What are you disappointed with?

[Potstubsdustbins]

Had trouble with my early spring onions but apart from that things are going very well (fingers crossed).

I feel for those new to growing this year as it has been a strange year for weather. Hot spring with no rain in parts and now a June thats more like April.

Colin

[binley100]

Carrots. They either don't germinate or get eaten as soon as they do.
Spring onions .....last ditch attempt then I give up
Peas ....keep getting eaten even with netting
and whatever's been feasting in my brassica bed......

[Chitfaced]

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 .

Thanks Germinator, very reassuring! I thought they should be quick too.I never fail to be surprised by how things really are compared to how they tell you it's going to be!

[CaroltheCarrot]

Beetroot is rubbish this year, last year had picked and pickled within 6 weeks not a hope this year,
pots are poor
cucs are having a laugh,a sarcastic one
great crop of peas from the tunnel but everything is so slow and pathetic

[Germinater]

That's fine don't worry chitface all will be fine I'm sure ..when you guna update yOur blog love reading it and can't wait to see how everything is growing in your garden..nuther bid to please last one was very good..

[Chitfaced]

That's fine don't worry chitface all will be fine I'm sure ..when you guna update yOur blog love reading it and can't wait to see how everything is growing in your garden..nuther bid to please last one was very good..

Updated it just today :-) Next video coming probably when I do my first potato furtle next week!

[Germinater]

Brill will look forwad to it.must go and have a read now ...

[taff]

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

but you can sucession sow with it, it grows like mad, so sprinkle some seeds in some modules, and wait for it to pop up. it will bolt, but the trick is to sow it little and often so as soon as it bolts, pull it up and sow some more. or as has been said, leave it to self seed. I've had rocket that's been frosted over and lived until late november before.

[perkin]

Peas - had one harvest before they gave up.
Spinach - bolted the moment the sun came out.
Melon - let's just say my hopes are not high

[Ananke]

All 4 courgettes died soon after planting out, one of them was my fault, broke the stem planting it. Dunno what was the problem with the others.

Think my potatoes have blight, 4 plants were affected on my last visit, will see what damage there is tomorrow.

Greenfly started to decimate my peppers and basil but a garlic n water spray seems to have put a stop to that.

Onions don't look like they are going to come to much this year.

Can't end on a negitive note ...so ... on the bright side, my herb patch is fantastic

[Florence Fennel]

Peppers, chillies and aubergines don't seem to be making any growth, strawberries too young to produce much and I drowned half my tomatoes. It is usually my bras I complain about, but they are all flourishing (she says touching a very large piece of oak).

[chris]

Out of a packet of ying yang beans, I've had 2 germinate (this is after chitting them, too!). I won't be buying eden project seeds again.

[zazen999]

Out of a packet of ying yang beans, I've had 2 germinate (this is after chitting them, too!). I won't be buying eden project seeds again.

I think I have yin yangs in my box; and I'm in cardiff today......where shall I leave them for you?

Facebook me if you want some. But make it snappy!!!

[Two_Sheds]

My disappointment this week? The Clarion lettuce that's supposed to resist bitterness. Well guess what? It's even more bitter than the Winter Gems that are now bolting

[StephenH]

Toms: total failure. Though I started them off nice and early, they struggled, and were only at the two-true-leaf stage when they should've been flowering, so I had 'em all up and used the ground for other stuff.
Also, my achochas - member of the gourd family which I am trying for the first time this year - are refusing to put on much growth, though they're supposed to be rampant.