What are you disappointed with?

[Chitfaced]

Hello

What's not going so well for you this year? For me:

Spring onions. They've been in pots for ages and never seem to get any stronger looking than one or two spindly little tufts. Infact they seem to be growing backwards! A couple of pots never germinated at all and have just gone all mossy on the surface. I probably over watered them.

Cucumbers - dullsville. I should have kept them indoors as they are growing about a centimetre a week at the moment, look a bit pale and one of them gave up the ghost altogether. It was overtaken by a radish. How embarrassing is that? reminds me of the days I used to drive a Smart car and got overtaken by a hearse once.

Beetroot - the ones I sowed directly into the ground are doing OK but the ones in pots, pathetic. Spindly little shoots with brown leaves and have barely grown in a month. PAH to beetroot at the moment.

[scarey55]

For me it's carrots. I have tried and tried (and will keep trying) but they never seem to amount to much for me

[Jardiniere]

Potatoes.- growing Charlottes again in a new space but they look very poorly.
Broad Beans - crop was lousy this year. All finished two weeks ago.
Radishes - rubbish.....

but everything else is fine and the soft fruit is miraculous!

[Pies]

shallots,tried overwintering them without sucess.Wont try that again

[zazen999]

White rot and onion fly on onions and leeks.

Can't say any more about those as I'd get banned....but I'm not happy.

Some beans I was given just won't germinate - 2 varieties; I've tried most ways and now I'm bringing in the big guns and putting a couple of seeds in a heated prop to try and crack them open.

The potatoes; are very very slow this year - probably from the long dry spell when it would usually rain; and we have no spare water so they just have to stick it out themselves. Gave them a [safe] manure mulch, some comfrey chopped as a mulch and straw over the top - to see if that will kick them on a bit [and then t rained so fingers crossed].

Apart from those - and the sweetcorn just seeming to be stuck - everything is ok and the fruit is just starting to ripen now so hurrah!

[Chitfaced]

Scarey55. Carrots - I've grown autumn king in pots which I realise now is a bit silly as they're meant for growing big, not the little sweet ones I would have liked. I have not pulled any yet so not sure how successful I have been

[taff]

peppers, tomatoes, chillies. They're all just sulking away. And cucumbers. My father has had 6 or 7 off his one plant, my three plants aren't even 10 inches high yet. And he's in deepest darkest coldest wales. Pah!

[Rabidbun]

Cucumbers and melons. They've not died yet, which is good for me, but neither have they exactly flourished. Everything's behind though for me, even the courgette plants nearly died, from just using tapwater I think...

My large climbing peas are still only a foot or two tall (eight foot to go), a fair few bean plants got eaten by a giant snail due to them being so slow to get off the ground and lots of the dwarf ones came up stunted (not helped by the blackbird searching their roots for worms) and warped somehow.

Bit of a weird growing season for me.

I am also disappointed with my sparrows, as they've eaten my yellow podded mangetout plants, which have now stalled (perhaps unsurprisingly as they keep getting leaves removed and growing tips pecked out) and are looking unlikely to give me the seed I need to grow them properly next year. Grrrr.

[Pompeylottie]

Lots of things this year
- strawberries - apart from the first pickings most have been stolen,
- asparagus - same - stolen,
- carrots - sparse,
- runner beans - some sort of maggot in the beans meant about half didn't come up or died after coming up.
- cherries - lots blown off the tree and most of what's left have split after the heavy downpours last week.
- plums and apricots - very little fruit on the tree. .......I could go on!

[Helgalush]

Aubergine - should have left it in the sunny porch like I did last year...what made me think it would grow outside?!

Courgette - they dont like me.

Spinach - I never get to it in time before it flowers

Strawberries - not much fruiting this year, and they were first-timers last year and I have been feeding them

Everything else is pretty much ok. The only thing that is growing excellently with little intervention from me is a bean plant that a friend gave me that I dont have space for which is commandeering the garden!

[Chitfaced]

ROCKET! I forgot about the rocket. It's bolted. All of it.

[Pompeylottie]

I forgot the broad beans - all eaten by rats - in the middle of the patch the rats have made a dining room and have eaten everything and discarded the pods.

[Germinater]

Don't worry about the spring onions chitface I planted mine in feb and had the same disappointment as you they take ages to grow but then all of a sudden last few weeks they have all started to grow and swell .didn't realise they do actually take a long time to grow..I thought are spring onions il plant them and theyl be ready by end of spring but no they actually take about 20 weeks to mature ..
My big disappointment has got to be strawbs this year .got fifty or so plants and thought I'd be inundated with them but about 30 have been very poorly and have only had maybe 4 or so a day rather than the punnit a day I told the misses we would get ..but hay if growing your own was to easy we,d get bored of it .

[Hanna]

one pot of rocket, almost lost all hope...spring onions that look more like chives....and a sweet bell pepper plant that i swear is getting smaller and smaller....but everything else touch wood..is doing ok! x

[Creemteez]

Red onions bolted to a man. Worried about my garlic as it is looking distinctly "rusty", but otherwise not bad so far.....