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

[Newton]

A week or so on......

Doing well......tomatoes. Marmande, black russian, muskotka and GD. Chillis. Hot wax, padron, cayenne.
Peas, strawberries......a punnet a day! Radishes, lettuce.

Coming on.....nicely. Pak choi, beetroot, broadies, blackcurrant, runners & french.

Coming on slowly......courgettes, brassicas, raspberries, sweecorn, fennel onions

Pak choi beasties have all but gone away.....

Weeds haven't..........







Struggling......raspberries,

[JamesM]

Just resown parsley and rosemary- just can't seem to get it together this year! My lawn is a disgrace buyt but then again so is everyone else's so never mind!

[Rhona]

Doing good - sweetcorn, tomatoes, courgettes, shallots, garlic, blackcurrants, lettuce, raab, mange tout, rocket, aubergines, peppers and chilies.

Doing bad - PSB (dire), most of my pumpkins so far, strawberries at lottie, though home ones are ok, all fruit trees 'cept pear.

[divvy]

Going well , tomatos , runner beans , covered in flowers , snap peas , peas , french beans , spinich , corgettes , raspberries , never seen so many and they are massive ,cabbages , lettace .
Plodding on , carrots , raddish , peppers , hestia beans in hanging baskets
Not doing well , cucumber , in greenhouse and looking sorry for themselves , not growing , some leaves yellowing , 3 small cucumbers on them . chillies , tiny . strawberries , plants looking ok but not wonderfull and only the odd strawb. Going to try feeding that was posted on another thread , miricle grow once a week and tom food once a week on everything that produces a fruit.

[Potstubsdustbins]

Justgimme thanks for the kind words always glad to help if I can.

Well at last I have some spring onions still have no idea why the first plantings failed.

The rest as really started to kick of now seems like we might end up with a good season in this neck of the woods, fingers crossed.

Colin.

[VirginVegGrower]

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?? ;-)

Roast, pulp and freeze into bags. Tomato chutney is another! We've all been there. I am down on my tomato plants this year - only 25! Couldn't get in or out the greenhouse last year. I grew 30 and have given away 5!:-)

[Florence Fennel]

My tomatoes are struggling, but you knew that already.

[binley100]

Doing well are
Runners (none last year )
Tatties
Tomatoes
Peppers and chillies
Aubs
Bored beans
Raspberries , huge and loads
Goosgogs (well those I didn't share with the pigeons)
Courgettes. squashes etc coming along nicely also celeriac and celery
Fruit trees apple, cherry and plum all dripping with fruit
Badly
Brassicas ......chuffin rabbit
Shallots and onions .......shallots not split very well and onions have had leaves noshed by something (no sign of wabbit there)
Parsnips, beetroot and carrots very slow to show but maybe now getting there

[Veggie Mackem]

It's my first year with a plot and have managed to construct 5 10'x4' raised beds since mid March so no Autumn prep had been done so I'm more than pleased with everything in there particulally the french beans, sweet corn and all alliums. The salad crops, turnips, beetroot, salisify and carrots are still quite young so a bit early to make a call. I can definatley say that the allotment experience is fantastic, wish i'd done it years ago.

[dannyj]

Long time since iv been on here


Going well is:
raddish
strawberries - already had a few from them
lettuce - gone mad im overun
potatoes - a first for me and really pleased so far
cucumber -in the greenhouse growing great and doubling in size daily
courgette - was in greenhouse but was too big so moved out - had 12 or so nice courgettes already


Not going well:

aubergines - they are in growbags in the greenhouse and have not really grown ?
beetroot - been a disaster with these this year one of my favorite veg too
pumpkin - im sure last time i grew these they was 4 times as big by now
sweetcorn - same as above only a foot tall at minute

what iv learnt this year:
*not to plant greenbeans too close to peas as they have been burried in pea leaves
*dont use growbags
*

[poppysocks]

Going well:
Onions, carrots, runner and broad beans, potatoes, mangetout, snap peas, tomatoes, cucumbers, parsnips, sprouts, cauliflower, strawberris, peppers and beetroot
Fair:
cabbage, melons and garlic
Poor:
Asparagus and peas
Haven't clue (never grown before):
Stripy egg plants and celeriac

[poppysocks]

Oh and forgot, doing really badly:
lettuce, rocket and radishes

[haza1981]

I was hoping this would have loads of pictures. I fear alot of my stuff may have been put in too late. Hoping it will catch up though.

My sweetcorn is starting to thicken up and my shallots are doing real well. Starting to get a few pumpkins shooting up after fearing the rats ate them all(found a pile of eaten ones) Strawberries are doing great but think I may need to cover them. Just sown carrots, peas and more pumpkins just incase. Chillies are being eated by greenfly so i'm spraying them with garlic and squashing the ones I see. got some cabbage in that has decent leaves. Onions are starting to grow. Still got a few unused beds that I need to weed and use but not sure what with yet. Cougettes are small plants but growing.

Thats about it from me. Few fruit bushes coming along and rhubard is huge but not ripe

[Kiwi_Soph]

Lettuce is the run-away winner at the moment, the cut-and-come-again stuff is growing faster than I can eat it (and I'm having it 3 meals a day!!). Herbs are doing well too, except for basil. Have sown some inside to see if it will make a difference and sowing right into the pot rather than trying to transplant.

Peas are doing well too, although it is hard to have the patience to not eat them right there in the garden as soon as the pods swell!

Tomatoes, courgettes are very bushy but covered in flower buds and some baby veg. Just impatient now for them to ripen up! Nasturtiums have recovered from an aphid attack and have their first buds. Eeep.

Carrots, radish and potatoes are taking an age to swell - lots of healthy green growth but still small under the soil.

Onions are the only ones that are really crawling. They are out of the ground but still teeny tiny.

[morverngirl]

Going well, mangetout,peas, broad beans, courgettes especially the yellow ones, gherkins, cabbage (hispi),french beans few ready to eat, potatoes -eating for 2 weeks now, tomatoes -2 ready for picking outside,all salad leaves, carrots,beetroot, calabrese really tasty. All making my meals really great
Not so well melon and cucumbers
My first year on plot so very happy , I'll keep on Moon Planting