What's doing well....and what's not!

[JamesM]

Going well: Spinach, spring onions, bush tom, chillis, lettuce, basil

Sorting themselves out now: cucumber and courgettes amongst other bits i'm not so worried about

Being a pain: parsley!

[Zenithtb]

Gladly, everything I have planted is doing well, though some too well! I planted about 50 lettuce, then used the 'cut occasional leaves and let the plant live' method. It worked too well, and they grew bigger and bigger, then bolted :-) Removed and planted 9 lettuce instead (3 of 3 types).

Melons are getting scary - planted a lot as really wanted them, and they all germinated. I never knew they could grow so big! So far several metres long and leaves 3 x the size of my hand!! I feel like Bedknobs and Broomsticks!

Tomatoes are now like a forest as grew loads, and 'harvested' several armpits. Now must have 100 plants and feel overwhelmed

About 75 sweetcorns, and carrots, cucumbers (which are being well behaved) sunflowers (taller than me) radishes (lovely!!), peas etc and more weeds than you can shake a stick at!

First year in this place, (over enthusiastic) so next year will tone it down a little...

Anyone got a use for (a predicted) 1,000 tomatoes per month?? ;-)

[Tiberius]

It really is good to hear other people are suffering from the recent high winds and lack of sunshine, I was begining to think it was just me!

Doing well - Tomatoes, sweetcorn, white salsify, onions, PSB, spinach, carrots, parsnips, potatoes, aubergines, radishes, calabrese, swede, peppers and chilli. The peas had an iffy start but have begun to finally flourish, I also have a second set ready to go in as I was that sure they were done for.

Could do better - courgettes (1st time I've ever had them so small but plently of flowers), barlotti beans and purple french beans (wind burn) but I have second sets ready to swoop in and save the day and the strawberries have only four flowers...not looking promising.

As for the cucumbers, they are either really making a concerted effort to produce something edible or just making an effort to show a dramatic vegetable death - either way I wish they would make their mind up!

[solway cropper]

After the lovely warm April we've had a cool, wet May which hasn't helped. Cabbage, onions and lettuce are storming away but most other things are a little slow. From the first early spuds I've lifted so far I'd say yields are down on last year but blackcurrants and cherries are laden with fruit. I think you'd be hard-pressed to find a year when everything gave a bumper crop as they have different requirements.

The little holes in pak choi are most likely caused by flea beetles - one of the reasons I gave up trying to grow the stuff.

see what I've been up to at
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[gillian62]

The little holes in pak choi are most likely caused by flea beetles - one of the reasons I gave up trying to grow the stuff.

I had that problem last year. This year I have got them covered in netting and so far they are growing ok & no holes.

[gojiberry]

Most stuff is growing very well and the plots are bulging at the seams. The only thing struggling are the climbing French beans and I should have held them back till this week. Some disappointment in potatoes as the winston have only produced very small plants(not given up on them yet ). Parsnips are doing exceptional.

Ian

[Jono]

Its my raspberries that I'm most worried about. Very small fruits, and lots of yellow leaves. Think its a mixture of lack or rain and not enough nitrogen in the soil.

Carrots are very slow this year for some reason.

Early potatoes are dieing already.

[solway cropper]

Carrots are very slow this year for some reason.

Mine too, especially those sown into the open ground. I think the soil was actually colder than I imagined early in the year. The container-grown ones have no problems but they were started in the greenhouse.

[Kittypickle]

Raspberries are heaving with small fruit, reminds me of 76 when we moved into our new house when I was a child . There was a raspberry patch with more raspberries than I have ever seen. Onions, shallots, rhubarb, strawberries, rainbow chard, briad beans doing well.

Spuds and Beetroot are OK, carrots slow. Yakon, cucs, courgettes, squashes, beans, sweetcorn only just out so not sure yet. Peas rubbish but Mange tout good. Blueberries all vanished after promising start.

Worrying amounts of red cabbage germinated under netting tunnel after sowing whole pack, did this last year with sum total of no red cabbages for Christmas dinner. Lots of kale seedlings too and DD's daikon just germinated.

Onions from seeds didn't happen.Oca needs to going ground, doing well in pots. Have two rows of parsnips in one plot, failed germination so far in the other.

[perkin]

Doing well - mixed salad leaves, spinach (though prone to bolting if I forget to water), sugar snap peas, purple mange tout, broad beans, butterhead lettuces, chillies, toms, peppers, courgettes, Chesnook Wight garlic, pear trees, strawberries, sage, blueberries, bindweed growing through the shed...

Plodding along - parsnips, melon, new Maynard cherry tree, apple tree, Ambassador peas, shallots, hooligan pumpkins, carrots, beetroot

Ground to a halt - butternut squash, Picardy Wight garlic, chives

[greencharlie]

Coming along nicely - Lettuces, broad beans, radishes, tomatoes, french beans, early potatoes, brussels, courgettes, butternut, aubergine.
Big fat disaster - chillis and sweet peppers (got to about 3" tall and seemed have stopped), pink fir apple potatoes (one pathetic little shoot coming up) leeks - something dug up and then sat on the first lot, second lot didn't germinate.
Could really do with some decent rain down this way - its bone dry.

[Neil Spencer]

Well i just signed up to the forum and am a new subscriber. My first year with a full plot, having played around last year on half a plot, only to then catch the bug

Going really well in 30cm raised beds:
Carrots, parsnips, lettuce (crisp head and kos), beetroot, radish, spring onion.

Also going well having germinated really well:
Swede, red cabbage, cucumber, tomato, early and maincrop potatoes, Tom fox pumpkin, Courgettes, onions and Garlic (from over winter)

Going well in the greenhouse soon for planting out:
Brussels, sprouting broccoli, Kale

Stuff im trying to catchup thanks to a batch of failed seed germination:
Tomatoes, chillis and sweet spanish peppers.

Runner beans doing ok but looking a bit windswept.

Peas and dwarf french beans are really slow though.

Absolutely no rain since 2nd week March on our site - very hard going to keep everything watered.

[Germinater]

Almost all I planted is gowing well..cues,broccoli Coli cabbage strawbs rasps leeks onions tattys peppers chillis courgettes toms salad leafs sprouts herbs been very lucky this year great weather shame not much rain at all but have been watering with hose so not to bad at all

[daisygrubber]

my strawberries are looking a bit sorry for themselves and my lettuces seem to have shriveled up with the hot weather yesterday.

Cucumber, potatoes, toms and peppers are looking good.

Runner beans, carrots and sweetcorn are starting to come through.

First year grower so i'm trying to get my head round it all.

[Mulchkin]

Going well: strawbs (after a shaky start!) - had my first symphony yesterday and wow - sooo much better than shop-bought . First few elsantas will be ripening soon :0)

Brocolli, onions, potatoes, radishes, asparagus (first year), swede

Not so well: Parsnips completely refused to germinate, peas only about 2 inches high even though they germinated weeks ago, aubergine got eaten by woodlice, dwarf bean leaves are yellowing, cauliflowers eaten by pheasants!!