waste of space and gone to seed very fast so have cauliflowers.. tiny yellow things.
Early and second potoates great quality but low yealds.
Lost most of the over wintering broad beans in the frost and snow and second sowing not done much.
Onions not a patch on last year but should be ok in a week or so
beetroots very hit and miss.
roger.

[toastie]

Feeling sorry for you and all the things that haven't gone right but thankfully this year, apart from the blackfly getting my broad beans (first time I'd grown them too), everything else has grown really really well.

[binley100]

Runner beans - everytime they started to grow they got eaten off Now they seem to have got going again .......
BNS lots of growth but so far no fruit....they better get a wiggle on if they are going to produce anything
Beetroot seems to have come to a full stop.
Carrots either poor germination or slugs.........

On the other hand I do have plenty of courgettes and gherkins and more gherkins and even more gherkins ...

[Currysniffa]

I would call my first year on my lottie a success, everything apart from a dozen red onions a few cabbage and all French beans, has grow like mad and there's been a abundance of veg, beginners luck I guess really please with my efforts


Thanks to everyone for the advice and support!

[PAULW]

Broad Bean rubbish
Overwintering Onions rubbish lost over half of what I planted
Onions from seed not to bad
Runner Beans The frost took out the first planting and never got anymore to germinate
Spuds nice quality early's and second early's not much quantity
Spuds Maincrop lots of handy roasty type spuds but no big chip spuds.
BNT 1 squash from four plants
Peas quite good but nothing like last year
Brasicaes looking quite well just have to keep watering till this drought ends
Tomatoes doing well loads of cherry toms and the big toms just changing colour
Forgot the Carrots BRILLIANT the best and cleanest crop in 7 years.

[HeyWayne]

Sweetcorn has been rubbish for me. I have standard stuff and bi-colour. Both from donated seeds, that I might have forgotten to plant last year (can't be sure). The biggest plants are barely 5ft high and only a few cobs.

My apple tree has 7 apples at last count. It's a big tree - one that I pruned heavily over the winter. Hoping for more next year.

Peas. I forgot them - so can't really say they failed, more me really.

Broad beans - as with peas.

[hamsterqueen]

one measly runner bean!

salads failed to grow thanks to cats using raised beds as a dirt tray

peas --zilch

[pdblake]

Peas and broadies were a bit bad this year, runners aren't looking so good either.

[Rabidbun]

Lost a fair bit this year:

HSL lettuces - all eaten by a snail in one night at seedling stage.
Butternut squash (was a success but the 6 inch squash just turned a weird brown colour with mottled skin, no clue why)
Other squashes (I suspect they will get death by mildew before setting fruit)
Half of my chard bolted this year (the rest is possibly going to join them)
Red foot long pole beans (dead as doornails)
Around 20 percent of my overall bean crop before planting out
Half of my first batch of peas (bird damage)
Strawberries were sour as anything
Anything that flea beetles eat (have tried around five different odd varieties of things now and each looked like lace before having chance to try it)
Oh, and radish, the seeds for which I have now given away!

I think next year I am getting enviromesh, netting everything that moves and avoiding squashes for my own sanity.

[NewbieGardenerRow]

cabbages - full of holes despite covering with nets so not edible at all
Pak Choi - errr where did it go planted out in the garden??? in the emptied out potato sack seemed to be ok until I found 2 huge caterpillars on it this afternoon munching it all up....grrrr
Carrots - tiny in the pots but have overtaken and grown very fast in the garden!
Kohl rabi - only one looking normal so far the others either didn't germinate or have died off
Red Baron onions - very small and pathetic looking despite going great about a month ago.
Garlic - oops...planted entire bulb instead of splitting it up so that my fault.
Yellow scallop squash - I have 5 enormous plants but only one with female flowers at the mo.
Cauliflower - ermmm I think I have one very leggy one growing but its also been munched despite being covered
Broccoli - also holey but I have got some florets now so all is not completely lost despite the holey leaves and being covered in caterpillars

[womble]

Brassicas, yet again I struggle. Brussels in the middle of the lawn experiment have been a complete wash out, haven't grown at all and I will be pulling them up this week.
Russian red Kale, I think I planted out too early, it peaked and then got eaten by earwigs, then put on a load of new growth and then they all just up and dies, all the leaves just fell off rotten like. Strange.
Parsnips, despite doing everything right (several times) they are pathetic. And few in number.
Peas, pea moth. Another sowing at the start of June (for tall maincrops) has worked very well, no moth grubs.

Wasps and blackbirds have destroyed a few fruit crops, but we've still had enough to be satisfied.